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November 19, 2003
Company X Blows Fat Monkeys
(Category: True Stories )

The news is in and it's not of the happy variety. Our Everyday Stranger has been cut in a round of layoffs by Company X. Go visit Helen and leave some love.

Makes me glad that I don't have a phone from a certain large Swedish telecomunications company.

Posted by Jim | Permalink
Comments

I thought they were Finnish?

Posted by: Rob at November 19, 2003 07:37 AM

oh ... the other one ... doh!
*hangs head and goes and sits in the corner for "special" bloggers*

Posted by: Rob at November 19, 2003 07:40 AM

I just had a visit to my site from someone at Company X and realizing that it was probably Helen cleaning out her desk, that I'd never see that domain name in the logs again, made me bawl like a baby.

Do you suppose there is something we could do for her?

Posted by: ilyka at November 19, 2003 07:42 AM

They'll be Finnish soon if they keep running things the way they are now. I swear this was the most unholy layoff scheme I've ever seen used by a company. Talk about morale destruction. Even Kodak handled things better and they're notorious for how badly they handle layoffs.

I don't know that there's much we can do at the moment. Try to get her to smile if you can. I'm working on something right now (Luuk related) that I was hoping to have already finished but can't seem to get the time to get done, dammit.

Posted by: Jim at November 19, 2003 07:47 AM

It was Helen stopping by, and loving you guys for noting down the correct Company X and for giving me support.

I am still using the corporate dial-in for the next week, and will until I get my own internet stuff set up at home. I am going in late tonight to clean out my desk-I can't handle doing it with anyone around.

In the meantime, I am searching on line like mad for jobs, and am a flood of tears. I am sorry to be such a downer, but that's the way it is.

Gotta' go. Tears again.

Posted by: Helen at November 19, 2003 08:20 AM

The boycott has begun. Jim, you got it 100% right - I've never seen such a poorly handled layoff, and I've been through 3 rounds.

I will make sure everytime I see a Hong Konger with said Viking company's phone, I will explain why they must immediately change it.

Posted by: Simon at November 19, 2003 08:59 PM

So, it's something called Viking and not Nextel?
Good.
I guess I don't have to smash my cell phone then, do I?

I was gonna....

Posted by: Stevie at November 20, 2003 05:38 PM

Nay. Neither Viking nor Nextel. He meant "Viking company" as in company from where the Vikings lived.

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