Coincidence? You Be The Judge

For those of you as yet unaware of the situation, I have recently joined the ranks of the unemployed.

Along with the job, of course, goes the house we were gearing up to close on. Hard to pay a mortgage without an income.
I – and many others – have noted that it’s a very big ‘coincidence’ [...]

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Relief, and sorrow

I am still employed.
Not entirely sure why, at this point; let’s look at the reasons I had to be hopeful.
The 2008 numbers are up The person who crunched the numbers is gone.
My manager wasn’t called upon to axe people My manager is also gone.
But the axe is now done swinging, and it bit deep throughout our department. [...]

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It’s official.

Just got a very welcome email, which began as follows:
Oliver, Congratulations and welcome to the Xerox family. I am pleased to confirm your start date of Tuesday, September 02, 2008.
So yeah, w00t, I can has job, and any other overused meme-age you care to put here.

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