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Posts on ‘August 29th, 2002’

cardboard box built for two

The details of this are difficult to relay without blowing the cover of who my employer is, but I'll try.
The topic of our meeting was as I expected: RIF. Those three nasty letters expand to "Reduction In Force" and are well known, lately, by IT professionals, application developers, and those in the telecommunications industry around [...]

attractive

Sometimes I don't feel very attractive.
Like right now.

emergency meeting

An emergency meeting has been called at work for 10:00am this morning. When asked what the meeting is about, my boss replies with, "You'll find out when everyone else does."
Knowing that we have to elimnate another 4300 in equivalent headcount before year-end doesn't make this any easier. Add to that the fact that we've already [...]