Well...it could be raining....

Goodbye Lucent, originally uploaded by jjvannorman



It's been an unhappy day at work.

While not unexpected it was still unpleasant. We learned today that not only will we have another corporate purge in December, we will have an immediate purge next month as well.

The hallway buzz is this one will cut deep again - 25%. Gallows humor purports the December purge will be the remaining 75%. May not be far from the truth.

I speculated as much with my friends after last weeks announcement of Pat Russo's exit. I pondered if it may be a window to do some heavy duty "housecleaning". Why not let the lame duck do the dirty work and the incoming CEO will have the task of rebuilding the company. Sort of good CEO v. bad CEO.

My friends and family have kindly endured my lamentations of expecting to lose my job over the last 6 or 7 years. My speculations were not without merit, our Lisle-Naperville site has gone from > 10,000 people to less then 2,000.

So it's update the resume, maybe post some resumes to the more interesting jobs in the area -- I had to at some point begin the process. The wrinkle is -- can I jump to another job when I am less than 3 years away from a full pension?

More good new on the home front. We had some aftermath issues after block incident. I'll save that for another post.