Neil Hopcroft

A digital misfit

OK, so I was a little premature in calling the bottom, but only a month off. Rationalisation of the company occured in more or less the way I had predicted around six months ago, theres a few details that still need working out and I’m not going to talk about that here. It *is* a going concern, its just that I’m not part of it as of next month sometime. This makes it rather better than last time around.

There is some thinking to be done before my meeting with Kevin tomorrow to figure out what the future looks like – whether there is any possibility of rescuing my client from the ashes, and, if so, what could be done with it once its dusted down and dressed up in new clothes.

“This would, of course, in many ways, be fortuitous timing for such freedom.”

The timing has only gotten better since I wrote this – mostly because of the situation I alluded to in my going offline post, but which I won’t expand on in any more detail yet (mostly nothing to worry about on *my* side, the friends-only thing is an attempt at protection for other people involved in the situation for who seeing my ugly mug might cause rather more pain than necessary right now, I’ll open things up, including most of these friends-only posts, once I’m sure its not going to be painful any more. They are, incidentally, slightly filtered, so I’d prefer you don’t talk among yourselves unless you already know what is going on).

So now I have a bright new future again, one so wide open that anything goes. But it does put plans for a new car on hold for a little while, at least until I can see where the next meal is coming from.

12-Jul-2007: entry set ‘public’


8 comments

  1. I have no idea what’s going on, and all this crypticosity is beyond me. So I’ll stick to saying that I hope things go the way you want them to and it all comes out OK.

    :)

    • In many ways they already have come good for me (no need to worry about me, anything that isn’t alright in this situation has been brought by my own actions so I take full responsibility for it, indeed, its not like I’m particularly proud of that bit of the story)….but theres still a bit of an emotional time ahead…I’m not going to talk about the situation itself here until I’ve got better visibility on what is happening in other peoples heads.

  2. Oh, I don’t know, I quite enjoy it in a twisted sort of way, I imagine it might be bad if you couldn’t see it coming, but this is my second redundancy (and its not actually official yet, no notice letter yet) and looking somewhat less politically driven than the last one. (though it was clear six months ago that the investors had wrestled control away from those at the top of the company, it was just a matter of time before what they wanted happened)

    Future is looking good right now, including a potential contract in south of France which is worth pursuing just for proximity sake.

  3. Hey Dude,

    If you need me for anything you know I’m right here. Sometimes things just happen and we wish they didn’t – believe me, i am the master of this. I won’t be judging anyone and I want you to know that there’s always room for a Neil in Hangover cottage xxxx

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