Sooner or later the will to continue the project left the company… we were all given notice of redundancy sometime around 16th April. Hurrah!
Of course this leaves the project team slightly demotivated, and questions about the future viability of the project abound. There is a potential way out, but the talks to make that happen have not yet occurred.
A new CEO joins the company immediately after our notice is given… doubtless he is pondering the wisdom of letting go three of the most experienced engineers in the company….for nearly everyone else it is their first job after leaving university – they’re not stupid, just inexperienced. Its good to have a mixed team of junior and senior members from different backgrounds. One of the big problems with the company before its restructing was its heavy weighting toward Physics PhD people…this problem is worse after, not better. Still, at least its not my problem.