Here I am. This is me.
Define blue.
havent been back to farnham for quite sometime. today on the way back from work i stopped by the old diagonal hang-out pub "hog's head" (now slugs and lettuce) for a fellow colleague's leaving do. this place is a traditional spot for diagonal's veteran farewell events, the old office is just across the street.
Smiley's finally decided to move on after 6 years being with diagonal, and heading to cap gemini... he's not entirely excited bout it, but morse's way of running things have driven his patience paper thin. they wrote him a card "to sniffer" scribbled with loads of "interesting lines and symbols", and attached an envelope full of useless stuffs like sticky notes, train ticket, receipts, coins, pebbles, buttons, pen cap, screwdriver etc... :D. infact, we've lost a truckload of good people recently... new management pulled a stupid move which pisses most of everyone off, so now everyone in the market knows it's open season for diagonal-morse employee. roger and tms went to sap, pete w. went contracting, asigbetse had enough and decided to stop working and go travel, mureli and squirrel gone contract... and most recently pete "god" deverx, daz and skeats... and so is barry, bill, pete l., fiona, brian, tadj for the support side (and jamie, mark, anna sometime back). we're lost almost all the top-notch ppl we had, all whom has been with diagonal for 7 year or more, and all whom i enjoyed so much working with.
also turned up was victoria (ironicly her farewell was at the same place 2 and a half years ago), got it from her that Mark is now a trainer in SAP (just as he always wanted)... good for the guy. what's surprising today is that half the ppl who turned up were those who've already left, resigned, or going to resigned. some asked me to jump onto the recent resigning spree, onto the cool-gang bandwagon... or why not apply for a seperate green card and join other companies. well, in due time my friends, all in due time. :)
office will be much more quiet now. wishing everyone the very best in the roads ahead!
note to self : if i'm to go long term here, may want to look up for the guys at bluefin. which operates like diagonal used to, before morse came into picture.
- posted by Shin @ 5/04/2007 06:59:00 AM :
