This week has not been the best week with regards to receiving news. There have been a number of family things going on around me since earlier on this week, and yesterday it was my turn to have something happen, to receive my own bad news.
It is quite a long complicated story and I'm not quite sure what I details I should actually reveal so I'm going to keep things brief.
Yesterday, after what seemed to be a very good day, a day that was flying by, everyone at work was looking forward to the weekend and things were all going as normal. However at about 3ish o'clock our bosses return from some meetings and told us to head on over to the bar place across the road where we'd all had lunch together the week before.
Here's the point where I skip over a lot of the complicated details. After going over a number of things we found out that due to some dodgy investors withholding money the company, as of yesterday would officially stop trading as they no longer had money to cover anyone's salaries. This as you'd guess took everyone by surprise.
Weirdly, due to me currently just interning at the company and not yet having a full blown salary, I didn't feel as affected as I knew the others were. It was devastating to see the guys I work with during this chat as absolutely no one expected thus to happen. We were even making jokes on the way over to the bar saying "Oh were probably all getting fired", with no idea that that was actually what was kind of happening. Obviously we weren't being fired, and it wasn't our bosses fault it was due to these dodgy investor but the end result is still the same.
The weirdest part of all of this though, is that because it was not our bosses fault and because today we were meant to be launching a game, a game that everyone has been working on for a couple of months now, some if us are actually going to go back into work on Monday. This in the full knowledge that we will not be getting paid. Again as I said I technically don't get a wage anyway, just some expenses but it's still work people are volunteering to do, because of the effort they have put into making this game and because of the attachment they have to the other people there.
Unfortunately this came at the time in the month where my monthly ticket is just about to run out and where I should have gotten money through again to renew it. If I had gotten this money I would happily renew my ticket and continue to work there for another month helping where I could. As I said though, unfortunately come the middle if next week, it runs out, and I don't have the money to buy more tickets to go down there to just volunteer.
With all of this being said then, as it stands I am currently going back to the situation I was in last summer, updating my resume and back on the job hunt. I will however be going back to help these guys out until my ticket runs out, and if I can will try to work from home until some things else comes along, until the company decides to close up altogether or in the slimmest chance the company starts to come back together again.
Not how any of us imagined Friday to go, especially after the majority of the day went 100% like normal with no warning signs. In this year of firsts though its something I guess I can add to the list, plus my never been fired record still stands technically, so silver lining there. Let's just hope this round of job searching goes better then the last.
