Maius Intra Qua Extra

So it's Thursday already. I really wanted to post a review of "The Legend of Ruby Sunday", but I never got around to it and the second half comes out tomorrow, so I figured, why bother now? Also, it was going to be "just a few comments, but not a full review because I don't want to really say anything until we get the full story", so no loss there.

I will say that I really enjoyed the episode, and that I'm not sure it that it didn't open up more questions than it managed to answer. Omg, what is up with Mrs Flood? And I loved the listing of the pantheon! The Mara! Can't wait to meet Reprobate. Yes, I have theories, but it's not worth the time to discuss them now, when we'll have real answers in about eighteen hours.

As soon as the episode was over, we popped in "Pyramids of Mars", and that was enjoyable, too. I remember watching it very early on in my nascent obsession with DW and not finding it particularly interesting or good, but now, after many years and a lot more DW education, I really enjoyed it. And now I'm prepared for the new episode tomorrow.

But the real reason things have been a mess this week is because we got thrown another curveball at work. Without going into detail here, the client company, after finally revealing their new plan which cut their only productive division (the one we mostly work for) in half and causing us to lay off nearly half our people, decided not a month later to pivot again and cut the division entirely. They're shutting down the division's product - the only product they've created in over two years that actually works and is complete - and dismissing the workers. They're keeping the division that spent those two years squabbling with itself and failing to produce anything workable.

I highly suspect this is a political move, that the directors of the other division, who have more political clout and need to preserve their own jobs, convinced the C-level people that they could re-create our division's product cheaply and quickly, and using the tech that C-level people favor (which happens to be older, less powerful tech as well). Time will tell if that's the case, and if it is, it's not likely to succeed. After all, they were unable to produce their own working software; why should we expect them to be able to produce something that they have no knowledge about? And they're not even going to build on what already exists. They're actually getting rid of all the people who know how to do what they want to do.

But, this does mean that our company is in trouble. At this point, our C-levels are trying to find ways to occupy people so that we don't have to lay people off. They said that they're not laying people off immediately, that it'll be something like three months before that will have to happen, and they have some leads, so they're optimistic at least for some people.

It's very likely that I'll be first on the chopping block, since I'm not a dev, no one wants QA as the first people on a project, and there are other project managers that would be more qualified to manage any projects that come in (my husband being one of them). But I'm really not bovvered. I'm back to the state of "whatever happens happens, and I'll be glad to have some time to devote to my own life".