At 8:30 on Thursday morning, another round (4th…5th? I’ve losy track) of layoffs was announced at work. I didn’t make this round unscathed.
Don’t panic but…as of Monday, I’ll no longer be a Liaison Engineer within the completions group.
I’m moving to customer support engineering where they fix in-service airplanes. It’s technically a lateral, but because there is some on-call time required (I’ll carry a phone about one week a month), there’s a pay premium that amounts to about 2.3%.
I won’t have to deal with furloughs either.
And I’ll be back in a real cubicle farm…with air conditioning!
I had talked to the supervisor over there several weeks ago anyway. I was even working on updating my resume for her to hang onto until there was an opening. The layoff situation deleted the need for that formallity.
Yes, I think this will be a good move. Not as much hands-on, but definitely a more steady workload.
Yes, I am excited!
Yes, I am scared to death!
