Pacificapocalypse

Yeah the post title has absolutely nothing to do with the actual post, but how often do you get the chance to insert random Doors lyrics?

SF Chronicle announced - Part V: The Aftermath
Okay, so the final tally is something like 30 people from the business side have taken the buyout and are already gone; there are ( that I know of ) another three or four that have applied for and been accepted for the buyout but they’re still on-site for a number of different reasons ( training replacements, that sort of thing).
My old department has been eviscerated. And I mean that in the technical sense in that the internal organs have been removed leaving and empty shell of a carcass. I started with the Chron three years ago; when I was hired my department was made up of 14 people, some outside people, some inside people, some dealing with agencies.
As of this morning there are three people remaining.
Where once, there was enough business to support a 14 person department, there’s now only enough for three. Like a jumper of the Golden Gate, the business has just dropped out of sight.
Pretty friggin’ tragic.

Oh yeah and I’m no longer *in* my old department.
I’ve been transferred to a whole ‘nother part of the business. It’s been busy ( hence the lack of and intermittent posting ) which is good, makes the days go by quickly.
The training has been pretty much what I expected. None.
But at least I already know all the back end systems that make this multi-media behemoth function.
A whole new group of people to charm and subvert to my will; it’ll take time, but that’s ok.
I have all the time in the world.

Previous episodes of this sordid tale here:

SF Chronicle buyouts announced
SF Chronicle buyouts announced - Part II: The Reckoning
SF Chronicle buyouts announced - Part III: The Long Descent
SF Chronicle buyouts announced - Part IV: The Death March