Day 3 continued in the same vein — get up, get kid to school, and go to work getting work.
The night before I was considering how to jumpstart my Photoshop and Lightroom teaching opportunities. I was a bit rueful that I had lost my Acrobat Connect Pro account with my Adobe job; it has a […]
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Day 3: “Individual Contributor”
by Mike Jennings in November 13th, 2009
Topics: blather, douchebaggery, geekspeak
Tags: acrobat connect, layoff, lynda.com, RIF, sack, total training
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Day 2: Losing My Religion
by Mike Jennings in November 12th, 2009
Managed not to waste the day again today. Got up before 8, got the kid to school, did NOT go back to bed. Managed a whole bunch of relevant stuff to future livelihoods.
Idiot plumber flaked out again today. My brother did not flake out, came over and spent a few hours first with my son […]
Topics: blather, pretentiousness, tedium
Tags: hulu, identity, laid off, layoff, RIF, RIFfed, sacked, walking papers
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Sacked
by Mike Jennings in November 11th, 2009
Shortly after my ten-year anniversary with Adobe Systems I got booted in a RIF that wiped out some 680 employees. As I posted on my Facebook profile:
I was supposed to get laid off in LAST December’s Adobe bloodbath, but my director cadged a stay of execution that bought me another year. During which I developed […]
Topics: blather, tedium
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