4305: Damage Control
So here's a thing! Our CFO is gone. This makes TWO times a CFO has been dismissed where I've temped =p [though, at Caketown, I was permanent by then]
I don't know that that's proprietary information, as it were--yes, this was an issue [brought up at the "All Hands On Deck" meeting today], but it seems like who the Big Boss and etc. are more public knowledge than, say, who the engineers are. Maybe correct me if I'm wrong... though I'm not exactly naming names or anything, and "we got a new CFO" isn't exactly news outside of the company except to, like, SUPER spies with the power of Deep Thought+ [in which case, turnover is hardly the most useful piece of information that could be gleaned even from someone like me].
The difference is--I *believe*, not know--that Cake Boss was most likely let go entirely for performance issues, while Scrooge was put up against the wall due to the merger; i.e. two CFOs go in, one CFO comes out. El Presidente preferred the "new" CFO for reasons I'll explain below, but now I kinda get why Scrooge always looked like someone had just done a hit-and-run on his car [though I'm really just filling in blanks here]. Kinda sad, though--he actually thanked me personally for a task I'd done for him just a coupla days ago, and I thought that was a Good Sign and all.
*reset*
So. El Presidente called this aforementioned meeting, and I'm pretty sure this was the first time I actually saw him--certainly the first time I connected his face with his name, at least. [He has a photo in the company newsletter, but I never remember it for some reason.] It took half the meeting for me to process, but he definitely reminds me of if Liev Schreiber's Sabretooth was an old Texan [more hair vs. close-cropped]. Schreibertooth it is.
The meeting was largely a "Hey, remember me? I'm your president!" kinda meeting, which--now that his "day job" as president of the OTHER company is over--should happen monthly, with the free pizza that entails =9 Mostly he discussed things like why they dissolved, who transferred from there to here, what will happen to the stuff [currently, inventory; later... company-sanctioned looting??], etc. details of that nature. What got me was the whole "part-time president" thing, plus some of the things he said I definitely won't repeat [difficult to describe inspecifically, and no good, won't-get-me-in-trouble reason to be specific], which kinda made me wonder... well. Anyway, New CFO--while the Challenger in our eyes--was part of Schreibertooth's team at his Real Job, so Scrooge was the one put on the spot to shape up or ship out. I don't know how many other such challenges took place, but that was the main one addressed, since the meeting was the first time the majority of us heard about it [or, had it verified, anyway].
Not really excited about the path where this is going, but... *shrug* until I'm offered a for-real permanent position again [not likely here], I'm not taking anything for granted. Even expect to get the "oh, we're out of money, you can pack up your desk" thing well before the promised January, but we'll see.
Frankly, I did expect it already and had even kinda planned for it so I could play catch up with my comic--which is barely scraping by even when I cut corners--but I guess that didn't work out, so I'm boned =( [UGH I WANT TO DRAW AND CANNOT]
I also... have a thing about a collar. I blew so much time tonight just on art, though, the write-up will have to come later. It's a mixed feeling, though--both disappointment and a relief.
I don't know that that's proprietary information, as it were--yes, this was an issue [brought up at the "All Hands On Deck" meeting today], but it seems like who the Big Boss and etc. are more public knowledge than, say, who the engineers are. Maybe correct me if I'm wrong... though I'm not exactly naming names or anything, and "we got a new CFO" isn't exactly news outside of the company except to, like, SUPER spies with the power of Deep Thought+ [in which case, turnover is hardly the most useful piece of information that could be gleaned even from someone like me].
The difference is--I *believe*, not know--that Cake Boss was most likely let go entirely for performance issues, while Scrooge was put up against the wall due to the merger; i.e. two CFOs go in, one CFO comes out. El Presidente preferred the "new" CFO for reasons I'll explain below, but now I kinda get why Scrooge always looked like someone had just done a hit-and-run on his car [though I'm really just filling in blanks here]. Kinda sad, though--he actually thanked me personally for a task I'd done for him just a coupla days ago, and I thought that was a Good Sign and all.
*reset*
So. El Presidente called this aforementioned meeting, and I'm pretty sure this was the first time I actually saw him--certainly the first time I connected his face with his name, at least. [He has a photo in the company newsletter, but I never remember it for some reason.] It took half the meeting for me to process, but he definitely reminds me of if Liev Schreiber's Sabretooth was an old Texan [more hair vs. close-cropped]. Schreibertooth it is.
The meeting was largely a "Hey, remember me? I'm your president!" kinda meeting, which--now that his "day job" as president of the OTHER company is over--should happen monthly, with the free pizza that entails =9 Mostly he discussed things like why they dissolved, who transferred from there to here, what will happen to the stuff [currently, inventory; later... company-sanctioned looting??], etc. details of that nature. What got me was the whole "part-time president" thing, plus some of the things he said I definitely won't repeat [difficult to describe inspecifically, and no good, won't-get-me-in-trouble reason to be specific], which kinda made me wonder... well. Anyway, New CFO--while the Challenger in our eyes--was part of Schreibertooth's team at his Real Job, so Scrooge was the one put on the spot to shape up or ship out. I don't know how many other such challenges took place, but that was the main one addressed, since the meeting was the first time the majority of us heard about it [or, had it verified, anyway].
Not really excited about the path where this is going, but... *shrug* until I'm offered a for-real permanent position again [not likely here], I'm not taking anything for granted. Even expect to get the "oh, we're out of money, you can pack up your desk" thing well before the promised January, but we'll see.
Frankly, I did expect it already and had even kinda planned for it so I could play catch up with my comic--which is barely scraping by even when I cut corners--but I guess that didn't work out, so I'm boned =( [UGH I WANT TO DRAW AND CANNOT]
I also... have a thing about a collar. I blew so much time tonight just on art, though, the write-up will have to come later. It's a mixed feeling, though--both disappointment and a relief.