There is no doubt that I was quite worried when my buddy and I were first sent house from the zone controlled Heating & A/C of the office.
Of course, I’m talking about the beginning of the pandemic.
I was extra worried because our business has been struggling for years. So when the pandemic sent us all house to toil for my own central air conditioner, I entirely wondered what would happen. It didn’t take long for the layoffs to began. For at least a year prior, the business had been reorganizing in order to put a more appealing face on the business to sell it. There were plenty of salary dumps when it came to the executive level. And there are a lot of forced retirements as well. While I wasn’t necessarily close to retirement, I felt the pressure that I might get split as well. But then, my buddy and I were well into the Summer of 2020 & the layoffs stopped. I just kept doing my toil & trying to do the best with my team from the central air conditioner of my home. But by that fall I was the next one to get dumped. I got a bit of a severance package however that was it. After more than 20 years working for that corporation, no one even reached out to personally say goodbye. But that sort of lit a fire underneath me. So I had the Heating & A/C business come out & install a ductless heat pump in my current house office. And I got to toil competing against the business that had just unceremoniously dumped me. I toil as an industry analyst for the competitors of my outdated corporation. And it feels nice to cherish the best residential Heating & A/C in my current house office while competing against my own corporation.