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The last 24 hours of my twitterings and tweetings.

• 09:52 Trying not to get annoyed that after having spoken to someone about a problem, a sales person comes and asks someone else to deal with... #
• 13:27 Quite annoyed at someone asking me to do the impossible then getting snarky at me about not being able to do it. #
• 13:29 Some people whose jobs are 'in consultation' are in today. It's uncomfortable. #
• 19:42 So sweepy #
• 21:51 An evening questing and killing various demons, beasts and elementals. Nice. #
• 23:34 Watching Silence of the Lambs on the tellybox. Fun film! #
• 23:38 Switched to Terminator 3:Rise of the Machines. Mm Claire Danes, the woman of my dreams! #
• 23:41 Just a shame the film's so awful! Turned back to Jodie Foster. She's cute, in a way. She's gay though? #

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As you probably know if you've been reading my automatically posted Tweets, the past week has been an interesting one in work-terms.  Friday morning at 10-ish the whole floor was pulled into the break room and told that the company would be shedding ~35 jobs in the support, sales, IT and customer service departments worldwide.  We were told to go sit down and wait.

About 30 minutes later our team was pulled aside by our boss and told that we weren't being "shed", and we talked about it for a while.  Turns out that we had lost:
- Half the customer service team (3 people)
- One of the field engineers
- The customer service manager
- Half the sales force (4 or 5, we're still not sure)
- The manager of our "Fusion" program, which is in place to reward high-spending customers.
- One of the IT dept (only 3 of them anyhow!)

So it's been weird.  None of us can make sense of the people who have gone, considering the direction the company has been taking lately in terms of sales (more direct sales as opposed to selling through distribution) and the effort & money that has gone into the fusion program only to seemingly abandon it now.

The doomed have been in and out the office a few times and it's hugely uncomfortable.  I try not to feel guilty about it (being sat here when they're sat at home) but it's difficult at times.  We're all discussing what the bosses are doing, what the ultimate aim is, and hopefully when the "consultation period" is up and the people are no longer employees we'll get some answers.

However, in more positive news I have an interview.  It's for a Desktop Support Analyst position at Carphone Warehouse Networks (formerly Opal Networks) in Irlam.  It's the wrong physical location to be perfect, but I don't have any trust in this company any more.  Once they've done one round of redundancies, I am going to wager that the chances of another wave being round the corner are quite high.  So, job applications are going to be sent out seriously now, rather than just here and there when I see something that grabs my attention.