The Unemployed Buddhist
There isn’t much Buddhism in this blog post, but I wanted to give an update.
It’s been a while since I’ve written a new article for this series. The reason that I haven’t written is that with the exception of our normal ups and downs, there has been very little to write about.
One of the best/worst things about a small business is that things can change very rapidly.
Lately, it seemed like our company was beginning to see light at the end of the tunnel, and in some ways, it was.

As I’ve said before, the Captain loathes the idea of cutting salaries, people etc. He really has done as much as he can to avoid reductions, but at some point, it becomes the only solution.
It really has been a roller coaster ride over the past year, I can see the emotion in my coworkers as their livelihood moves between some stability and completely threatened, as if strapped to the side of some sadistic Yoyo masters Duncan, while he ‘shoots the moon’.
I’m not trying to be overly dramatic in this article, in fact I write with some hesitation, simply because things do change so quickly in this company. Today several employees were notified that they would no longer work a regular forty hour week, Monday, who knows, they might be told that we hit the freakin lottery, and that the drinks are on the house.
I’ve been meeting with the Captain quite a bit over the last few days and from our conversations, I gather that one of our major divisions is having serious financial difficulties, enough so, that we will likely allow it to go into chapter 11.
We have other divisions that are doing pretty well, and the focus for the future will be on those divisions; most likely as a new business entity.

At the moment my job is not threatened, as a matter of fact, currently the captain and I are negotiating a possible partnership for the new ‘entity’. But again, who knows, by Monday this could be entirely different, and I have been on this ride long enough to know that it ain’t over yet.

I began this series expecting the eventual end of my employment here; I still can’t say that won’t happen I hope it won’t. The series has been much different than I had anticipated; I really thought it would be about my reaction to unemployment.
Hopefully, you will continue reading the series, as we work through the next phase of our company’s evolution.

Ambud

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