Day 422 (303 Business Days): For love or Post-its

Now I've survived that, I feel much better.

We had a huge client in a couple of days ago and it's taken me two days to recover. Unfortunately, my allergies have also started up again. So, yeah, sneezing is awesome.

Last night, I went out with some work friends and in the course of the night had a rather long conversation about how our company is failing miserably.

A little background: our company didn't exactly have the best first quarter (but then who did), which isn't that unusual for design stuff. Still, it was pretty awful and we had a bunch of layoffs about a month ago. Not many people compared to some companies, but it was a tenth of our work force and it definitely made a difference in morale. No less than 10 people have expressed a desire to quit and some have already followed through on that threat. Everyone else is overworked, underpaid and pretty thoroughly disgusted with the company. The rats are jumping ship and it feels like none of the managers are paying attention. No one is noticing the huge drop in morale; they've only noticed the drop in profit.

Even though I knew all of this, I still didn't realize just how bad it had gotten. The comments from people about how our company is slowly sinking (Literally--the building is sinking) have made me nervous. I'm not stupid. I have sent out resumes to a couple of places and I've already lined up an interview somewhere else, but I'm also saving to move to the west coast and can't really afford to screw it up now by working a job that pays minimum wage.

All of the financial troubles aside, it's awful to watch people you've started to care about drowning, overwhelmed with work and falling into a deep depression. I worry about them. Some of my co-workers stay as late as 3am trying to get projects completed on time. It's terrible, demoralizing, and, quite frankly, moronic that the company has brought everyone to the brink of insanity all for the sake of profitability. And that is really what it all comes down to for management . People v. Money.

Anyway, we'll see how this works out and I'll keep you posted on the situation. The good news is I now have a chocolate chip cookie. Oh joy of joys!