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So for those of you that didn’t already know I work for Northwest Airlines and last night I found out that they announced a merger agreement with Delta Airlines. Now normally I wouldn’t be too worried about a merger with a company however Delta is based out of Atlanta, GA. Not the kind of place I’d want to be for work, or living for that matter.

So last night I was up extremely late, couldn’t sleep, tons of shit going through my head, basically something that I normally don’t do. If you know me at all, I am a pretty easy going guy and take life as it goes, and try not to stress about things all that much. well the merger announcement last night got me worrying.

Would I still have a job after the merger? Would I have to move to Atlanta? would I even move to Atlanta? If I did what would it take for incentives to get me to move? Things like that, questions just kept going over and over and over in my head. I swear I have never had a sleepless night like that before.

When I first started working for Northwest I was just there to make a quick buck, teh pay was great, the job was easy, and I really enjoyed the things I was doing. Eventually I got more settled in and realized I really could work here for the rest of my life and make a career out of this job. So I was content with what I was doing. I love the job, love the pay, relatively good benefits (when I could use them) but over all it was a job I was happy with and felt good about the job I was doing and felt like I was actually accomplishing things.

So back to the Merger, now we have the merger announcement between NWA and Delta. I got to work this morning, had several “pep rally” type meetings trying to get people excited about the merger and how “great” this will be and how we can merge our “synergies” and all that BS. Between watching our fearless leader, Doug, on the new with our eventual new leader “Mr. Anderson” (had to how in the Matrix plug there) talking again how great this merger will be and how great it will be for the companies as a whole. Well through out this entire pep rally, so called moral booster, I am still like “yea well what the fuck is going to happen with my job” “where to I fit in with this grand plan”?

So now the day goes on, I get an email from my direct boss saying he would like to meet up with all of us in our office before we leave for the evening. So around 4pm today I go into his office and get the same old “hooora” pep speech from my boss, then come to find out I get a raise are part of my “performance review” but I honestly think this was a ploy to keep people from quitting and finding new jobs else where. We also got information about if we stayed with the company through the “approval period” that I would get a nice 20% bonus (based off of my base salary pay) well great I get a raise and will get a bonus in 8 – 9 months but what will that give me in the long run? Still doesn’t mean I will have a job when this is all said and done.

It just sucks being in this situation, not knowing where you’ll be in the grand scheme of things. But in the end I just have to ride the wave, take it as I get it and hope for the best. So for now wish me luck and hopefully I’ll still have a job to pay for this site to stay up and running.

Till next time,

- Josh