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Laid Off Journal
Journal entries of the details of being laid off, or canned if you will.
Taking a Vacation After Getting Fired
Modern life often has us on a treadmill that can make enjoying life a challenge. Our time typically falls into two categories throughout our careers. Gross oversimplification, but I’m talking about time employed and time unemployed. But there is a third category that arises once every few years for many people. TIME WHILE EMPLOYED “Time employed” is the default … Read more
Breaking Job Interview Rules and Still Getting Hired.
Well, one of the ideas of this blog has been validated. Getting canned can often result in putting you in a better situation in the long run. It took less than three weeks from my termination date, but I’ve now got a contract with a new employer that on first appearances seems to be … Read more
The First Week of Being Unemployed.
So the chronology here is as follows. About four years of working in “big corpa” as an analyst for a large dinosaur retailer as of April 2018 and my first official day of being unemployed was this week. There’s a definite adjustment just as the caveman from Plato’s cave had to let his eyes … Read more
“And then they switched from the Swingline to the Boston stapler”
After close to four years at my corporate cubicle hell open workspace hell, I reached the end of my PIP. The hammer dropped. I was gracefully dismissed and was escorted to the exit. It’s ok…I honestly should have quit two years ago when they switched from the Swingline to the Boston Stapler. Would you … Read more