re: #171 GunstarGreen

Greetings from the unemployment line, my fellow lizards.

Had a meeting this afternoon with my boss and me as the only invitee, which is always either a really good or really bad thing. After five years of really good things, I was due up for some bad news. I’m told it was purely budgetary, as the result of “across the board budget slashing”, that it is in no way related to performance and that they will gladly give me a positive reference.

Funny though, how they managed to hold on to the new guy that’s been there six months and is working off an H1B visa. I don’t blame him though, he’s a great guy and I wish him all the best — I just blame the corporate scum that ran the cold calculus of ‘cut the guy that commands a higher wage’.

Ah well. Such is life when doing contract work in a right-to-get-fucked-at-any-time state. #ThanksObama, I guess. //

OMG WTF.

Where are you? I get like half a dozen calls every day from recruiters, not just for jobs in Detroit.