After nearly 30 years at the Los Angeles Times, I will be leaving in October. Not with a heavy heart. They have out-sourced my 2nd department; I've been in 2 other departments and they are both gone or shadows of their old selves. Maybe it's good for The Times that I leave now before I bring down the house. If it hasn't already been brought down.
Everybody says as they leave The Times that it's the people they will miss and that is certainly true for me. There is a whole building full of good friends at Times Mirror Square (a name NOT approved by the tribune company). The nice thing is that I will be given parting gifts; not parting gifts like the executives get as they leave, no rolling in clover for this work horse. Instead, I get to have a very interesting 9 months. And in my book, that is a great parting gift.
I supervise the computer Help Desk for employees and, you guessed it, our jobs are being outsourced to India. I'm not going to write now about the group that is being outsourced, just to say that they are the hardest working people I know. They will do well wherever they go. For now, we are working on the transition.
We have two people from Bangalore working with us now. Four others will be visiting all the other tribune publishing properties throughout the United States. Then, in April, I will be traveling to India for 11 weeks to help make sure they treat our people right. Now, that's what I call a parting gift.
I love to travel and have written emails to a bunch of friends about each journey. Most notable was the barge trip in France last June with my sister, her husband and my son. We had too much fun, which I wrote about every day. So why not a blog about two and a half months in India.
We'll see how this goes. For the next seven weeks I'll be practicing on the transition team and what we're doing in Los Angeles so the blogs from India will be complete.
Keep your fingers crossed.
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