Layoffs!

As much as I was complaining about software developers writing unnecessary complex code most of the time, my heart goes out to the same people today! My client laid off thousands of people today and most of those were from the IT departments. A black day in the history of my relationship with these people. It was very disheartening to hear that starting tomorrow morning, many of the people we had worked with over the past months will not be at their desks. The sad part in this whole affair is, this time around it is not the IT industry which is on a slump, yet it is the IT personnel who get the axe. I find it very unfair!

Apparently, the rate at which the projects are going to progress is going to be very slow; the projects will have to be rescoped. Since my program was not affected much, I hope the fixes I am expecting for my module and future analyses will not be affected.

All the best to everyone in their future endeavors!