Direct impacts to the merger to my work

Well, given it has been a year, here are some highlights:

• I always wanted to work on a large bank merger. The last two large ones I missed out completely. For Wachovia – First Union the area I was in had very little merger impact. I assumed that I would be on the winning side, so being on the losing side has been different
• The work I am doing will literally be used by the entire bank – the call centers, the branches, the IVR will leverage the work.
• The work has been intense
• I have met a lot of new team mates who I really like
• Got to see Minneapolis – cool city
• Working from home more – the work is almost exclusively almost all the time

Some lowlights:

• Much of the work of the last 5 years will be blown away – not sure ho much but the guess is in 5 years almost none will be around – some will influence the future, while some will just cease to exist
• People i like have left, either voluntarily or involuntarily – with more to come -