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As part of this agreement, AIC and Netarx will enter into an alliance agreement and continue to work together to jointly serve the IT and network communication needs of clients throughout the Great Lakes region. AIC will continue to provide IT staffing and application development services throughout this region and work in partnership with Netarx to augment its services and deliver on the collaboration, data center and network communication needs of its clients.
In other words, I've been packaged and sold to another company with an office far closer than Minnesota. Is this a good thing? I don't know. Considering how close I've felt I've been skating to an hours cut/paycut/jobcut, this may be a huge blessing... or not. It's impossible to tell how this will impact our department until we (rather than the home office) has some direct contact with our new owners. I can say, I'm disappointed at losing my health insurance - it was a really good plan. What will it be replaced with (if anything)? I don't know.
It's scary, kiddies... really fucking scary.
But, I'm really trying hard to leave it up to the Lord and the Universe to work it out to my benefit. Thing's have always worked to keep me out the gutter before now, so I just have to have the faith... and try not to puke everywhere....
Wish me good tidings and an extra dose of good luck over the next week.
Things have been on the stressful side lately. For the 4th, we had Tom's ex-wife, her new boyfriend, her two kids, his son and Tom's daughter over - yee-hah!
The out of towners (all but Tom's daughter) were with us for a week and it was actually a good visit. The kids were behaved for the most part, we got to leave them behind when we went to Bay City for the fireworks and I like Russ (the new boyfriend).
But all hasn't been rosy. I don't know the whole story, but Tom's daughter got into a knock-down drag out with her mother about I don't even know - but she was banned from the house until she called a few days later and apologized. She was supposed to go to Bay City with us, but refused to.
Then, we were supposed to have a new front door (the storm door) replaced, but the guy that was going to help us put it on didn't. It's still sitting in the living room in the box (where its been for two weeks), but the guy down the street is supposed to come over today while I'm at work and help Tom out with it.
I also desperately needed a partial roof replacement, and THANK YOU LORD, I was able to get a small loan to cover it.
But - at work, the things I've been dreading since the economic meltdown has come to pass. The number one client of our department (my boss tells me their contract provided 70% of our budget) has cancelled the contract they just signed a few months ago. They're moving their equipment by mid-August to their local site to make their IT in-house... but rumor has it, it's really to give a job to the slacker-son of the honcho there.
This is devastating to our department, and my prospects for staying employed.
This could not be more horrifying if she'd come in and plunged a knife in me. Unless there is a miracle, I don't see how my position will last through Christmas - it's that bad (just take a look at our stock price, ANLY, on any financial site to see how on the edge the company as a whole is skating). I'm am just scared shitless about what the hell I'm going to do in the near future - Michigan's job prospects are NOT promising and I'm sitting here with no certifications and no degrees. I never needed 'em.
Of course, we have a MSCE working as an Operator, so that wouldn't help anyway. She's said that unless you have ten years experience along with the Cert, you can forget about it.
So - I'm in Hell. Anyone want to adopt two gay men in their 40's? (He says with a weak and not so amused smile)
That's why I haven't been posting anything in the last few days - I've just been trying to absorb the shock and praying a lot - I'm trying to just give it to the Universe to work it out, but to say this is a stressful moment in time would be an understatement.
I'm still working on Spanderverse - sort of - I've got 5 chapters written and I know where I'm going - mostly.
There will be a Buffy and Angel review posted on Friday for Issue #5 of each. And, I might possibly get the WATCHERS review done on Saturday or Sunday for the first episode of S2.
- Mood:
scared
Why don't WE get new bath towels??
Whatever.
Also, on Saturday I'm having my parents for dinner (which I'm cooking myself, thank you very much). Tom (the 'partner') wanted to put it off, but I said no because I had this planned first... before the ex-wife's and daughter's visit. It annoyed me that a week before this big dinner, he suddenly wants to cancel it just because his family will be her a few days... did I make too much of this?
Well, it doesn't matter... dinner stops for no man (or women). Now, my parents have met Amanda before and she visits with them at Christmas and such so it doesn't seem like a big deal. I can't remember if they've ever met Lorraine (the ex-wife). So... why am I suddenly feeling so anxious?
Rob
- Mood: anxious
