"Surreal 36 hours" Topic

Wow, what a surreal and sad last 36 hours. 10:30AM yesterday we were informed that our pharmacy had been sold. Here it is just after 10:30PM Saturday and my former employer no longer exists except in memory. We closed for good today at 3PM and by 9PM all stock and files were transferred to the buyer and my new employer. The space where I spent 1/3 of the last 4 years is now empty of all but major fixtures, a few hanging wires, and little scattered bits of the debris of a major move.

I've been involved with both sides of a couple pharmacy sales before, but never one this fast and this surprising. Looking back we had a few little signs over the last month, and we knew something big was brewing earlier this week, but this just blew the 6 of us who were employees away.

The bright side of the whole deal is all of us including my boss are moving over as a group to the buyer. In light of the current economy it's a better hand than we could reasonably expect.

It's a surreal feeling when you actually on the whole enjoy a job, like your employers, and have great customers and in 36 hours pack it up and are there when the lights are turned out for the last time.

I'd be rather upset if I were a regular customer and came in Monday morning to pick up a monthly 'scrip only to find that my regular place was just…gone.

Sad story.

I was on my holidays once, got a message to phone the MD, he said something 'Yes, Robert, I asked you to phone me because I had a question about…. but that doesn't matter now as I've decided to close the company today'!

About mid summer, my wife found out that the restaurant she worked at for 12 years was closing, when her and my daughter happened to take a walk downtown one morning. It opened for business that morning, posted a sign that it was their last day and that was it. The business was sold to a local chain, 30-some people were out of work and would be considered by the new owner for employment (what a joke that turned out to be). AT least 7 of the employees didn't find out until showing up for work one or two days after the closing. For my wife, the experience was very strange, surreal is probably the perfect word. She feels like she lost a close friend or family member, haunted by its ghost whenever we pass by there.

irishserb, I feel for your wife. That seems to be the norm though in the restaurant business. Most don't even tell the employees they are closing, you just show up for work and the place is closed. The next problem is getting that last paycheck. Must be pretty unnerving to be happily on your way to work then find out you don't have a job anymore.