Job Worries

Today we were told that our most senior development manager is to leave the company. This is in a week in which Suits from our biggest competitor were seen in the office, and a salesman who came from that company a few months ago has also left.

We know that the company owners are not adverse to selling us as last year we made a loss and we aren't even close to being a part of their core business (they practically said this at a public share holders meeting, so there is no doubt about this). Reading between the lines it seems a fair bet that we may be about to be sold to the opposition. If that happens then my guess is that only one or two of us will be kept on so as to keep the existing customers happy. As for the rest of us, well its not looking too clever, as I doubt that they will be interested in developing both their own product and ours, and somehow I think that that means that we will be closed down.

The most worrying bit is the resignation of the senior development manager. Has the sdm been involved in talks with the opposition, (if I were them I would want to know if there is any technology in our product that they could use)? And if the sdm has been talking to them, do they know that they will have no future if we are sold and so have jumped rather than waiting to be pushed?

I really don't know, but I'm not going to be buying that new car any time soon.