Thoughts: 01-January-2010

Happy New Year to one and all, hopefully 2010 will be an improvement on 2009, it cannot get any worst can it?

2009 started off with Pfizer, the company I work for, laying off a number of workers in our department. That day in January 2009 was spent checking the email for the call to see a manager or the call to attend a group meeting for the survivors. I got the email for the group meeting and along with the other folk, thought that we were save for a couple of years.

Then the next day, we get the news that Pfizer is thinking of buying Wyeth which quickly became a reality. So the year was spent worrying about site closings, layoffs, and then the dreaded re-organization. Why is it that we are promised a delayering of management, but what happens is that one manager gets fired and is replaced by two? Maybe the Hydra from Greek mythology has transformed itself into the modern corporation.

Anyway, the Groton site stayed open, I get to kept my job for the moment, and we have a massive lab restructure which may result in new reporting relationships. My boss of 24 years, who hired me back in October 1986, is in charge of the lab that I was assigned to, I may still get to report to her or maybe to one of the new PhDs under her command. Our new CSO (chief scientific officer) expects PhDs to actually go into the lab and run experiments. This should be amusing.

2010 here we come.

ABC added big time insult to the few fans of the show Eastwick. It seems that they decided to skip an episode between the one that aired on Dec. 16 and the one that aired on Dec 30. We had a big time cliffhanger with Roxie kidnapped by Jamie and about to be killed, Darryl Van Horne knocked out, Kat whose life energy was drained by her healing was bleeding heavily into her bathtub, and Joanna and Max were placed in a paralysed state and were helpless. Now I know the show was cancelled, but could you at least telecast the remaining episodes in the proper order. Hell, show them on Saturday night like you did with Pushing Daisies and Dirty Sexy Money. I give the Dec. 30 telecast (Episode 12 since 11 was not shown) a B in that the show tied up the cliffhangers and started a different direction with some secrets of certain new characters being slowly revealed.

Penn State meets LSU in the Capital One Bowl today, I am picking LSU to win 36-14 as Penn State has not done well in these big games.

Oh well.