Today is a bad day....

So I have to work tonight, which means that I've had a couple of extra hours sleep in the afternoon to prepare me for the nightshift.

I've woken up to a barrage of 'WTF?!?!?!' text messages from colleagues and after a bit of digging I managed to find out. Most of our entire team is at the risk of redundancy because the Client is moving business elsewhere. Fuck.

I feel absolutely horrid.

UPDATE: The entire team, including me, is at risk of redundancy. What's worse is that the consultation period will be little more than a formality, and that, sometime within the next 90 days, I won't have a job.

Here's the thing. I've been looking, for a while, for a new job, but I thought that I'd always have the safety net of being here to fall back on. There are two ways of looking at this:

1. Ffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffuck the world is falling down.OR
2. Ok, that's that then, nothing we can do, let's use this as the impetus to find a killer job in the time I have left.

As a colleague described it, if a plane slams into the side of a prison, you can either lament the structural damage to the prison itself, or you can just fucking escape. Pretty simple choice if you think about it, and I want to make the most of this horrible spot to kick forward in my career.

I'll miss the craic here in the office. There is no exaggeration on my part when I say that all of the people I work with are fucking top class. Honestly, you couldn't hope to work with a better bunch of people. They truely are superb and I'll miss working with every single one of them.

I'll probably take voluntary redundancy if it's offered, though. Just seems like a good spot to move on.

This is the second time in a little under two years when I've been at risk of redundancy, but whilst there was a realistic chance that I'd keep my job last time, that just isn't the case this time. Let's hope I can make lemons out of lemonade.

If anyone has suggestions for jobs, serious or otherwise (I could do with cheering up!) then let me know in the comments. For reference, I have a law degree, speak 4 languages to various degrees of fluency and am learning a fifth. I have amazing chops in Customer Service and Fraud Mitigation and (still) lead a team of 50 people.

I know this isn't the end of the world.

--mulhuzz

In which I don't actually update much, at all...

So it's been about a week since I blogged last, and basically, I've not played any poker.

As part of my self-imposed exile until the G Cup at the end of the month, I've really just been taking time to guide my fantasy football team to glory (I've had a nightmare of a weekend, thanks for asking...) and generally hitting the job trail hard. I've applied for a couple of nice positions, and heard some positive things back from some other jobs that are in the pipeline. That's one part of my 'new hotness' done.

Other than that I've been working hard at work to fuck the auditors we've had in the office recently. Basically, this was an Operational Processes audit, and we scored 93%. Hold the fistpumping and cartwheeling though folks, we still failed. You can file that under W for 'What. The. Fucking. Fuck.' (indeed, I have). Apparently it's appropriate to have a scoring system that prohibits the passing of said audit. I'm appealing, obviously, especially in the light of the fact that nobody in the UK has ever scored more than 85%, and they still thought we failed here. Fuck them, tbh.

My parents are on holiday currently, so I'm spending a good amount of time at their place looking after things and enjoying the big screen TV, just a shame I have to work tonight and can't see NUFC get tanked away to Man-fucking-Yooo as they're known in my house. Actually, Rooney's in my fantasy football team, so if we have to get tanked, please let him score all the goals.

Stuff I'm reading today:

German singer Nadja Benaissa apologises at HIV trial
This is a pretty interesting article, and actually, the law as it applies to the UK is interesting. Ideas of consent and intent play heavily on the judiciary in deciding such cases. As I think I've mentioned before, the idea of the Criminal Law is that which most appeals to me, and should I ever work as a solicitor, it'd be for the Crown as a Prosecutor. Just unfortunate that they are in the midst of a 3 year hiring freeze which isn't likely to get better anytime soon.


Spotify SVP Paul Brown leaves for new startup
Please don't be the beginning of the end for Spotify. I love them. Even though I don't have a phone to use it on, thanks, Carphone Warehouse, you bunch of cunts. That's another story entirely, though. I should point out that nothing in this post should be construed as liabliing Carphone Warehouse. Your complete and utter moronic treatment of me means that this comment would fall under the defense of Fair Comment. For the avoidance of doubt, no malice is either intended or inferred. Ok, rant over.


Stephen Fry's Newspaper
In the words of Scroobius Pip, "thou shall not question Stephen Fry". That being the case, get reading.

I'll leave you with the image a colleague drew of me. On a whiteboard. In the middle of the office:

Awesome Sauce.

Peace, Love and Grapes,

--mulhuzz