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Novell used to have layoffs every November (to boost Q4 earnings.) One November morning in the early 1990s, I arrive for work and stopped to chat with someone. I'm not sure why I realized there was a layoff going on, perhaps it was the funereal silence and odd phone calls. So, I decided not to go to my office, for about an hour.
My manager finally ordered me to and I got a call from HR asking me to come down there with my manager. Yup, they insisted that HR make the call, not your manager. The best part; while I was having my exit interview, they were "onboarding" new employees in the next offices/cubicles.
There's more weirdness, but it was one of the few times I got a severance package! (The classic, "say you quit and we'll give you six weeks pay" and, by the way, you were due an 8% raise in October, here's a check for extra pay you didn't get.)
That company was such a mess. Though they had really good engineers and their direct managers (just awful middle management and a nice CEO who didn't realize his top people were back stabbers.)
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Company I worked from long ago did layoffs. Then a week latter announced a record quarter.
One of the people they laid off was on vacation, when they were laid off. They had to bring in a contractor to do her job - immediately. It was key position. No one else could do it. The contractor could not do the job, at all. I had to repeatedly walk them through the very well documented process multiple times. About a month later they brought her back on to do the same job - as a contractor. I suspect she ended up getting paid more.
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At a previous job there were some issues around bonusses being paid out. Long story short, after complaints we were called into a meeting. The boss had some envelopes and I immediately had a feeling about what they were. Sure enough, they were retrenchment letters. I ended up leaving and thankfully found a new job.
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Horrible smell around site (7)
"I didn't mention the bats - he'd see them soon enough" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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Horrible
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site SCENE
OBSCENE
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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YAUT  well done I wasn't entirely sure about this one.
"I didn't mention the bats - he'd see them soon enough" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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xkcd: Universal Seat Belt[^] 
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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Surely, that can only be used on a data bus??? 
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
Anonymous
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The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
Winston Churchill, 1944
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Never argue with a fool. Onlookers may not be able to tell the difference.
Mark Twain
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Not without bidirectional bus drivers[^]! Be a little bit more inclusive!
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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That's for water cooled computers.
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On a ship you'd have Universal Seat Belt Sea?
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A lot of people are sad about this but I'm not. By my reckoning he lived a blessed life, lived to an old age, and died peacefully. We should all be so lucky.
I'm not saying he doesn't deserve people to mourn him. I'm sure his family does, and I'm sorry for them, but he was 72 and he died in his sleep. That's not a bad end to a good run. Just my $0.02.
Real programmers use butterflies
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honey the codewitch wrote: We should all be so lucky.
More than true!
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Can we all agree that the death of Ron Popeil is really, really sad, and if you call in the next 30 minutes, we will ship you not one, not two, but three boxes of tissues at a low cost of 5 paiements of $19.99 and money back garanteeeee.
He also lived his life to its fullest.
CI/CD = Continuous Impediment/Continuous Despair
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I saw the news about Ron, too. very sad indeed. most of us here in the States (not sure about Europe) grew up with this guy on our TVs.
"set it, and forget it"
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72 sounds old.. until you are 71.
>64
If you can keep your head while those about you are losing theirs, perhaps you don't understand the situation.
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It sounds young if you are 82
Repo Man
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Yes, it is all relative. I am well past it as well. My wife's aunt passed away last year at 96. She used to talk about living to be 90. When she hit 89, I told her she was going to have to move the target.
>64
If you can keep your head while those about you are losing theirs, perhaps you don't understand the situation.
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Oh sure - he died in his sleep...
What about his passengers?
(In my world it’s never too soon!)
If you can't laugh at yourself - ask me and I will do it for you.
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Damn. 
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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ZZTop used to play at the Warehouse in New Orleans before they got "Big".
One of my biggest regrets is that I never went to see them.
Repo Man
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New Orleans? Did you spell Warehouse correctly?
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