the week of hell...

No, I haven’t fell off the face of this earth. I’ve just been super busy and not necessarily with school. It’s been more or less work.

This past week was like hell. For three months now we’ve known our company would be doing layoffs. So the clock has just been ticking to when they would actually happen.

Well imagine this…you wake up one morning and as you are getting dressed you hear about the 200 layoffs to happen at your job. No big deal right? We’ve known this since November. So I look at a national newspaper to read the story. The story is about cutting job specifically in our division.

I really do like my job, but this was the first time I did not want to go to work. So when I got there everybody had heard about it on their way in except my boss. Around 9 a.m. our CEO posted an announcement. It basically summed up the articles stating they are gong to start laying off people now and forward. Meanwhile, our boss is in a regularly scheduled meeting with her boss. Oh, the thoughts going through our minds.

We immediately saw a pink slip being given to her. She was also being told to let us all go. Well, 10 minutes later she comes back to see us chatting in the hallway. She had no idea about the article. No idea about the announcement. She said the meeting lasted 3 minutes because her boss was out today.

I think this past week was like a nightmare for everybody. There were all of these rumors and so many changes going on. Whenever there was a message left for one of us, we'd be too scared to pick it up because it could be about letting us go. I was already prepared not to pick up the phone if I saw on the caller id the "big boss" was calling.

Therefore all of this has prompted us all to do some major drinking this weekend.