Just found out I may not be loosing my Job (long)

[jtoomasson at yahoo.com (Jeff Toomasson)]

Hell - in this economic climate, being jobless is no fun. Hopefully, your
new arragement will work out and things won't end up being as aggressive as
you anticipate.

G/L!  JT
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Calimus" <calimus@techography.net>
To: "Scirocco ML" <scirocco-l@scirocco.org>
Sent: Tuesday, January 20, 2004 9:16 AM
Subject: Just found out I may not be loosing my Job (long)


> Some of you know and some of you don't know that I've been facing the
> reality of joining the jobless for a while now.  I work for First North
> American National Bank (FNANB for short) which is owned by Circuit
> City.  This past May an announcement was madr that CC was looking into
> all avenues of cutting costs and this entailed selling off both parts of
> FNANB (Bankcard and Privatelable) or outsourcing it to
> India/Phillipines/China/where ever or to just can the whole damn thing.
>
> So since May of 2003 I've been waiting to hear what hell was going to
> happen.  In October we found out that they had already done testing with
> outsroucing with 2 countries and neither worked very well, and then to
> top it off, they made a deal to sell the Bankcard side of FNANB to
> Boston Fleet Financial.  Fleet was promptly bought by Bank OF America.
>
> I work for the Private lable side of FNANB and today we found out that
> we are being sold to Bank One which is currently merging with JP
> Morgan.  The good thing is that today I also found out that Bank One is
> very interested in keeping the IT staff here at FNANB.  Interested
> enough that Bank Ones HR people should be here next week to introduce
> themselves.  The bad news is that in order for this all to happen, we
> have to seperate from Circuit City's network completly.  This means
> buying about 13mil in new servers and networking equipment, Expanding
> the PBX room at my location and re-working all routing to become self
> sufficient and redundant.  Normally this kind of project would take
> about a year to a year and a half to compelete at a good pace.  We have
> untill the end of May this year to do it.
>
> So, as it looks right now, I get to keep my job, have advancement
> avenues with the new company possibly, but may not see my own home,
> wife, kid, garage or much of anything untill sometime in May as I'm
> almost sure I will be living here at work untill then.
>
> So for right now, I feel great, I'm happy as hell but now have to start
> working on disaster recovery plans, server migrations and a bunch of
> other shite.  Sorry for this being so long, but I just had to get it out
> of my system.
>
> William Snyder
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