Living to see another day....

It would seem that I've survived yet another round of layoffs.

Phew.

As expected, yesterday was 'the day' and thankfully, our group (the testers) didn't suffer too many losses. The word around the office was that as far as the IT folks were concerned, the people on the chopping block were VPs and above. Unfortunately, that proved to be true, as the 3 people in SQA that were terminated were all VPs. Sadness.

Aside from the three people I knew within SQA, I said 'goodbye' to one of my former bosses (who I LOVED), one of my sister's best friends, (who just happened to also work at the same company as me) and saddest of all, one of my former co-workers and close friends.

Way back when, he and I worked at a different company on the same team, eventually I took over the group and was his supervisor, then shortly after that I left the company. He stayed there and coincidentally, both of our companies ended up being bought by the same larger company, so we were working for the same place once again. If he hadn't been laid off, we were all going to be back together again in the same building come next Spring. BUT - that clearly wasn't mean to be. :-(

There are more layoffs on the horizon, but hopefully you won't hear me mention anything about it until at LEAST March of 2011. Hopefully.

In other (happier) news - Thanksgiving was GREAT, my time out of the office was fantastic, and our house is completely decorated for Christmas!!!! Yay.

We'll probably get the tree this weekend and decorate it early next week.

In the meantime, here are the pictures I promised of the 'new and improved' Christmas Village display for 2010.
They aren't all that clear, because they were taken with my iPhone, but you'll get the idea.

Enjoy :-)

Level One completed...