Fire Another Day
While I’d been handling the layoff situation pretty well until this point, today was not quite the same. I guess I am past the denial stage. Today I started cleaning out some files in prep for Tuesday’s d-day – they pushed it back again. (Yes, I still have a plan in place and I will be fine,) but today it hit me how many hours I’ve spent at Elektra - working incredibly hard. As I literally threw out millions of dollars worth of [now obsolete] documentation, I couldn’t help but get upset at how I feel that I am being tossed aside. Damnit, where’s the reward for all my hard work? Most people would have quit before they finished that damn Ross Project - in fact, many did! I had an hour-long interview to determine my fate of my future and career? I guess I am lucky - many employees didn’t even get that. I also do not understand how Lyor went on vacation while we have to sweat it through another weekend. Come on, let’s get it over with already.
Camille took us to lunch today. She said some very kind words about us. Jesse also said something very nice about me. We are indeed family. Each has really touched my life both personally and professionally. Thank you.
Robin, I am sorry about your apartment. That really sucks. I can relate though. When we first moved into our apartment, the radiator blew up one morning at around 3 or 4 am. The whole apartment was covered by hot, thick fog. I was really afraid it was going to ruin my guitars and everything else in the apartment, but there wasn’t anything we could do. We tried to open the windows but it was the middle of the winter so that wasn’t such a great plan. It was so loud that it woke the downstairs neighbor and he came up to check on us. Did I mention that I had a final the next day?
