Tuesday, July 19, 2005
How The Upper Deck Company is like the Hotel California and other things
"You can check out anytime you like, but you can never leave..."
That sums up my experience here at Upper Deck. Last week my supervisor, Meryl, came to me sheepishly and asked as nicely as she could.
"What are your plans for August?"
"Oh, I have some family and friends coming in to town, and a couple of other things going on..." I answered knowingly.
"Job" she screamed, "do you have a job yet?"
"No, I don't have anything lined up yet." I said nervously.
"I don't really know how to even ask this, but can you possilbly stay longer? I want to extend you until at least the end of September, or maybe longer depending on if things have settled down any" she responded.
So I agreed, what the heck, I can come and go as I need to, the Director of HR will be back on Monday (18th) Things will get easier, I thought.
Friday the other shoe fell, and fell hard.
The Director of HR called us on Friday (7/15) and told us she is not coming back. She can't bear to leave her new baby...
The upper management here is fantastic, no one has even called us, or the outgoing Director. When Meryl confronted our boss, his repsonse was something to the effect of "I've never met Mercedes, and you guys seem to be doing fine down there, so we'll just go on like this."
Needless to say Meryl has scheduled a meeting to discuss a go-forward plan.
But really, let's get to what is important...what does this mean for ME?
I'm not getting to leave here in 8 days as I had planned, I may not even get to leave at the end of September, I'm going to have to fill the 40 + jobs we have open by myself for the forseeable future, and if Meryl gets her way, I may have a job offer soon. The real question is should I choose to so no, will the Hotel California let me leave??????
Other things:
The reunion was a blast. See if you can get stories out of Scott. His friends from High School are funny! I just put something in the mail for Madison, that should get the ire up of a couple of people living in Sacramento for the summer. =) We are going to try to have Phil's with Jonny tomorrow night, but I will remember, "Phil's without Jonny is better than no Phil's at all"
That sums up my experience here at Upper Deck. Last week my supervisor, Meryl, came to me sheepishly and asked as nicely as she could.
"What are your plans for August?"
"Oh, I have some family and friends coming in to town, and a couple of other things going on..." I answered knowingly.
"Job" she screamed, "do you have a job yet?"
"No, I don't have anything lined up yet." I said nervously.
"I don't really know how to even ask this, but can you possilbly stay longer? I want to extend you until at least the end of September, or maybe longer depending on if things have settled down any" she responded.
So I agreed, what the heck, I can come and go as I need to, the Director of HR will be back on Monday (18th) Things will get easier, I thought.
Friday the other shoe fell, and fell hard.
The Director of HR called us on Friday (7/15) and told us she is not coming back. She can't bear to leave her new baby...
The upper management here is fantastic, no one has even called us, or the outgoing Director. When Meryl confronted our boss, his repsonse was something to the effect of "I've never met Mercedes, and you guys seem to be doing fine down there, so we'll just go on like this."
Needless to say Meryl has scheduled a meeting to discuss a go-forward plan.
But really, let's get to what is important...what does this mean for ME?
I'm not getting to leave here in 8 days as I had planned, I may not even get to leave at the end of September, I'm going to have to fill the 40 + jobs we have open by myself for the forseeable future, and if Meryl gets her way, I may have a job offer soon. The real question is should I choose to so no, will the Hotel California let me leave??????
Other things:
The reunion was a blast. See if you can get stories out of Scott. His friends from High School are funny! I just put something in the mail for Madison, that should get the ire up of a couple of people living in Sacramento for the summer. =) We are going to try to have Phil's with Jonny tomorrow night, but I will remember, "Phil's without Jonny is better than no Phil's at all"
# posted by Janice @ 1:35 PM 
