"Exhilarating, isn't it?"
Dec. 12th, 2007 10:56 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rickvsSo, I got laid off this afternoon.
"Financial reasons", I was assured -- they couldn't afford for me to work there unless I took a fifty percent pay cut, and maybe not then. They intend to dump my chores, and the chores of the other artist they let go today, onto the trembling shoulders of their salaried production manager ...who already has plenty on his plate. I expect his head to explode any day now.
I'm embracing the concept that this layoff is good news, perhaps better news than getting fired outright from my previous job turned out to be. My recent employers are on a path I'm pretty sure will prove drastically, double-plus unprofitable for them, and I hope to arrange a better work schedule for myself, preferably with lots of tasks I can complete from home.
In the meanwhile we have enough financial safety nets available that I'm not concerned about eviction nor starvation, and after that what is there to worry about? I look forward to the extra cuddle time my new schedule will afford me, and if any of you lot know anyone who needs some artwork done, I'd love to hear about it.
I told my ex-managers on my way out that I felt sorrier for them than for myself. I'm confident that I'll find a job, and pretty quickly at that ...while on the flip side, I honestly have no concept of how they hope to succeed on the road ahead of them.
"Financial reasons", I was assured -- they couldn't afford for me to work there unless I took a fifty percent pay cut, and maybe not then. They intend to dump my chores, and the chores of the other artist they let go today, onto the trembling shoulders of their salaried production manager ...who already has plenty on his plate. I expect his head to explode any day now.
I'm embracing the concept that this layoff is good news, perhaps better news than getting fired outright from my previous job turned out to be. My recent employers are on a path I'm pretty sure will prove drastically, double-plus unprofitable for them, and I hope to arrange a better work schedule for myself, preferably with lots of tasks I can complete from home.
In the meanwhile we have enough financial safety nets available that I'm not concerned about eviction nor starvation, and after that what is there to worry about? I look forward to the extra cuddle time my new schedule will afford me, and if any of you lot know anyone who needs some artwork done, I'd love to hear about it.
I told my ex-managers on my way out that I felt sorrier for them than for myself. I'm confident that I'll find a job, and pretty quickly at that ...while on the flip side, I honestly have no concept of how they hope to succeed on the road ahead of them.
