The inevitable has finally happened.It's been rather quiet on here recently whilst several things have been going on. But as of yesterday it seems my ailing company is finally locking the doors. I've been given my termination letter.
I've been expecting this since April when the majority of other people left the company, but it is sad for it to finally happen. There are lots of bad things about the place but we were working on a great product and it's sad to see it end this way.
I think the most frustrating part is that the whole enterprise has really failed because the directors lost interest. It seems they can't wait to move on to the next things they have lined up. And overall it seems they aren't losing much money either - which probably explains why they never really fought for the company or really committed themselves to its survival.
So a brief pause for a bit of reflection and then its time to step up my search for the next thing. Not the best time to be looking, but hopefully something will come along - I hope something quite interesting - but will settle for paying the bills. In the meantime I have several ideas and projects that are filling my time, plus some finishing off that needs to be done for my old company.
Surprisingly this is the first time I've been made redundant and only the second time I've left a company at their behest rather than mine (the previous time was the end of a contract which wasn't renewed). Given my liking for small companies, I think this is quite unusual.
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Sad that it's finally ended :( but it did seem (from the outside) like a long death, so maybe good to now be able to move on.
Best of luck with new projects and prospects.
At least you don't work in financial services!
Yep, sad to hear that it has happened but from an early post it seem like this was going to happen all along.
Are you looking for permy work or are you going to go contracting again?
Yes, it's been a long, slow death and in many ways it's good to finally have ended.
Looking for anything right now but hopefully a permie role - I've had enough mincing around with contracts :-)
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