A DAY OF SURPRISES

Last week was a two day week for me, since I was on leave for three days due to my bronchitis treatment. I joined on Thursday only to find that so many issues had been pending. So Friday was a mad mad day, sending status reports, metrics, issue trackers, response of which were awaited on Monday, since Thursday and Friday were bank holidays in US due to the Thanksgiving.

Monday there were no mails at all, no updates on issues, nobody available on the sametime too. We idly waited till 8 and left after leaving a reminder mail.

I come office this morning, I open my mail box and there is a farewell mail from my onsite co-ord. Had he resigned???…I speak to my team mates, nobody seems to know anything. Four other people have been released from our project too, including my manager. It’s believed to be due to cost cutting measures.
We have a release scheduled this Friday, we have been learning web services all these days for a new requirement coming in Jan, there are quite some issues to be fixed in the application…what about all that.

My mail box has a meeting invitation from my client late in the evening today. Is he going to say that we are also getting released? Oh this suspense is killing. I don’t want a release from this project. I have loved this place. Let’s see how the call goes. The future is unsure as of now.

Sigh!!!

UPDATE 3rd Dec 2008:
Seems we are safe as of now. Some people from onsite have been sent back and also a few people from offshore have been released due to cost cutting measures. But seems our team is supposed to hang on for a while. The application release is still schedule n Friday the 5th and we are supposed to fix all pending issues in the next three days.
Quite a relief though.