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Bluh

So the “day after” at work is almost over.

It’s strange, because the company is physically separated so much, that word of mouth takes a while to spread. I’m still finding out the names of people I know who were laid off, in fact I just heard another one this second. I’m just dreading that I don’t make a major faux pas and ask “where is so-and-so, are they in today?” and just get stared at by my coworkers or something…

On a lighter note, it appears as though my clean install on Win98 on my computer is stable, now I have to go and reinstall a bunch of games, update them, and make sure they work for Saturday. Yay, LAN party.

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D-Day part 2

It appears as though I have survived… for now.

But the carnage is brutal, ongoing, and still completely unknown from my point of view.

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d-day

Well, we all have to be in to work tomorrow at 9am (EARLY) for orientation.

Folks, it’s D-Day at Yahoo!. In 24 hours, 12% of the company will have their severance pay and will be applying for unemployment.

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Friday 13th

So we’ve just now gotten settled into our new digs at work, and they’re gonna make us move again in three weeks upstairs, because of some departmental shuffling.

That is, for those of us that are still here three weeks from now.

I’ve been asked over and over, but I’ll say it again: it won’t be for about another week and a half that we find out exactly which 12% of the company is laid off, which makes for some very tense times. Well, at least the people I’m talking to are handling the anxiety fairly well, but there is some very morbid humor floating around…

I took some pictures of the new campus, just to show off the view… a few months ago, we had a barbeque at Bayshore Park, and I was captivated by the view of the bay / rest of the bay area… well now I have that view every day at work. It’s wonderful. Moving up to the third floor will make me even happier, unless of course they stick us on the other side of the building. 🙁

*sigh* I paid my taxes. I doubt I will ever again pay that much to the government in any one year.

Speaking of paying money, I got my new monitor set up yesterday. Very very nice. Now I need a digital video card that supports the widescreen mode…

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Phases

Well, I’m in a strange transistion period now… I can feel that one phase of my life is ending, and another is beginning.
Strange thing is, this one lasted longer than most of the previous… a full three years, where most of the previous only lasted one and half or two.
With the mood at work changing, all these people leaving, moving to a new complex, and on top of that possibly moving out of my apartment back into a house with housemates, my life is gonna be very different in a few months.

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Slipping… slipping…

So yes, I work for Yahoo!, so yes this is a bad thing (except for that stock buyback thing, that’s good). Not coincidentally, today marks the first day in the entire time I have worked for Yahoo! that I have zero stock options worth any money at all. Yay.
*sniff* I wanna be rich again. Somebody send me back to 1999 and make me sell all my shares. This whole reality thing sucks.

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Another day another dollar

I suppose I should at least write a little about today. It can be summed up in one phrase. “Dammit Jim, I’m an engineer, not a project coordinator!”
*sigh* So I spend all day at work trying to get this project in order, because sometimes it just falls onto the engineer to get everything together, because they’re the last ones who need everything, so if something’s missing, they have to go find it. But only if someone isn’t doing their job. Or in this case, if there isn’t anyone who has that job.
Then I went home and played Phantasy Star Online for the first time with people I actually knew instead of random people from the lobby. And had a blast… I really wanna take some time off and just play PSO all day. Heh heh heh.
And yes, it’s 1:44am and I’m still awake. This does not bode well for waking up tomorrow.