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Work stuff
So, I am trying to cram some zen into my life today ... I have candles going in my office and ambient music and stuff. This week is layoff week at work - they are letting a bunch of people go and since I'm not in the actual office, all I get is hearsay. It's a horrible environment just waiting for HR to come talk to you and gather up your belongings, so I am feeling really badly for everyone who works there and wondering if I am going to get a call as well
Around 8pm last night I got this horrible feeling of foreboding. Whether I get canned or whether one of my friends does, it's still going to be a horrible week. I know I'd be fine, but those with families and firm roots set down in the GA town where I used to live will be screwed.
SO. I'm not asking for vibes that I don't get laid off because I have enough trust in fate after our last experience with unemployment to know that life will take care of me and point me in the right direction. If I get let go, it's a sign I've done enough of corporate america and now it's time for me to go off elsewhere. But if you could spare any vibes that "what is meant to be will be" I wouldn't turn them down.
Re: Work stuff
This
GL in whatever happens.
This!
I hope things work out for the best for you, whichever that ends up being.
Definitely!!! (now I have that song in my head... it's an oldie)
And if it does happen, it might open a whole new world for you!
Phew! I feel terrible for those 3, but I'm glad it wasn't you!
Agreed!
I feel awful ... even though they were all lazy a$ses and definitely should have been the ones to go, it still it making me cry right now. From someone who has been there on the other side, losing your job is one of the most terrible things to go through. While I'm glad it' s not me, a small part of me wonder if it should have been since I don't have any kids and I live in Chicago with way more opportunities than little old Columbus, Georgia. I think this is called "survivor's guilt."
I feel awful ... even though they were all lazy a$ses and definitely should have been the ones to go, it still it making me cry right now. From someone who has been there on the other side, losing your job is one of the most terrible things to go through. While I'm glad it' s not me, a small part of me wonder if it should have been since I don't have any kids and I live in Chicago with way more opportunities than little old Columbus, Georgia. I think this is called "survivor's guilt."
Thritto!...
This. I'm glad you're able to have such a great attitude about it though. I'm glad you made it through!
Sounds like the were able to separate the chaff from the wheat...
And they knew they had a good thing in you!