My journals from 1984 until now
Thursday 20th June 2002 More shocking news at Riversoft (never ends). Yesterday we were told that the company was being taken over by Micromuse (our ‘archenemy’, the company Phil T. had worked for before founding Riversoft). The financial situation is so bad, and the markets so negative, that apparently, that was the best course of … Read more
Monday 7th May 2002 Hello again… On the day I heard about my meagre 3% pay rise I got upset, nearly walked out, just before the Easter break. Then I complained… For some reason I had been put on a band (they were calculating the pay rises according to which band an engineer would fit … Read more
Monday 8th of April 2002 – Redundancies I’m at work today with not a lot to do… A lot has happened over here in the last couple of months… Twenty more people have been made redundant last month. I managed to escape again, but we lost 3 engineers, one of them Raj, who was employee … Read more
Saturday 22nd December 2001 – A tale of two parties Two parties have been and gone: Riversoft’s Christmas party and your 3rd birthday party. Riversoft’s party was ok, your birthday party was great! I went to Riversoft’s party with Caren as I didn’t want to take R. with me, given the events of last year. … Read more
Wednesday 1st of August 2001 It’s getting harder and harder to write. I’ve just not made the effort… Well, what’s happened since last February? Not much has changed, really. We went to Costa Brava at the beginning of July for a week, and that was quite nice. The three of us had a great time. … Read more