Oy. RIF at work today, and I am in the grip of survivor's guilt.
My department was decimated; three are gone. One person left voluntarily for the severance package. The other two losses were mandated by budget cuts, and with their departure the company has deprived itself of its most experienced, knowledgeable, skilled, and level-headed people. Both are older than I, and primary support for their families.
I'm not actually safe. There may well be further cuts this week. Right now I don't know if I want to stay or go, but it is too late for me leaving to save one of my friends his job.
Oh jeez, that's tough. Hard on the RIF'ed and hard on those left.
Aw, man, dcp. Take care of yourself.
Baltimore's ACS just came out. Fascinating stuff on the changes in my neighborhood (designated the Waverlies. It's actually a rather odd boundary. If I were drawing the lines, would be a little different and some of the demographs would be ...different.) And now I can't find the link nor how I got it...
..I just was asked the backstory of Kosovo. Mental whiplash. I read and wrote so much about the whole Yugo collapse in the 90s that I wished I had a 'fmr' key on my keyboard. My brother was part of KFOR stationed in Macedonia (hey, where DID my Skopje plate go??) I have a ridiculous number of books on the subject, And yet, for a moment I was all DER.
dcp, I'm kinda glad you don't have to face the option of taking a hit to save someone else's job. Not a easy decision to make.
It's kinda weird having a twitch I can't see. But I can certainly feel my muscles fluttering over the scapula.
omg hate everything and this is with mac behaving today (not really helping much at all, but behaving). 6:30 til now, only real break was lunch and that was rushed so I could make a meeting that I was unprepared for because it got moved up 2 hours. Cat has peed on stuff the last 3 days, dog is still here, I have like 5 more things I need to get done tonight and make mac's lunch for tomorrow. I am dead tired and my parents keep asking about stuff I have not done and managing to make me feel like a complete failure for my lack of it.
what is that GD law forms site. I need to get some shit in order before I go on this business trip.
legalzoom, msbelle? Sorry for the bad day.
legalzoom?
What forms do you need? I can help look.
medical power of attorney and I might as well get a living will and whatever else a responsible parent would have.
got the medical power of attny from another site. almost done with it.
updated the freaking family on the bullet points of what I have done, what I know I have not done yet and what possible might need to be done that I will try to control to impact them the least. FREAKING PARENTS!
