Just learned of the resignation of a colleague, “effectively immediately”. I was not real close to him, but I had worked with him occasionally on several projects. AFAIK, he was generally liked and respected, and the work he was involved in, e.g., security and disaster recovery, is fundamental to our business. So my first thought on reading the announcement was:
WTF???
My second was:
That is one more vacancy between us and layoffs!
I think I am in a good position at work, even in the current economic crisis, but I cannot help remembering this.
From Modern Art Obsession via Monastic Musings.
A restaurant in China, anticipating the Olympic influx of Anglophone visitors, ran its name through a computer translator and put up a large sign with the results:
As mia_mcdavid wrote, we are OK.
The bus I take to work had not been using the 35W Bridge across the Mississippi, so I was able to ride it to work downtown as I have been doing. It was slower than it had been: There was a lot more traffic on Central Avenue and the 3rd Ave. bridge than before, as you might expect with one of the other major bridges gone. Looking out the bus window I could see the cars were bumper-to-bumper. I could only see one with more than a single occupant. Sigh….
A few yards away from my cubicle here I can look out the window and see the broken bridge in the distance.
From Hilbert Space to Dilbert Space, and beyond 