Posted November 17th, 2008 by Kimberly Dowd
My nine year anniversary at the newspaper was yesterday. I begin work at 9am. Most of the rest of the non-news folks start at 8:30am. I’m not even sure why I’m a 9:00 start, but I cherish the extra sleep. Take a look at the map below, which compares where I had to park at [...]
Tags: layoffs, newspapers
Posted August 21st, 2008 by Kimberly Dowd
OK..you caught me…it’s really Thursday. The Friday Five site publishes their questions early, so I figured I’d sleep in 10 more minutes tomorrow morning and do it tonight. Cheers! Oh, this Friday Five was tailor-made for me! It’s called: Stupidity 1. What’s something really, really stupid you’ve done that could easily have resulted in your [...]
Tags: friday five, layoffs, web design
Posted August 19th, 2008 by Kimberly Dowd
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’ [...]
Tags: I work for a living, layoffs, survivor guilt
Posted August 14th, 2008 by Kimberly Dowd
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 [...]
Tags: layoffs, worldofwarcraft