Announcement

The announcement was made as promised at 10. It was a little worse that I expected (although it was promised our office would not be directly affected), but the other 2 offices need to loose over 30 bodies between them. They are hoping to perform this either from voluntary redundancy or by internal moves to other dept. We also have to complete a skills matrix and attend an interview next week. I was told this was an exercise to ensure that the headquarters knew exactly what our skill sets were, and an opportunity to apply to join a global task force (which doesn't interest me greatly). The personnel colleague who attended didn't answer questions particularly well and as a result there is a lot of confussion about what the interview is truely for. This was of course quashed immediately by the office manager (NOT)