> Thanks for all your help. I gotta stop thinking about it. It's like > running as a group through a mine field and making it through as the > only one. And I have no clue why they kept me.... Having personally survived 5 rounds of layoffs at a popular dot-com several years back, resulting in taking the company from 250 people to 30 in less than 18 months, I can sympathize with your confusion and startled looks. I saw people coming into work with that deer-in-the-headlights look, not knowing if they were going to be walking out with a pink slip by lunchtime. That's no way to go INTO work in the morning, its rough. I saw managers working 4-5 hours a day, 4 days a week, making 2-3x more than we were, and we were putting in 10-15 hours a day, just to keep things moving forward. In my case, the rounds of layoffs resulted in the liquidated my entire department (Research), including my boss, leaving only one employee left in the group... me. I was migrated to the other lacking departments one after another in an effort to help them make up the lost workload they were suffering from, until I finally had enough of feeling like I was saving everyone else's butts and I resigned myself. David A. Desrosiers desrod at gnu-designs.com http://gnu-designs.com
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