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IN WHICH I partially figure out how some things worked.
My buddy Chuck was told that his hall monitor services were “no longer needed” because he’d been lax in handing out yellow slips to malefactors. His sudden replacement by Callahan made me wary, so I skulked past him, but he nailed me anyway.
Getting laid off is often the best solution to a bad work environment. Sometimes you can even engineer it yourself.
Getting laid off isn’t so bad. Sometimes it’s even necessary.
In my thirty-year career in high tech, I was lucky. I never got fired. I was, however, laid off. Six times.
Three of the times I engineered myself.
Why would anyone want to lay themselves off? Continue reading “How to Lay Yourself Off”
