Don't believe  them, don't fear  them, don't ask anything  of them.
(Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn)



My  last  job ended  with  that  employer  moving  the plant  to  a
different state  and I was still  there for most of  the downsizing
and wind-down  of operations  of the  old plant  (and the  chaos of
getting the new  plant up and running). The  hourly workforce, most
of them  good hard-working people who  had been there a  long time,
were let go -  very few were offered to relocate  to the new plant.
It was all handled /very/ poorly.




Today and tomorrow my current employer is having a 'broker' company
begin auctioning  off all of  our major equipment,  including items
that we  will still be  using (they will  be delivered over  to the
purchasers once we're finished using them).


As unpleasant as that is, the employees of the 'broker' company are
not being at  all gracious about things. Twice today  I had to hold
back from using my old vocabulary from my foundry days.


As depressing as that is for me  I've only been there for two and a
half years  - there are people  still working there that  have been
there for  four decades or  more, including  some of my  own direct
reports. I think they're handling it pretty well, considering.


Tomorrow is going  to be an even harder day.  Today was the preview
for  people  to look  at  what's  available, tomorrow  the  on-site
auction happens and  the online auction begins. It is  a good thing
that I never started drinking.






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