Yikes, sorry to hear about the layoff Tom. As others have said, hopefully this will work out for the best and let you score a new job that will be fulfilling and enjoyable for you.
Giles: I'm sure we're all perfectly safe. Dawn: We're safe. Right. And Spike built a robot Buffy to play checkers with. Tara: It sounded convincing when I thought it.
'Dirty Girls'
Natter 69: Practically names itself.
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Matt the Bruins fan - Jan 31, 2012 11:21:58 am PST #19365 of 30001
Oh honey, the mentally unwell people have been in the fanbase since Game Changers was Stucky fanfiction on the internet. The calls have been coming from inside the house the whole time!
Jesse - Jan 31, 2012 11:33:53 am PST #19366 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Tom, I've also been thinking about the time I decided I was going to quit my job, like six months in the future, and then I got fired the next week. I was SO PISSED and hurt and everything else, even though I hated that fucking place by then. "I'm not fired! I QUIT!!" Anyway, just saying.
Kat - Jan 31, 2012 11:37:34 am PST #19367 of 30001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
Pertussis outbreak = no good. Jeebus, Amy.
My nose is runny and I feel like shit. But it's finals week and I have to be here every day. Yay for forced stockpiling of sick days?
Oh! If I take two more sick days, then I have to retire a year later.
Zenkitty - Jan 31, 2012 11:47:18 am PST #19368 of 30001
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.
Oh! If I take two more sick days, then I have to retire a year later.
...what? Are you serious?
Jesse - Jan 31, 2012 11:55:26 am PST #19369 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Yeah, what?
sumi - Jan 31, 2012 12:00:52 pm PST #19370 of 30001
Art Crawl!!!
That's just bizarre, Kat.
How does that work?
amyth - Jan 31, 2012 12:05:16 pm PST #19371 of 30001
And none of us deserving the cruelty or the grace -- Leonard Cohen
Kat, that's messed up.
Burrell - Jan 31, 2012 12:17:15 pm PST #19372 of 30001
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!
I wish I was surprised Kat, but knowing your employer, I'm not.
I think--I hope!--I just successfully talked a student out of writing a paper comparing medical residency to comedy writing and/or sex. Oy vey!
P.M. Marc - Jan 31, 2012 12:40:34 pm PST #19373 of 30001
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
Zenkitty, here is my bookmarked Pick-Me-Up link. [link]
billytea - Jan 31, 2012 1:00:26 pm PST #19374 of 30001
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
Tom, I was in a very similar position about three years ago. I'd been with my company for fourteen years, the job had turned somewhat toxic over the last few, I got laid off in the wake of the GFC, and thanks to my length of service, my severance was enough to take stock for a bit. I don't know how you're feeling about it right now (my reaction turned out to be relief), but in any case, I hope that when you find your next job, you look back on this as a positive occurrence.
One thing I'd suggest, either in addtiion to or in lieu of the headhunting idea - you might find it helpful to talk to an outplacement firm. I found it very helpful in sorting out just what shape I wanted my next career move to take, and what I could find in the job market. (One caveat - my firm arranged for outplacement services for everyone who was laid off, so I don't know what it'd cost out of your own pocket.)