Depleting Dining Table Size…

I am going to discuss what recession has meant to me…

I deal with IT projects means I deal with team members whenever I am out of my cube – not facing the flat screen and hitting the keys to pass 0s and 1s to Intel brain to make it think and help business use semiconductors to conduct business. (I read kind of similar analogy in some magazine couple of years ago.)

I was in US when Lehman Brothers decided to inaugurate so called Great Depression. The inauguration was so grand that other financial institutions in US did not have patience and rushed to show their pockets empty. Then came time when mergers and takeovers inundated the US financial sectors. With financial sectors going bankrupt, other industries felt the heat and started amputating IT infra.

It is at this stage when recession started taking toll on me. Don’t rush to conclude that I lost the job. Recession to me was depleting dining table size. Layoffs laid team members off the office dining table and there was a time when I used to dine alone at that table.

I was switched to new client and the same has started happening at this new dining table. With few members left in the team, to avoid feeling unused seats at the table, we have switched to a smaller table. Hope time does not come again that I will have to dine alone…

But nevertheless, recession can never devoid me of my best friend – one with Samsung face, Intel brain and remaining Logitech parts!!