filed for bankruptcy in mid-January<\/a>. For the past month, since mid-May, I have been working for Diamond under a Transition Services Agreement (or TSA); the company was bought by Ad Populum, but I remained employed by Diamond.<\/p>\n\n\n\nThe TSA ends this coming Monday, on June 30th, and that will be my last day with Diamond.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The good news is, on Thursday I was offered a job with Ad Populum to begin on July 1st. The offer emails rolled out over the afternoon, and some people on my team had received their offers before Marketing’s weekly Teams meeting, while others had not, and seeing coworkers receive their offer emails in real time during the meeting was very much like seeing them find a Willy Wonka Golden Ticket.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
For now, I will do what I’ve been doing for the past eighteen years, and I will continue working hybrid from home and the former Diamond Select Toys offices in Hunt Valley. That may change. I don’t know yet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
There’s some onboarding on Tuesday — complete paperwork and benefits enrollment, Zoom call to learn about the payroll system, that sort of thing. I’ve never used Zoom.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Pay remains the same, PTO is less (due to accruals and elevators over eighteen years–I thought they might have grandfathered in the elevators), but health benefits are much<\/b> cheaper. (Diamond HR was always a bit snarky about that, too, openly saying in the annual open enrollment period that they were cost shifting to the employee as much as they legally could. I really think if Larry Swanson could have gotten away with offering no<\/i> health insurance, he would have.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I haven’t started a new job in eighteen years. I don’t know what I should wear for my first day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n\n\n\nPeter Capaldi appeared with Scottish band Franz Ferdinand at Glastonbury yesterday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n