oh Tom! I am so sorry. 6 months is good though, and yes, take some walk around picture days, and double yes, get on with a few recruiters. You want I should ask my friends in IT who they use?

If you feel like a change of scenery, you know where there is a guest bed for you.

Consuela, it really sounds that by staying there you are setting yourself for a miserable day to day situation.

Oh Tom, I am so sorry.

ita ! too.

Oh, yuck, Tom. They let go of a very good person.

I survived my call and the project manager is very happy with what I have pulled together for her. Once we have this new process up and running, she wants to show it off to others - bringing me more work. Woot? I'm just ready for a nap, then I can jump back into the next steps for this.

ita, I am so sorry for your loss.

tom, I am sorry about the layoff. I know you weren't happy there, so my hope is that this turns out to be the push to a better job that is more fulfilling with more compatible colleagues.

2 consecutive days of full day groupthink meetings means that this introvert is at her desk, eating tylenol.

HA! It is YOU, my friend, who are the aesthetic-lacking philistine!

Am not! [link] [link] [link] [link] [link]

Tom, I'm so sorry! I hope that this leads to something awesome and better and just what you need, but I really wish it hadn't happened this way.

ita, I'm so sorry for your loss.

Tom, that sucks. I'm sorry you couldn't leave on your own terms, with a new prospect waiting for you. I'm glad the severance is decent, though. Tiny silver lining.

Oh shit, Tom, I'm so sorry that your former office is full of fuckwits who don't know a good thing when it's been toiling away for them for 12 years. Here's hoping that several years from now, you'll find yourself saying, "That was the best thing that ever happened to me."

Plei, I think I require more...ah...evidence.