| From the land of 'Been there, done that' 2 choices:
1) Wake up, find a new job, before you get laid off too.
2) Wake up, find a job working on their product, before you get laid off too. I worked for a company that had about 3000 employees. We were bought by a competitor. Layoffs came often as they tried, with some success, to convert our customers to their product. But many liked ours better. Eventually to kill our product and force acceptance of theirs, they laid off all the developers. The only ones not laid off were the cool aid drinkers who switched. Myself, I was taken out when it went from 200 people to 100. The next year they closed our place. It put my career back a good 5 years. Smart people left early on their own, not laid off, and found much better jobs. All the while as we were being squeezed the place kept getting more and more depressing. Another friend was in a company he loved on a product he loved. The parent company just outright killed the project. He and a few others quit and started working on the project. He worked another job to feed his family. He works 60 to 100 hours a week. Has recently found out the others are screwing him and if it takes off he gets nothing. Moral of the stories: do not fall in love with a project so much that you cannot walk away. 2nd moral, get it in writing. |