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Stardate: 20200923.0001 | |
Location: Game Room/Former COVID-10 office | |
Input Device: fuchikoma (RPi4) | |
Audio: Fan | |
Visual: Game Room clutter | |
Emotional State: Tired, at peace. | |
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As some of you may have heard, I was laid off from my job of 17 | |
years this past Wednesday. It was very heartless and impersonal. It | |
was a business decision and I was transacted. It was done over WebEx | |
and my immediate supervisor was not on the call. No chance for any | |
closure with my team or colleagues. My account logins were already | |
disabled. It totally sucked and it still hurts. | |
This was my first job after being laid off from my dot-com job after | |
9/11. Back then, I had worked at that job almost 4 years, which was | |
a long time for dot-com, and America just got attacked. That was | |
September, 2001. It sucked, but I came out ok. | |
Fast-forward to September, 2020. Global pandemic. I get laid off. | |
I start to see a pattern which is probably just happenstance. It still | |
sucked but I think we will be ok. It was a good 17 year run. | |
I am grieving this loss and trying to process all of this. I know it | |
will take time. It is overwhelming at times and like all feelings, | |
they are temporary. I try not to go down the road of future tripping, | |
because I know where that road goes. It is best to just take things | |
day by day and try not to spend too much time in my head. | |
2020 has been the suck in so many different ways for everybody. We | |
all feel it and it is not fun. Do what you can to try to take care | |
of yourself and your loved ones. Please feel free to reach out to | |
me if you need to chat. | |
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