Here We Go Again

With the global recession, it cannot be helped but to see companies looking for cheaper alternatives, to reduce costs, to better the bottomlines till times are better. The firm i'm working in is no exception and it doesn't help when our department is a cost driven department. In about 3 to 4 months, 6 of my colleagues will be leaving us, be it internally or externally as their positions are being deployed to India. I pray that they will get another position within the firm soon as not only its a loss to the firm if they go just because they cannot find another position soon enough internally. But from the fact that some of them are pretty close friends and it will definitely be a loss to me personally to see them go.

One of my colleague who was not affected by this deployment remarked that it was so sudden, stemming from the effect that we have discussed this before and we believed that deployment will only come after the 1st quarter results if the loss continues for the firm. Why we believe so was due to the nature of our work, where problem solving skills cannot be taught but only gained through experience and knowledge of the systems. These skills cannot be achieved easily within a short period of time. So strong was our conviction that we believe that deployment will happen gradually and over the next 2 years. Afterall, the roles within our department that does the setup and maintenance of the static data took a year to deployed. If these roles that handled the routine and mundane tasks took a year, what's more for those like us whose roles are more investigative and intuitive by nature. Maybe that's also the reason why we are having a partial deployment now rather than a full deployment; to test if a full deployment is possible?

Whatever it maybe, i told my colleague who was so distraught by the news that there's always a silver lining. We should be grateful that it's not a full deployment and that we are still employed. With the fact that we are being retained only serve to prove that we are at least performing our jobs well and we would be the last to go. For that fact, it should also argue well for our next job when we need to search for one.