Dear Peter,

This is my feedback to the Asterisk restructuralisation that happend
over the past few weeks and some comments about HR work.

Do you remember one of the first meetings sometime in November where you
told us that after we lost the AirNZ deal, a new role within Gen-i/Telecom
was found for about 90% of the "redundant" employees? Although we in
Asterisk expected some of us would have to go we all felt pretty safe
after these words. After all - how many thousands employees are there in
the Telecom group? To move one person from one department to another
shouldn't be a big problem within these masses of people, should it?

After the proposal has been made to reduce the number of Asterisk
engineers from 7 down to 4 I decided to be nice. Nice to my coworkers
who wished to stay in the Asterisk group more than me. And as well nice
to you or HR or whoever had to decide who to keep and who to make
redundant. That's why I haven't insisted on being in the future Asterisk
group. Instead I expressed my interest to be *moved* to a software
development team in Gen-i or to another suitable role in a Telecom
group during the meeting with you and Kevin White in December. Having
your example of ex-AirNZ support team in mind I believed it's just a
simple question of actually moving me somewhere else.

How was my surprise that I actually got a redundancy notice the last day
before Xmas! Anyway, later that day both Lawrence and Yvette talked to
me and once again assured me that my skills are valuable for
Gen-i/Telecom and that I shouldn't worry too much about actually being
kicked out.

I had an appointment with Yvette on wednesday, January 11, i.e. the
third working day this year. Once again I expressed my interest to be
moved into the Software development team and once again was assured that
Gen-i will likely find something for me. Some other HR person should
have contacted me within next few days to tell me about the possible
opportunities. As noone called during the next week and a half I sent
Yvette an e-mail last friday (20th) asking what's going on.

Finally this tuesday, four days before my last day here, someone from
Gen-i HR called me and basically told me there are no suitable roles.
But offered me to send my details from Gen-i HR to the Telecom HR 
for consideration. Four days before I leave! Oh thanks a lot! Honestly,
I expected this to happen right after the early January meeting with
Yvette. Is this the way to "do your best efforts to keep the existing
employees"?

Moreover I have never been contacted w.r.t the software development
team. I told different people three times (!) I was interested - 1) when
reapplying for engineering position on December 8th, 2) when talking to
you and Kevin White and 3) finally in January to Yvette again. I never
heard back from anyone about this. If I had an interview for such role
and failed, then OK, but I haven't even got a chance!

Of course I'm actively looking for another job since I got the notice,
but January isn't apparently the best time. I'm regularly getting
autoresponses to my e-mails with CV stating that the appropriate persons
are on holiday and would contact me "asap" (usually late january or in
february). Maybe that's why I wasn't given another chance in Gen-i,
perhaps everybody are on holiday? Unfortunately this bad timing isn't my
choice.

I understand three of us engineers had to go and I'm not too sad that
one of them is me. That's a life. I'm just very disappointed that all
those big words about "will try to keep you very hard" finally turned
into one single short phone call from HR person two days ago who didn't
even know I was interested in the software development and offered me
a role of MS Windows administrator... Bad joke?

Anyway I wish Gen-i a good luck on the Open Source field!

Best regards,

Michal Ludvig