{"id":494,"date":"2026-05-17T17:34:27","date_gmt":"2026-05-17T08:34:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zawameki.org\/blog2\/?p=494"},"modified":"2026-05-17T17:34:28","modified_gmt":"2026-05-17T08:34:28","slug":"surge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/zawameki.org\/blog2\/2026\/05\/surge\/","title":{"rendered":"Surge"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>My company&#8217;s stock price has surged by 20% since around the time of the latest earnings call.<br>It&#8217;s huge as I have the share, which is close to 400k$. <br>Still far from FIRE, but I hope I can graduate from labor soon.<br><br>I got a 6% merit increase this time, which is close to 100M yen per year, so it seems my company is still thinking I&#8217;m able to contribute to their business.<br><br>Even with a 10+% increase in sales and profit with the stock surge, we have announced layoffs to cut about 4000 jobs.<br>Still, I&#8217;m not able to find a better company to move.<br>30M yen salary, full remote, opportunity to use Enlighs, discretionary work system, no overtime, etc.<br>There may be jobs available that have the same or better conditions, but I believe it&#8217;s not easy to find.<br><br>I submitted some topics to Cisco Live Melbourne 2026, but I&#8217;m not sure if they&#8217;re going to be chosen.<br>Anyway, those external events are more for sales and pre-sales. <br>Troubleshooting and escalation handling are not super hot for those events, and it&#8217;s too difficult for ordinary participants.<br><br><br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My company&#8217;s stock price has surged by 20% since around the time of the latest earnings call.It&#8217;s <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/zawameki.org\/blog2\/2026\/05\/surge\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-494","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-1"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/zawameki.org\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/494","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/zawameki.org\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/zawameki.org\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zawameki.org\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zawameki.org\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=494"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/zawameki.org\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/494\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":495,"href":"http:\/\/zawameki.org\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/494\/revisions\/495"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/zawameki.org\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zawameki.org\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zawameki.org\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}