JZ not only got all the sleep, she got up early this morning to handle her Tuesday morning case conference of pediatric heart surgeons.

Which was pretty hard to imagine happening after Sunday morning's puke fest.

I took in her tea and toast (with clotted cream and apple butter) and overheard a bit of the case conference. (No HIPAA violations!)

One of the doctors was presenting her case and her voice was clear, and low and she enunciated everything. Very articulate.

But she was popping her "P's" like she's never had an audio engineer glare at her through a sound booth.

I'm in a bizarre laid-off-but-still-here limbo. My role has been eliminated but my end date isn't until October

This was me in 2021. I was formally told in July that my role was being eliminated but I’d known for months before that that it would be. I was really lucky to then get severance that lasted through the end of that year but I still haven’t found a new permanent job. I’ve done ok freelancing but it’s been a rough year emotionally. I’d never been fired or laid off before in my 40 year working life.

Huzzah for a good night’s sleep, JZ!!!

I can almost guarantee that none of these people have ever been inside a sound booth.

Now I want to start a podcast, called "PPPodcast", where all the guests are encouraged to pop their Ps as loudly as possible.

Do any of them commonly use headsets on the calls?

A good mic, and hearing your own voice the way it is being transmitted, makes a big difference, in my opinion.

One habit that I still fall into is always starting what I say with "Ah...." or "Um...." Legacy of my flying days, when the transmitter was voice-activated -- wanted to hear myself in my headphones to be sure that the mic was live before I actually said words.

Now I want to start a podcast, called "PPPodcast", where all the guests are encouraged to pop their Ps as loudly as possible.

"Our first guest on PPPodcast is Peter Pappadopalous and his polite peregrinations pursuant to Polly Pupplington's pacifism...."

This was me on Wednesday. And obviously HR can't release confidential employment details but with everyone being remote we can't *see* who's gone, and also I run an operations team so most of my past week has been figuring out who is left who knows how to *do all the things*.

I’d think they could give you a list of who is on staff.

I’d think they could give you a list of who is on staff.

I think it would be only reasonable to have an updated org chart...

I'm in a bizarre laid-off-but-still-here limbo. My role has been eliminated but my end date isn't until October because somebody needs to stick around and finish turning all the lights off. So I'm actively job hunting but also still at work.

Ugh, that seems terrible. I was just talking about how when I got fired, my boss said I could work the next two weeks or... not work and still get paid for the next two weeks. I said, "See ya, suckers!" wrote up an excellent memo, and left that day. But that was a very different situation.

This was me in 2021. I was formally told in July that my role was being eliminated but I’d known for months before that that it would be. I was really lucky to then get severance that lasted through the end of that year but I still haven’t found a new permanent job. I’ve done ok freelancing but it’s been a rough year emotionally. I’d never been fired or laid off before in my 40 year working life.

It's very hard! I hope you either feel more settled freelancing or find a permanent job.