It's a Friday night and K's out on the neighborhood Mom's Night Out, and I've got the house, the tv and two sleeping kids to myself. (Well, at least they are quiet right now). I never got to see School of Rock, so now seemed as good as anytime. I always love these kind of movies.
A bad week for my friends in Chicago. Practically the entire management staff of our retail marketing arm was laid-off. From inside, this can be looked at as a political move (all managers associated with a former head of marketing who was also let go a week or so earlier) or from the business perspective, the fact that our company is still losing money, we had too many people for our size and the only way to get the business in the black, is to lower our overall expenses. So, you get rid of the big salaries, the other overhead that came with them and move on. It's hard to look at it without getting personal when you cared and liked the people who are getting let go. But with all the information in hand, and that fact is that it is business, it seems like those in charge did what they had to do, and I'm sure there will be more. And I'm not even sure how safe I am, but I'll be up in NYC next week and hopefully get some questions answered, however subtly I have to go about it.
The weekend plans are quite hectic, at least tomorrow. First, the Inner Harbor Studio Tour 2004, which my committee is putting on. Then at 1 pm, I have a T-ball game that I can't attend for very long because at 2 pm, the event of the day, my very good friends Bill and Jen are getting married. Then it's back home to play with the kids and get ready for a Sunday full of errands.
And to the person who took up a good part of my evening on the phone, thanks. It's always wonderful to talk to such a good friend.
Posted by robdesign at May 21, 2004 09:54 PM