fine whine

Nothing exceptional happened today. More of my co-workers are resigning. I've lost two superiors in the past week, one to whom I reported directly and the other for whom I did a large chunk of work everyday.

I'm not sure what to make of this.

The company's going through a couple transitions at once. The people upstairs are trying to reposition the brand at the same time they have hired a consulting team (none named Bob) to help make the business more efficient.

We had to fill out a spreadsheet not too long ago itemizing our daily routines, against a list of some two hundred criteria. The list was badly assembled, I'd say, because 85% at least was completely irrelevant to my work and the other 15% nowhere near as specific as would be useful to anybody trying to streamline my workload. Other companies that have used these consultants have hemorrhaged people numbering in the triple digits, albeit the ones starting with "1". Nobody has said, however, if before everybody at those other companies got sacked, there was a mass exodus.

There's something to be said about rats and ships, or something like that.

National talk like a pirate day is in a week and two days. September 19th. Mark it on ye calendars, landlubbers.