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[dragonyphoenix]

A week or two ago we were told that the contract couldn't support all of us.  On Monday (Tuesday for me because I'd taken Halloween off), we were told that our hours were being cut.  Apparently we can either use vacation time or not get paid for those hours.  As you can imagine, the people I work with aren't all that happy, but I'm pretty cool with that.  I've been wanting reduced hours for a year or two now because I'd like to focus more on writing.  In November, I'll have 120 hours rather than 160 (Novemeber being a four week period starting on the 31st of October).  In December, 64 hours.  In January, 40 hours.  The November hours are fine for me because I'd already planned to take vacation.  December will work as well since I've got vacation saved up that will cover most of it.  January less so, but if we get back to regular hours in February, I'd be fine.

Today we got some bad new, but I'll have to set up the situation first.  The company I work for subcontracts out to another company, let's call it CC for contracting company.  They hired a third company, EC, to review the code that we wrote.  CC hired EC to review our code while reducing our hours.  EC is our competitor; they wrote pretty much the same type of code base we did.  So CC hired our competitor (EC standing for evil competitor) to recommend whether or not they should continue to use our code.  Doesn't seem ethical, does it?  Indeed, the impression I get is that CC is looking for a rationalization that will allow them to replace us with EC.

We are so screwed.

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[skuzzbopper.livejournal.com]

:(((((((((((((((((((((((((((

*HUG*

[dragonyphoenix.livejournal.com]

Awww, thank you.

[dragonyphoenix.livejournal.com]

Yeah, EC is new, to us, and unexpected. Apparently they've been in the picture for a while, but we weren't told. Can't imagine why! I'm just hoping it doesn't mess with the reduction of hours they've got scheduled over the next three months. I really need that break!