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Daily Archives: 2016-06-16

Idle Hands Are a Good Thing, Right?

2016-06-16 jer_ 2 Comments

Today the majority of my team and I were let go from work. Laid off. Reduced. RIFed. Whatever the right term for that is. This being the third round of layoffs it isn’t entirely surprising anymore, although the degree of commitment represented by the depth of the cuts does take one back.

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