Ka-Boom

Yesterday morning we gathered together and listened to the new health-care the new boss organised for us, you can get your partner in it, too, and I thought, what a great company I´m working for.

Back at the PC I got an invitation from the boss - at our actual lunch-time.
Not yet teamleader L, who´d told me how desperate he needs a tester, was there, too.

To cut things short... it wasn´t about the useless company-car that eats up € 400 each month.
No.
I signed my notice of termination.

After 16 years it takes the new boss 30 minutes to get rid of me.
He´s very sorry, but since they cannot sell me to work external...
Yes, so sorry, if things get better and he can keep me, he will.

Well, what can I say. Reckon I jinxed it just yesterday.

There is SO.Much.Work to do, too!
But when money is thight, quality isn´t important anymore.
If that´s the right way to go?

L asked me into his office afterwards.
He was not happy, said he only heard the bad news a few days ago.
That he´ll help me and that after 3-4 months, if things go up, I just apply again.

My very first termination.
Now I know how Ingo´d felt.
"Funny" btw. April 30th 2001 I had a job interview at this company and signed a minute later.
May 1st is a public holiday, so on Thursday 2nd I started.

My last day will be April 30th 2018.
I call that irony.

NameSis had waited and she had a pretty good idea what this was all about.
She had the very same talk with the new boss the day before.

So there we sat at Brodocz and couldn´t really believe it.
The kale-lasagna was ok, btw.

She hugged me and said, better go home and have a good cry there.

I know things could be worse, I could be sick or something, but still.
I find it unfair.
16 darn years external and yes, I know it wasn´t a pleasant job for the new boss, either.
He also offered to ask around for me.

And what would´ve been the alternative.
Sitting with that darn colleague F at VW again?! I would´ve declined that anyways as that dude made me sick before (like in physically sick).

Oh, bummer.
And he certainly picked a date for this, too.

He picked the day my "lille" Bro turned 40.
Try to be cheery on the phone...

He picked two days before a long weekend, too.
But I will have to try to enjoy it anyways.

Ka-boom, like a bomb, that was.
Or was it but a movie and I wake up and nothing had happened?

Never feel too secure...

Addendum. I really had no clue at all. It was on very short notice and without a hint.
I do believe with preparation I could´ve maybe saved myself with arguments.
One statement was he thinks I cannot sell myself.
He thinks so.
I said I have no idea. I had one half-hearted chance.
It´s hard for me to understand, esp with all the work waiting there.