Work, work, work.

[icarus]

I've waited a few days to post this.

I'm at a temp assignment that doesn't feel like tempwork because I worked here last year and turned down a job with them to go to school.

On Monday the manager for our department returned from vacation, and was having trouble logging onto the computer. He was called into the supervisor's office. He returned with a shell-shocked face.

He was fired. Effective immediately. There wasn't a dry eye in the department as he stumbled out of there with a box of his stuff.

How utterly humiliating.

Comments

[venivincere]

Hmmmm. Sounds like Black Friday, March 28th, 2003. People in the department kept disappearing one by one that morning, and they never came back.

Then they called my name...

[icarusancalion.livejournal.com]

Egad. I doubt it was any comfort that you had company.

Icarus

[venivincere]

No, not really. I was more concerned with getting to Home Depot before they delivered the new water heater -- I got there just in time to cancel the order and get my money back. I needed it more than a new water heater. Got a good job now, though. Wish it paid more, though.

[dkwilliams.livejournal.com]

I had similar things happen to me the last two company lay-offs. Last one, people kept disappearing and I thought they were taking long lunch hours, till they called me in. While I was in, the guy before me was packing his desk, then while I was packing they called in the third person.

Before that, they pulled everyone in my department into the conference room, told us that 3/4 of us were being laid off, then walked us to our cubicles to get our purses/wallets, and escorted us out. We couldn't even pack our things - they had the group secretary pack them and send them to us - three weeks later, after they'd gone through it all. I lost a picture and a couple personal things that time, and I never took personal things into the office after that.