'Bred Crumbs
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12.12.01
05:57 PM
The modern greeting to your corporate co-worker: "You still here?"
My company laid off 10 percent of its employees today.* No, not me. Gratefulness mixed with sadness mixed with a little anger. I understand to a point that times are tough and sometimes hard calls have to be made so that a company can survive, but you always wonder whether the question is survival or short-term profits. And whatever the question, the fact is that at some point someone decided that the best answer to the given situation was to deprive a lot of people of their jobs two weeks before Christmas. It's hard to fathom.
* Well, that answers the question of how they're going to fit us all into one less building.
My company laid off 10 percent of its employees today.* No, not me. Gratefulness mixed with sadness mixed with a little anger. I understand to a point that times are tough and sometimes hard calls have to be made so that a company can survive, but you always wonder whether the question is survival or short-term profits. And whatever the question, the fact is that at some point someone decided that the best answer to the given situation was to deprive a lot of people of their jobs two weeks before Christmas. It's hard to fathom.
* Well, that answers the question of how they're going to fit us all into one less building.
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Pictured: Rubble from the destruction of the Central Freeway, San Francisco, April 2003. Photos by the author.
Pictured: Views from San Francisco Bay, July 2003. Photos by the author.
Pictured: Videogames projected onto a wall from an Atari 2600, July 2003. Photos by the author.
Pictured: Ranch near Hollister, New Year's Day 2003. Photos by the author.
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