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By Nate on Friday, July 12, 2002 - 09:56 am:

    not my end, but an end.
    so, tacked up all around the office are signs advertising:

    Engineering BBQ.
    Friday, July 12, noon.
    Everyone's invited.
    [picture of sponge bob square pants waving].

    that's today, my friends. something that has been planned for a few weeks, maybe a month.

    what else is today? something who's rumor started circulating last friday. the ubiquitous cut. layoffs. irony.

    do i want to go to work? fucking hell no. i find myself particularlly sensitive to psychic haywire. walking into the office this morning will be like walking into a septic tank fog. heavy. tangible. distress.

    but i have some important things to do in the office this morning, so i'm going in.

    so i wonder, how will it go? will they inform the unlucky after the BBQ? everyone standing around looking grim, wondering if they're going to be back on monday?

    or will it be before the BBQ? everyone let go leaving the office with knowledge of a timeframe when a big chunk of the company will be gathered in the parking lot. primed for the driveby.

    i had a thought that they could do it during the BBQ. the CEO makes an announcement while everyone is standing in small, glum circles: "ok everyone! take a look at the bottom of your cup! if you find a gold star, we'll see you monday! everyone else, good luck!"

    i really don't want to go in today.


By Fester on Friday, July 12, 2002 - 11:49 am:

    maybe they are planning to BBQ the employees. whoever doesn't get cooked and eaten gets to return to work


By spunky on Friday, July 12, 2002 - 12:02 pm:

    I will never forget the lay off day at Birch.
    Damn. A guy, escorted by 2 armed body gaurds walked around the building, leaving letters on some people's desks ORDERING them to walk, not drive, to the Union Station Meeting Room (they even gave specific path they were to take) at 11:00. At 10:00 am, I was handed a list of accounts that were to be disabled immediately. Oh, and pull the internet plug, please.
    Some of the people had not gotten thier letters yet. I could not even tell the help desk what was going on, as they were being flooded with a million calls about not being able to unlock their work stations, get email, etc.
    That went on until 11, when a large mass of people got out of their desks and started walking out the door down to Union Station.
    The remaining peole were told to "lock everything down and go home, NOW. We will stay closed until Monday."


By Spider on Friday, July 12, 2002 - 12:50 pm:

    Tell us how it went, Nate.


By semillama on Friday, July 12, 2002 - 05:36 pm:

    yeah. Was it good BBQ?


By Nate on Saturday, July 13, 2002 - 01:41 am:

    good BBQ. they layoffs are on monday. they're going to let everyone mull through another weekend.

    bastards.


By Hal on Saturday, July 13, 2002 - 06:06 am:

    God damned people.....


    Fucking christ.


By Czarina on Sunday, July 14, 2002 - 02:08 am:

    That sucks.

    "Enjoy your weekend,some of you won't be returning on Monday."

    I hope they're more tactful than the last hosptital I worked at. The old,debilitated security guard was a notarious gossip,so if you wanted to find out the latest dirt,you'd check with him.

    Two of the people who were being layed off,found out from him. He didn't know them by name,so he just blurted out their names. What a horrid shock!

    He was fired,and later reinstated. Good old Dudley.

    Hope you're not in line.


By Nate on Monday, July 15, 2002 - 10:39 am:

    i'm not in line. by what was diect deposited into my checking account today i got a real solid raise.

    how's that for guilt?


By semillama on Monday, July 15, 2002 - 02:33 pm:

    Pretty good.


By spunky on Tuesday, July 16, 2002 - 10:22 am:

    I tried to start a new thread, but I keep getting a form>a error, so I will just say it here...

    Funny how just after this article appears (gist of it: Arabs Decry [rightfully so] the hypocracy of global war on terrorism when Isreal's terrorist acts against Palestine are ignored,
    then this happens. Especially after it has been comparitivly quiet for the last 3 weeks after Isreal's re-occupation of the Gaza Strip and the West Bank.

    My opinion?
    Isreal was staging these "Palestinian Attacks" to justify them exterminating or driving out all Palestinians from the meager land they are "allowed" to occupy. When Isreal invaded that land, I think Isreal stopped the staged terror attacks (I am sure Palestinians do launch some attacks, but not all of them) to demonstrate that their actions worked. When the Arab League said something about the imbalance, then the attacks started again....


    I have been trying to keep my mouth shut about such thinks, but my hypocracy has boundries......


By semillama on Tuesday, July 16, 2002 - 12:17 pm:

    Nice speculation there spunky.

    of course, none of this changes my opinion on
    the whole mideast conflict, which is that the
    US needs to stop the unilateral support of
    Israel when abuses of human rights are
    carried out, just as we should with any other
    country. I'm not saying that we should stop all
    support, but it would really help US if we didn't
    come off as Israel's puppet to the Arab world,
    don't you think?


By patrick on Tuesday, July 16, 2002 - 12:48 pm:

    Hey Spunky you should read Amnesty's recent report on Palestinian human rights abuses and the subsequent condemnation.


By spunky on Tuesday, July 16, 2002 - 05:02 pm:

    man, whatever side i take, the two of you take the other....

    DAMN.


By patrick on Tuesday, July 16, 2002 - 05:27 pm:

    i havent taken any side, i just encourage to you read the report.

    its such a complicated issue.


By spunky on Tuesday, July 16, 2002 - 05:30 pm:

    everything is. no black and white.
    all is grey


By JusMiceElf on Tuesday, July 16, 2002 - 05:46 pm:

    My sister just got home from three weeks in Palestine as part of the International Solidarity Movement. She sent back some eye opening reports from there. Once I look through them again, I'll post a couple of excerpts for y'all to peruse.


By patrick on Tuesday, July 16, 2002 - 06:10 pm:

    My opinion?

    Hamas staged these attacks (on civilians as they have declared they will do... human rights violation to the n'th degree) to provoke an Israeli response as the the "big four" have their meetings in NYC about the middle east. Kofi Annan of the UN, Javier Solana of the EU, Igor whatshisface from Russia and Colin Powell.

    Im starting to think it is indeed time for Arafat to go because he can't (or refuses) to reign in groups like Hamas who aggrivate the situation. I can't ever think of a situation in which targeting civilians is ever justified. Hamas says it is.


By semillama on Tuesday, July 16, 2002 - 08:01 pm:

    I also wasn't disagreeing with you spunky. I
    was sincere when I said it was nice
    speculation.
    Maybe there really is no solution to this one.


By Czarina on Thursday, July 18, 2002 - 12:46 am:

    That is correct. There is no solution to this one.

    We created Israel. It was our little project, and now its run terribly amuck.

    We're just sitting here,with crow all over our faces, wondering if there is a graceful way out.


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