Incredibly sad news coming out of Denver today: The Rocky Mountain News is folding, with February 27, 2009 as its last publishing day. Today was an important day to be on Twitter, following @rmn_newsroom. Followers could read instant updates on the ...Read More
One positive aspect of being laid off is that I was offered this opportunity to work in California for three weeks as a consultant on a Web site. While having dinner and drinks with my boss and a newly-made friend, ...Read More
As I read and hear more stories about layoffs, I started to lose tolerance for when people use "fired" instead of "laid off." I know people who got "fired"—It probably meant something went very wrong somewhere. People who get "laid ...Read More
I found out via Facebook that a friend of mine was laid off from a newspaper job. That sucks. I've been there. I sent her a Facebook message encouraging this person to rant to me if he or she wanted. ...Read More
After two weeks of being unemployed, I [finally? hopefully?] snapped out of my "Wah wah, I don't have a job" funk. I discovered that the most upsetting part of being unemployed was when Sunday evening came. I couldn't shake the ...Read More
