Dangerman's mumblings

first if getting laid off isn't bad enough, then my laptop hard drive crashed, and I lost at least a years worth of my yahoo accounts email. Still no sure job offers. I interviewed with SOS temp yesterday and a job - mozy.com - through SOS technical, that would be on a contractual basis. I was told that I should find out about that one by late afternoon on Friday.

I went on some errands and during that time I stopped at the post office and while there asked if they were hiring, mentioned that I had been laid off. The woman mentioned that she had read about TNI laying off 85 people in the news paper. So for those who have not seen that article - here it is- Heraldextra article I think that it is rather enlightening, myself, for a public release. and then the SLC Tribune had some similar ones: SLC_Trib1

just in case any one wanted to know, getting laid off is not fun to do. Wednesday, the 1st of October, the first phone call I received on my cell phone was from my manager. He asked me to come back to the legal counsel's office. Just before that, my co-worker was bring me up to spead on what had been rumored or discussed the day before about lay-offs. She figured that if anyone in our helpdesk would get let go, she probably would since was low person on the totem pole. Well, I guess I should have been listening to myself, because I just got through saying something like it doesn't matter, it could be any of us. I walked back to the legal counsels office, and there was my manager standing behind the head legal counsels desk with a pink/burgundy folder with my name on it. It was explained to me that contained in the folder was a check for my pay up till 5 pm that day and the rest of my vacation days. I would be given time to back up my data if I wished, since I knew how to do tha