Thursday morning, 19 January 2023.
Yesterday was a scary day at work. My employer, a pretty good tech company, announced layoffs. That is never fun, and a lot of folks were on edge around the virtual workspace, and later in the day, I did discover a couple of my coworkers that I call friends were laid off. It sucks, but the landing won’t be as bad as you might think. Folks were given a 60-day notice, so responsibilities were shifted away from those that will be back out looking, and resources for finding “what’s next” were being allocated as well.
It still causes folks anxiety. It always does. I’ve been on the receiving end of news like that… and it wasn’t just me at the time, it was everybody in the company – a training company I worked for shut their doors forever – and there sure as heck wasn’t a 60-day notice – I don’t think I received my last paycheck at all.
I am in a better place today than I was in December of 2002, that is for sure.
I’m back in my virtual classroom here in another couple of hours, today talking about Platform as a Service, focusing on web & mobile application support, Docker containers, and Kubernetes orchestration. A lot of information to cover in two hours, and I try to get through it with a little room to spare for questions at the end.
I think that’s going to do it for me this morning. I’ve got a few things to look over before my discussion with learners, so getting this in the can will give me a moment or four to organize my thoughts.
I hope the world is treating you better than you deserve.
Peace y’all.
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Until KDOT, I never kept a job for more than a couple of years. Now I have been with the state of KS for over 20 cycles around Sol. I am sure you remember one of our first classes together, “STOP TYPING SO LOUD!” yelled at me by one of the other students who was not as good at multitasking… I am glad C was there to catch you out of the fall from F, or we would have never met, and I would be not as good a person for it… Thanks man, for everything you have helped me with over the decades…
Glad to see you were passed over by the Angel of Death.