Our small pharmaceutical company is being acquired by a much larger bio-pharm firm. The deal finally was signed last night and will become official on Friday. The impact, however, hit hard last week.
On Monday of last week, the suits began their travels through our hallways ,and plans were launched. In the week that followed, several of the suits took up residence in the empty offices in my little area. Then, I watched my friends and colleagues nervously wait their turn to interview with the hopes of keeping their job.
This week, the little somethings that I’ve become accustomed to have slowly run out. The restocking of these items does not appear to be on the list of priorities. The milk is low and the forks are completely gone. Let me tell you, it can be done, but it’s a little challenging to eat salad with a spoon.
It’s hard times these days and all companies are cutting back. I can appreciate the need to minimize expenses. I guess I shouldn’t have taken things like plastic forks and spoons for-granted in the first place. 1st it’s forks, then the coffee, and eventually who knows. I may have to bring my own toilet paper next. You just don’t know how far they will go to save a buck.
What’s worse is when they cut people instead of the perks to save money, like they are doing at my company. Hope you’re one of the survivors.
Trying times for everybody! You’ve been through a lot with your job over the past year or so. Hang in there, Juls!
Yeah, try not to worry unless the TP runs out..
You could be like a teacher or student and use the new fangled invention the spork!!! Last year my boss had to lay off two of our eleven teachers due to town budget cuts and she removed our water cooler because she didn’t feel like it was right anymore. Its a sad scary time. We still have cardboard like tp though
What a mistake it is to cut everything to the bare bones and make people hate going to work. Some day our culture will reform and go back to valuing people while maintaining profit margins. Hopefully that will happen very soon. You can best bet that the high level execs at Mega-Drug Corp aren’t suffering.