Many thanks to everyone who's responded. It really means a lot to me.
> One angle to consider is that perhaps the company was looking at your > drumming up business for Pentax as a way to keep you on - if the > response was good enough, then there might be a place for you. As it > stands, that did not seem to happen. I actually got seven pre-orders for the K10D and various accessories just from PDMLers, was expecting a couple more once the camera was in the store, and had a couple deposits from walk-in customers too. The idea to sell Pentax stuff here was mine, from when I heard the store was trying to put together some sort of deal with Pentax. Apparently Pentax is doing what Olympus did a few years ago, which was to try to work more with specialty shops and local camera stores than the big box stores. The idea is that the smaller stores are having a harder time getting Canon and Nikon gear (since those companies send most of their stuff to the big box stores for various reasons, which I can go into at depth if you like), so the smaller players like Olympus and Pentax are trying to move into those vacant spots. It worked very well for us with Olympus, and I was hoping it would work well for us with Pentax too. Sadly, I no longer get to be a part of that. Getting back to my point, I don't think the Pentax dealings had anything to do with being laid off. Matter of fact, just last week he was putting together an "Inside Your Pentax dSLR" class to add to our class roster this December, and he was going to have me be one of the teachers for it. I'm sure the class will still happen, if any NorCal PDMLers are interested, but I don't think I'll be a part of it now. Anyway. Right now I'm working on getting my Mustang sold this week and calling up people I know who may be hiring or know people who are hiring. I don't want to be jobless too long, or I'll get lazy. Thanks again, everyone. John Celio -- http://www.neovenator.com AIM: Neopifex "Hey, I'm an artist. I can do whatever I want and pretend I'm making a statement." -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
