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Then you would know you would have many many hours of work to get them back to the same position!
All that's left to say is:
T G I F
Can I fire my employers? Has anyone tried that?
It's called resigning.
I've done it several times, and am now on my own - pluses and minuses as ever. Just wanna say good luck, and on the domain thing... it will rapidly become your responsibilty to get the unavailable domain name, or at least that's the way the management will see it.
I've thought many, many times of striking out on my own. My new car payment tells me not to do it...
Jeez. Bless you and keep you, because SOMEONE needs to be playing guardian angel about now....
Hm. Maybe you need to hunt up some decent VC and buy them out?
No, I still wanna work here, I just want all new management and owners
Hahahaha that should go down as one of the greatest quotes ever.
You can always buy the old "useless" domain name from your company and put adsense on it... :D
I like that idea its like giving your self a raise... Good thinkin
I went and got drunk for the two weeks, knowing what was ahead, and when I got back to work, all hell had broken loose, and having the two weeks off to think about the problem without the clutter of endless meetings and "Reorganization Transition Seminars" etc etc...
Well, lets just say when I got back to work, the next few weeks made me look like a Saint/Savior/Godchild.
Working on my own, the worst thing that ever happened was a company I'd been doing a ton of work for over a couple of months, went and got itself "merged" (in the unfriendly sense) by a larger corporation, changed its name and focus, and made all the work I'd done irellevant. The higher ups knew it was coming, but didn't tell ANYONE. To top it off, the new "merged" company tried to stiff me on my fees because I wouldn't be able to meet assigned completion deadlines, because I'd have to start from scratch. One of the internals saved my financial behind by calmly informing the MGT that I was the only person who knew what was going on in certain projects, and they'd have to hire me to do work in spite of the merger, so it was best "Not to create an antagonistic relationship." (All total lies. I was easily replaceable, and they could've been as antagonistic as they liked, because by the letter of the original contracts, they could've screwed me out of my fees, leaving me so desperate for cash I would've signed just about any new contract they put in front of me).
Its funny cause I HAD this great, clear plan of what to do. Now, I'm looking up information, finding conflicting reports about the usability of 302 redirects (I told the sys admin they HAD to be 301 redirects cause 302s were terrible!) and their affects on search engine 'bots, and I'm wondering what I really know at all.
At least writing the paper makes me FEEL better about the situation, and provides a way to think out my plan.
I hope they change their minds have to bid for their old names back! That would make them pay twoce for all the traffic you built up.
Actually I have seen worse.. I think it is worse to say you WANT to keep the domains, but in the transition INSIST on doing something that causes them to lose their backlinks and rank.
I, too fired my employer and neverlooked back. As for keeping the same job and changing the owners and management? That's easy... after you quit and start doing this work for yourself, hire some managers.
Times change, guess I should too.
I learned a few very important lessons though. When the big changes hit, your best reaction is invariably to not react at all. Just blend into the wall, become invisible for a bit, and give yourself the breathing room to try and figure out what's really going on, how it affects you personally, your department, and the company as a whole (in that order). If you can do that, then step in to make changes and work in the new reality, you'll invariably come out smelling like a rose.
In reality, its a very hard thing to do. But the tendency is for everyone to panic at the big change. If you can be seen as the one who reacts calmly, and deliberately, even if you make a few bad decisions, the fact you didn't lose your head puts you a step up over your peers.
Apropos of another thread here, and the very real discomfort with which you are dealing right now, here's something that's "old", but may be "new" again - and might further validate grel's post above.
If...
Rudyard Kipling
If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
But make allowance for their doubting too;
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or being lied about, don't deal in lies,
Or being hated, don't give way to hating,
And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise:
If you can dream - and not make dreams your master;
If you can think - and not make thoughts your aim;
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
And treat those two impostors just the same;
If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to broken,
And stoop and build 'em up with wornout tools:
If you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings
And never breathe a word about your loss;
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the Will which says to them: 'Hold on!'
If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
Or walk with kings - nor lose the common touch,
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you,
If all men count with you, but none too much;
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds' worth of distance run -
Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,
And - which is more - you'll be a Man my son!
[Admittedly "male-oriented-slanted" but in Kipling's era, WAS there any other way?]
I think the single most interesting thing about this particular poem is its simple truth - not only THEN (appx 100 years ago), but NOW.
Thanks much for all the support! I appreciate it.
