Jim Davis wrote:
>
> TEMPORARY BLUES
>
> By John Slaughter
>
> I have been downsized, effective Labor Day, 1997.
>
> Being downsized is actually a pretty accurate description of how
> it feels, too. My stature as a human being has definitely been
> diminished. I am a throwaway, a discard at 58, no longer deemed
> productive. Not to be outdone, though, I decided to make a career
> change out of it. I couldn't afford to retire, so I got a student
> loan, which I will be paying off for the next 10 years, and got
> myself retrained. I bought all their hype about all the great jobs
> that would be waiting for me when I graduated.
[snip]
Maybe you should spell your surname: Slaughtered?
I found this posting personally affecting (I got downsized at age
49, and it "only" took me 6 months to start to get out of a
hole I fear I could quickly -- this day? -- fall back into...).
Mr. Slaughter's case, I hypothesize, is another example
of how our society must have such a surfeit of high quality,
high performing contributors (I won't call them "workers")
that it can afford to throw them away.
Well, even if that
was the case (which I definitely do not think
it is! And I've never yet hear of any person or
organization destroying assets except for strategic
reasons -- like insurance fraud...), I believe one
Pharoah was convinced to put aside reserves during 7 fat
years for 7 lean years to come.
"The Sorrow and The Pity"
\brad mccormick
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