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[trinityofone]

Myself and more than twenty others were laid off from my company yesterday with no warning. We were called into meetings in groups of about five at a time, chatted up by the human resources ladies, and then abruptly let go. We were then escorted from the building.

This is a handout that was in our "bye bye!" packets. Don't you just love that exclamation mark? So cheery!

I'm still sort of numb and in shock. I can't believe I didn't get up and go to work today. I hate the idea that I have to start the long, annoying process of looking for work again. I actually liked my job. I was good at my job. But with the economy the way it is, my (former) company was forced to eliminate my job.

Thank you, George W. Bush, for this unique opportunity to be unemployed.

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[frogspace.livejournal.com]

Just when you think you've seen it all...

Handing out pamphlets is even more tactless than what happened to a friend of mine. There was an unexpected town hall meeting at her company for half the staff and the HR person brought in two boxes with rubber duckies. He told them they were these rubber duckies. And as rubber duckies they were swimming in the sea but suddenly a shark came and ate half of them. In the first box were the duckies that got away and in the second box were the duckies that got eaten by the shark. He was sad to inform them that they (everyone in the meeting) were in the second box.

*hugs*

[trinityofone.livejournal.com]

Oh my god, that's one of the worst things I've ever heard. That guy should be taken out and shot. Seriously.

[icarusancalion.livejournal.com]

That's gloriously bizarre. I take it then that the HR department is the shark in this picture?