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Thursday, November 11, 2004

Layoffs a comin'

Well, it was confirmed in the newspaper today that layoffs are coming to Office Depot, my employer. Layoff story Rumor has it that 600 people will be let go tomorrow. We'll see.

Funny thing happened today during our division staff meeting. The VP usually takes questions at the end and she was joking today about not taking questions because of the layoff rumors/article. As the last director got up to give his report I said, "Make sure you leave time for questions." She said, "No, Jeff, I want you to go slow and long." Everyone cracked up. It was a funny moment in the middle of the layoff crap.

On the upside, its the first annual reunion of the destranding of the Double Helix of Fear and Retribution (ie skare moving away). That means I'll be pub crawling through Atlantic Ave. with two of my best buddies while the blood-letting occurs. Here we are at the original destranding of the Helix last year.

As we said last time they were cutting staff at Office Depot when we left for lunch while everyone else sat at their desks worried about their jobs, "They can't fire us if they can't find us!!"




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