Snover wrote:
I now know conclusively what there is a LOT of in the United States: shit and layoffs.
Well, you find the feces wherever you find people, so that's kind of unavoidable. 😉
As for layoffs, we kind of knew this was coming as the IT organizations have been hit hard over the past couple of years. It just finally caught up with us. Since we provided management/storage/what-have-you services for them we knew that we were going to have less business when they got hit.
It didn't help matters when certain people artificially inflated their performance reports in order to look good on the stock market.
While I'm at it, would somebody tell Wall Street to calm down? Bi-Polar issues seem to abound there. You always seem to see them as "enthusiastic" or "depressed". You never see a stock market report come back as "OK". If everyone would stop with the knee-jerk responses, it will work itself out.
Things will get better. I'll probably just have to take whatever I can get until that time.
Let me practice. *ahem* "Thank You. Pull up to the Drive-Thru window please".