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Pleasant surprise
24 May 2013 | by Today was a strange day. It was my last day at my current job at Goldman Sachs. I’ve been there just over six years, managing all the Technology Department inventory (servers and networking and storage equipment) for the offices of the NY/NJ Campus. I was the manager of the department responsible for receiving, inventorying, warehousing, and prepping for install a multi-billion dollar cache of equipment. I was also responsible for shipping re-purposed equipment both domestically and internationally. Believe me, you haven’t lived until you’ve been tasked with shipping millions of dollars of used equipment to places like Seoul, Sao Paolo, and Kuala Lumpur, and you were told it had to arrived undamaged (even though the original shipping containers had since long been discarded) and it had to arrive “yesterday”. I can proudly attest that in the six years that I was there, my department oversaw that inventory with a shrinkage percentage (loss due to theft, damage or mis-shipping) of less than 0.001%.
Last summer, Goldman felt that they had too many vendors, so they decided to downsize the number that they have on board. Our contract was farmed out to another vendor, and while my team was RIF’ed (reduction in force) I stayed on for six months to basically teach my replacements how to do the job. My actual employer is Pitney Bowes Management Services, and through them, I will be starting at a new, non-management (actually glad for that, for a change) position with IBM next week.
My co-workers, the other outside vendors (IPC, Scholes, EMC, CBRE) who also serve Goldman Sachs are the best. Totally unexpected, I walked into work this morning to find this waiting for me on my desk.
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Good luck in your new job, Larry!
Good luck with IBM, Larry! Drop me an internal mail when you are up on Notes, I am on Bluepages.
73,
Mitch DJ0QN
I think you meant “NG9D” not “ND9G”.
Good luck with your new gig Larry. I’m an “escapee” from the financial industry and, believe me, it’s a lot more fun being retired, working as a professional ham radio operator – HI. I know you’ll continue to do well.
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72,
Marc, W4MPS
Good luck with the new role Larry, from a fellow IT trench slugger!
73
Ger EI4GXB
Having been the recipient of what was called a “resource action”, I can say that it’s very cool you had a place to land. Having been a team lead (not nearly as much management duties as you had it sounds like), its been going to get back “in the trenches”. Best of luck, and here’s to you liking this gig as much as the last!