Allen Zadr's Journal: The Leaving

This is the first of two journal entries about my transition from one job to another. The second one is here.

Last Friday, I left my employer of 6.7 years. I was the Director of Information Technology within the North American group.

The company was small, but international (less than 200 employees world-wide). A few years ago, they had almost 300. Nobody has heard of this company. There was only one I.T. person for each of three regions, and my only collegues there, were each on another continent.

The company was 18 miles from my far-suburban home, to my near-suburban work and it took me about 45 minutes to get to the lot. There's an ample free-parking lot, and it took about 3 minutes from entering the lot to my desk.

I was the big fish, the guru on the hill.

In any case, yet another boss-man came in, with yet another big plan for saving big money. Sales people were hired, and fired (as usual). Certain things were cut back and other things were boosted. However, this boss decided that I.T. cost too much money, and proceeded to start bringing in I.T. outsourcing companies to bid on my job.

So, after an unqualified bid that he liked (where unqualified means that they were not actually able to deal with all of our systems, only a few). I was offerred a 17% pay-cut.

Some of the other managers encouraged me to look out for number one (as if I needed convincing). The search was on. It took me four months to find a position, and I left the place behind with no plans to look back.

As I said, that was last Friday.

Next: here.