Here's a look at what DeltaHouse is like now. We are at about 50% of the amount of employees that we were when we were rocking and rolling. We've been steadily letting people go. But when it happened nobody was super-shocked.
Until the last time. We finally cut muscle and bone. The cuts were shocking to most Deltas. And I supposed I'd be shocked too, if I did help plan it. My favorite is that one of the employees that was cut started their own blog. And every day they talk about how much they are shocked that they were cut. And how people are calling them to ask for guidance. And they even dropped my favorite line, "frankly, I don't know how DeltaHouse is going to survive without me." We are doing just fine.
But for others, they were cut, and they won't go away...
They pop-in just to visit. To get lunch with an old co-worker friend. To see how things are going.
I really don't get it. But so far this week at DeltaHouse there have been not one, not two, not three, but FOUR ghosts.
Ghosts, to my new readers, are people who have been fired, have quit, or have been laid off.
Now, if (please, oh please, WHEN) the day comes that I leave DeltaHouse, and move to the status of ghost, you can bet your last dollar that I'm NEVER returning the DeltaHouse. Ever. I don't care if I left something gold-plated, they can keep it.
But our ghosts were in the past few days. Just to hang out and see how things were going, visiting friends, and catching up.
I think they are looking for any new faces so they can be mad that we didn't hire them back.
But I can't kick them out (I mean yes, I could, but still). That would put me just short of Darth Vader on the bad guy list.
And I guess they are looking for the community or work that they work sorely missing since they were laid off (that's what many of them were). But I just can't see the logic.
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