One view of the beginning of the end of that whole dot-com thingamajig.
Ah, well, the bubble had to burst sooner or later. The company let go 100 people today, 10 of them from this office. That sounds small…until you consider that we have about 50 people -=at=- this office.
Sorry. Make that “about 40” now.
There are times when I really like contract work. I can ignore office politics; I get more take-home pay; the benefits at this recruitment firm are rather competitive; and I live with my head on the chopping block, so having a contract terminated isn’t the traumatic affair that losing one’s regular/permanent employment is. I’ve become rather blase about the entire thing. It’s pretty normal now.
Still, it sucks. H.‘s birthday was two days ago. How nasty is that? Hi, you’ve just had another birthday (which H. made something of a big deal out of), now you’re fired. Have a nice day.
The weather’;s nice today, but I’ll bet that it’s wasted on H. and the other nine people who just got axed.
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