Waiting for the catastrophe to happen
Friday was my last day working for Apple; I'm moving to a new position monday with an equally huge and important corporation. But something is amiss. I consider myself a Harbenger of Doom to the places I work, because when I leave it is usually due to, or shortly preceeds dramatic and tragic change. Examples from my past:
* I left the pizza shop; manager commited suicide, the franchise went under.
* quit aerial photography, the company closed
* left electonics store when the 60 store chain went chapter 11
* When I left Whirlpool they shut down the productionline I worked on and lost 1,000 people.
* When I left the Billiad shop, it turned into a pizza place and closed within 2 weeks.
* left the Marriott in Key Largo. Shortly after the owner was gunned down execution-style with 20 bullets in his car on aligator alley.
* Left fine dining restaurant and the owners split the company up after divorce/fight.
* left Sau Paulo at the Rio, next week it went from 24 hr to morning-lunchtime dropping 2/3rds staff.
* left Bellagio when Hurricane Katrina destroyed Beau Rivage casino. Hiring freeze and they dropped 250 staff just from F&B area.
* downsized from Bally's when they chopped up the departments
So, naturally I'm curious to see if anything suddenly happens with this place. I did see a new change to how our department will handles calls and I think it will start to suck pretty fast and may affect their customer satisfaction scores. But at the rate my luck works with leaving... I'm afraid a plane may crash into the place!
Earlier this week, there's nothing like getting a tire changed in 104 degree weather. It also ate up most of my leftover summer fun money.
* I left the pizza shop; manager commited suicide, the franchise went under.
* quit aerial photography, the company closed
* left electonics store when the 60 store chain went chapter 11
* When I left Whirlpool they shut down the productionline I worked on and lost 1,000 people.
* When I left the Billiad shop, it turned into a pizza place and closed within 2 weeks.
* left the Marriott in Key Largo. Shortly after the owner was gunned down execution-style with 20 bullets in his car on aligator alley.
* Left fine dining restaurant and the owners split the company up after divorce/fight.
* left Sau Paulo at the Rio, next week it went from 24 hr to morning-lunchtime dropping 2/3rds staff.
* left Bellagio when Hurricane Katrina destroyed Beau Rivage casino. Hiring freeze and they dropped 250 staff just from F&B area.
* downsized from Bally's when they chopped up the departments
So, naturally I'm curious to see if anything suddenly happens with this place. I did see a new change to how our department will handles calls and I think it will start to suck pretty fast and may affect their customer satisfaction scores. But at the rate my luck works with leaving... I'm afraid a plane may crash into the place!
Earlier this week, there's nothing like getting a tire changed in 104 degree weather. It also ate up most of my leftover summer fun money.