Whole Maryland office is being “consolidated” with Austin. They offered to move us to Austin if we want. How fucking generous.
Assholes at the top are the reason they’re losing money, production as far as I can tell was quite lean and putting out lots of product. They’re just gonna lop an arm off and hope it works out, and fuck the rest of us now out of a job cause they can’t balance overhead.
I might consider relocating someplace nice, but an overhyped, overpriced city in one of the reddest red states? Kindly fuck off.
My company says we don’t sell 30 million in flooring in next 6 months we might have to close our doors. But in the next two weeks they are flying all the branch managers to Chicago, putting in a fancy hotels and wine and dine them. They already did the same thing with the sales reps. I asked If they couldn’t have these meetings on Zoom. My boss didn’t like that.
Fucking new CEO one of those guys who last 5 companies he ran them into the ground. Already does weekly Zoom meetings I see no reason company that apparently running out of money had to close 20 branches suddenly as all the money to throw around wining and dining upper management.
Vulture Capitalism, the C level and board are somehow sucking all the money out of the company before they bounce.
I know I see writing on the wall.
TBF if I was forced to move to Texas, Austin would be the only city I’d accept. But begrudgingly. OP still did the right thing, though.
Sorry.
I strongly recommend not browsing these types of threads for a few days/weeks.
Try to avoid the doom scrolling.
Not sure what industry you’re in, but the Maryland state government is hiring in quite a few agencies across a swath of different jobs at the moment (I have family in state government who see these things and talk about them).
Not great pay compared to the private sector in many cases, but the benefits are decent, and you can probably pick up a job fairly quickly that can tide you over while you work toward the next thing you want.
Is the state gov paid out of state funds or also affected if the federal gov goes into another lockdown?
Obviously too late now, but the move to Austin would have taken a long time, had you thought of accepting the move and in the meantime starting an intense job search in Maryland? That way if you found nothing you at least still had a backup plan in Austin and you weren’t fully out of the job.
