Let's say you walked into work today and found out that your company is going through yet another round of buyouts/forced downsizing -- the third or fourth in five years, you can't remember. This, on top of a daily beatdown of bad news about the industry in which you found your vocation, which is swirling down the drain. And let's say it's a hundred and three fricking degrees outside, and you've just Had. It. Up. To. Here.
You may get the idea that what you need to do is bring home an ice-cold bottle of Champagne -- not the real stuff, but sparkling wine that's cheap, like $13.99, because hey, times be hard. You think maybe that would take the edge off the day's news.
Well, I'm here as your special friend to tell you that NOTHING justifies cheap Champagne. It's too sweet, and it'll put you in a fouler mood, and bring to mind the quote from Trollope that adorns James Poulos's site:
"But the glory has been the glory of pasteboard, and the wealth has been the wealth of tinsel."
You should rather think: "What would Churchill do?" This.
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Third the prosecco.
What's prosecco? Sounds Mexican to me.
I find it really sad that people celebrate the downfall of a profession. Ninety-nine people lost their jobs at my paper a month earlier. About once a week down here in Florida we hear of other papers laying off staff. To me, that's nothing to celebrate.
To be clear, I'm not addressing Rod's post, but rather the anonymous poster who wished us good riddance.
My sympathies to you, Rod and Sherry. My own job was eliminated a couple weeks ago, much to my surprise. I've been in the marketing business for 12 years, newspapers before that. With the auto industry taking such a hit, business has been down for the past few years.
I'm trying to see it as an opportunity to change my lifestyle, work on building a free-lancing business, spend more time with my husband and working around the house and garden.
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