I work for a crazy, depressing, failing start-up company. We just had our 3rd round of layoffs (and the people laid off got no severance). But hey, we need all of you, please stay! Don't go looking elsewhere!! (No raise since 2011 and the stock is basically TP now.)
So now the ones that are left are all "jockeying" for their "spot". Prove their worth, their niche, whatever for the new company.
Apparently being one of the few people tech people left without a Y chromosome means...I get to do shipping, receiving, and Fed Ex for everyone! WTF?? Gee, what a race to the bottom.
So, I'm also busy building a database to help everyone out (since our location doesn't actually produce anything anymore) and link data from 4 different people. My boss's idea of "proving my worth". He's right, we need it for sure.
But I'm also looking for another job (so is everyone else, not to mention the people who got laid off). Here's to hoping the one company I interviewed with last year (and with whom I'm still talking occasionally), has something for me and decides they'd rather have ME, and not a more-senior director type. They are busy hiring and have already hired some accounting and IT people. Pick me, pick me!!