{"id":8920,"date":"2019-05-08T19:43:05","date_gmt":"2019-05-09T02:43:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/?p=8920"},"modified":"2021-01-08T19:43:20","modified_gmt":"2021-01-09T03:43:20","slug":"first-wave","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/2019\/05\/08\/first-wave\/","title":{"rendered":"First wave&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The first wave layoff is complete.<\/p>\n<p>Not much rumbling to report. Yet!<\/p>\n<p>I think more and more people are figuring out that management will find a way to make sure that we don&#8217;t get the promised bonus. I suspected this would be the way it went.<\/p>\n<p>They&#8217;re changing the rules as we&#8217;re playing the game. The latest changes are retroactive to the beginning of the year and have effectively made everyone left, technically not in &#8220;good standing&#8221;. They&#8217;ve also reduced our call time and time to finish our documentation, <strong>again<\/strong>. The games management plays&#8230; sigh<\/p>\n<p>Many people have asked about it, all we&#8217;ve been told is that adjustments well be made&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Uhh, that&#8217;s already happened, and now management has showed their cards. There&#8217;s no reason to stay. Typical of this company, set un-achievable goals and then punish us for failing. A lot more people are looking for the door and several have said that they&#8217;re looking for ways to exit early.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not sure if it&#8217;s possible to exit early and still get unemployment. But that&#8217;s been a thought. Once someone figures that out, I suspect there will be an exodus that would stun the Ancient Egyptians.<\/p>\n<p>Naked by a pool is looking better and better. Maybe with a nice stiff drink that never runs out.<\/p>\n<p>Well I&#8217;ll see, now that my head is clear for the follies of the week, I&#8217;m in the right mind set to do the research to find out what the options are.<\/p>\n<p>Gotta have all the logic on-line to analyze legal doublespeak.<\/p>\n<p>Wish me luck.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first wave layoff is complete. Not much rumbling to report. Yet! I think more and more people are figuring out that management will find a way to make sure that we don&#8217;t get the promised bonus. I suspected this would be the way it went. They&#8217;re changing the rules as we&#8217;re playing the game. &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/2019\/05\/08\/first-wave\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;First wave&#8230;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8920","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8920","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8920"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8920\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8921,"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8920\/revisions\/8921"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}