I’ve got the world on a string, sittin’ on a rainbow!
To review:
And…
Don’t get me wrong, I enjoy jury duty. But today, I just want to go to work and concentrate on the fact that I still have a job, rather than sit in the courthouse remembering the looks on the faces of my coworkers as they were called into their managers’ offices. I hope I never experience another day like yesterday.
The way life is going, I bet Barack Obama will tell the world today that I’ve won his veepstakes and will be his running mate.
In any case, I have to put the days of depression eating and the day of celebration eating behind me and stop eating like a college student. (Cake for lunch? Oh, what the hell…) I have about 20 “Lil’ Green Patch” plants to accept in Facebook tonight and the Democratic National convention to get ready for next week. Barry, call me! 
RIP, LeRoi…thank you for the years and years of music and memories
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We survived!
Layoffs started at the opening of business this morning. I’m okay, Coworker S is okay, Boss is okay. But I saw a lot of really great people go, and that was heartbreaking.
By the power of Suze, I swear I’m going to work hard to beef up my savings to get at least 6 months’ worth of expenses in there. Because I think this is only the beginning of things.
I’m so sleepy. I haven’t slept well since the memo came out last Thursday.
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A downsizing riddle
What’s the worst thing about getting a “we’re laying off people early next week” memo on Thursday and going to work that next Monday?
The weekend of torture and second-guessing in between.
The best case scenario: me, Coworker S., Boss, and the people I like at work all keep our jobs and all of the dead wood gets tossed. Everything else is a downward spiral of suckiness.
(Stomach hurts…head hurts…etc.)
Edited 11:37pm Nothing happened today. Probably tomorrow. Hopefully before Wednesday because I have jury duty that day and I’ll go insane wondering if they’re trying to find me to lay me off.
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Judgmental Chicken of DOOM
WM and I like to peruse garage sales Saturday mornings. We mostly look for old books, old Disney stuff, and chickens.
WM’s mother collects chickens. Rather, she hates chickens and because of that he buys her the ugliest ones he can find. They are all over her house. On one of our jaunts, we found the above beauty, and he snatched it up for $3.00. It was meant to be sent off to Michigan.
It’s been 2 months now, and it’s still sitting on top of our printer, pointed toward whoever deserves to be stared at by a Judgmental Chicken of DOOM. (Right now, it’s WM. Don’t ask.) With each passing day, the hope that JCoD will soon leave my humble abode fades even more.
And still…it just stares…judgmentally.
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So remember when I swore off reading that blog that does nothing but scare me about layoffs? It was right. Gannett’s laying off 600 employees companywide. And the Courier-Post will be laying off 35 of its workforce early next week. We got the memo today, and now we wait until next week to see who’ll be shown the door. Will it be me? Conventional wisdom says no, because online is growing and online employees are valuable. But in the grand scheme of things, we’re no more valuable than anyone else there. The C-P has been a part of how I identify myself for so long now - I’d miss it.
Obviously, I could go on for pages about this. Won’t do any good.
Ironically, this morning I added headlines from my C-P World of Warcraft blog to my sidebar.
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