Wednesday, April 06, 2005
SEQROC bows out
The end of an era.

We have all been fired. After a Mayoral ‘strategic workshop’ over the weekend they have decided to throw away SEQROC and replace it with…. Well, they don’t really know yet, but something exciting, some ‘strategic’ and something that’s going to get them on the nightly news.

I knew it was bad, when at a scheduled team meeting on Tuesday, Jane (branch manager) blustered in and announced “It’s bad guys, really bad.”

We were then visited in the Branch by Phil [Minns, Divisional Manager], Jude [Munro, CEO] and Campbell [Newman, Lord Mayor of Brisbane] – all in the same room, all at once, talking to us mere mortals.

So we have spent the rest of the week filling out application forms and updating CVs.

It is not quite as bad as it sounds. The worst that can happen is that I get shunted sideways into a crap job on the same pay.

Of course, the best that can happen is that I get one of the jobs I have applied for and get a pay rise.

Full story will follow, when I have time to write it. Still a little shocked about the whole thing really.

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