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No sense putting this off any longer
Mar. 8th, 2020 02:21 pmI was laid off from work this week (official last day Friday). I see that I didn't post a lot about the changes at PTC, though I've talked to a couple people about it. The short form is that there were a series of reorganizations that led to me having three bosses in the year I worked there.
There was a voluntary RIF a few months ago that I should have taken - the package was quite generous. Having been there less than a year and not wanting to go back to job hunting I passed. Stupid me. 20/20 hindsight.
People inside say that PTC stands for Prepare To Change. They're not wrong. The reorganizations left me with no people reporting to me and no idea what I was supposed to be in charge of. I saw the handwriting on the wall months ago, after the first big reorg put three of the people like me in one group. I thought I had navigated the rocky shoals - some of which were of my making - but no. They also let a visual designer and a UX designer go from the design team, as well as a couple of people working on close-associated projects. I heard that PM got hit particularly hard.
This is possibly the worst time to be unemployed since I was out of work for an extended stretch during the dot-bomb era. I predict that companies are going to turtle up and not hire until the COVID-19 situation is resolved. I doubt that'll be before May.
Obviously, if you know of UX/Design jobs please send them my way but more than that I could use companionship and interaction.
There was a voluntary RIF a few months ago that I should have taken - the package was quite generous. Having been there less than a year and not wanting to go back to job hunting I passed. Stupid me. 20/20 hindsight.
People inside say that PTC stands for Prepare To Change. They're not wrong. The reorganizations left me with no people reporting to me and no idea what I was supposed to be in charge of. I saw the handwriting on the wall months ago, after the first big reorg put three of the people like me in one group. I thought I had navigated the rocky shoals - some of which were of my making - but no. They also let a visual designer and a UX designer go from the design team, as well as a couple of people working on close-associated projects. I heard that PM got hit particularly hard.
This is possibly the worst time to be unemployed since I was out of work for an extended stretch during the dot-bomb era. I predict that companies are going to turtle up and not hire until the COVID-19 situation is resolved. I doubt that'll be before May.
Obviously, if you know of UX/Design jobs please send them my way but more than that I could use companionship and interaction.
