This World Cup photo is really in need of a caption. Post your best shot! (Found via Flog, and I really wish I knew the original source.)

Our company is in the process of being acquired by another company. The merger transition will be July 1, and orientation meetings have already begun.

The good news is that I will still have a job. The bad news is that the new company has no sabbatical leave benefit.

This continues the annoying trend of my never receiving the rewards of long tenure with a single company. Just before I reached 5 years with our first parent company, which would have entitled me to a week of extra vacation and a bonus, we were acquired by our current parent. As a result, I got nothing—no tenure bonus program, and the extra week of vacation doesn't come until 8 years.

Then, with the current company, I finally discover the ill-publicized paid sabbatical leave option, available every 5 years, and it is denied.

Now, with the new company, still no extra week of vacation, still no tenure bonus, and now no sabbatical either.

Mergers suck.

I am so looking for a new job, so if you know of any good leads, let me know. I can do pretty much anything in the technology sector, and I'm a fair hand at photography, design and music as well.

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