June 22, 2011

...June 22, 2011 - The Great Purge

Twenty-two people were fired yesterday.  And it started as soon as we got off the elevator. At 7:59am - the first two were down.

That's business.  And that just plain sucks.  Twenty-two (okay, well I think it's twenty-two...we tried to keep tally but, hey!  it was chaos, so step off.) is kind of a lot.  Poor little Drewser in HR was no doubt hitting up the extra sugar packets.

Getting canned is like taking it in the can, you just gotta grit your teeth and bear it.  I mean it's always nice to come out on top but hey, it's just as good to come from behind...er?  Yes.

"Oh you're still here?" - how charming.  MarkyMark was asked that literally 7 times.  He hasn't stopped crying, won't come out from under his desk.

Nothing gets a cubie through the mid-week stretch like the thought of unemployment.  Walking through the floors and cubes, you thought it was judgement day in Pharoah's Egypt.  Or the Terminator series...but given the recent split between the 'Gov'na of Calee-forn'ya' and Maria Shriver, it just doesn't seem right.  This is people's lives we're talking about!

Now everyone who's still around is thanking Google and Steve Jobs for their livelihood.  But really, everyone who had to kiss the K-cup machine good-bye is probably - no, definitely - better off (trust me, if there's one thing you miss it's without a doubt: the free instant coffee).

As for me.  I'm taking the high road and two days of my paid vacation.

...or am I???  DUN DUN DUNNNNNNNNNN.