As you may recall last year I changed jobs—left my employer of seven years for another. There aren’t too many men of my age still working let alone changing employers.
My former employer met my definition of a medium-sized company: $200 million annual revenues, 1,200 employees, half to two-third of them in India. Locations in four countries, four in the U. S.
Yesterday I got some surprising news. My former employer has ceased U. S. operations. I don’t know when it happened. Probably some time in the last six weeks. I was informed of it when I reached out to a former colleague.
The impetus for my departure was a mandatory pay cut, caused by the lockdowns. I had been there before early in my career and wasn’t about to put up with that again. Looks like my reasoning and timing were both pretty good.
You can come clean. Without you they just couldn’t make it….. 😉
I think that’s at least in part true. At least one product died without me around. Not only was I its inventor but I was its chief evangelist.
And there you have it.