Late Hit
One of the reasons the Gotham Office failed to produce the regular mutterings yesterday is that we were busy being Laid Off. Our former employers tapped us on the shoulder yesterday and before you could say "reliable solutions that allow our clients to move quickly from concept to value," we were out on our editorial kiester.
Apparently the permanent office in New York is being dismantled, and the programmers who have been asked to stay will mostly be working out of their homes or on the road. We tried to explain that we were perfectly capable of coming up with new e-buzzwords while sitting in a bathrobe on our couch -- offering "profitastic" and "incentivity" as free samples of what the firm was fer chrissake throwing away here -- but our arguments were drowned in a sea of details about COBRA.
Since most of the people who made the job more than just a means to a paycheck were laid off a few months ago, we don't feel much personal regret in leaving. Also it has more and more frequently occured to us of late that We Really Ought to Be Doing Something Worthwhile Instead of This E-Nonsense. In that light, the inevitable was simply hastened. Let the cost-cutting begin.
And if you're a prospective employer...
Posted by B T at September 28, 2001 09:15 AM