{"id":857,"date":"2004-08-13T13:00:06","date_gmt":"2004-08-13T16:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ericbrooks.com\/whuzzup\/?p=857"},"modified":"2011-06-05T14:39:38","modified_gmt":"2011-06-05T19:39:38","slug":"death-by-lay-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ericbrooks.com\/whuzzup\/death-by-lay-off\/","title":{"rendered":"Death by Lay off"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Aaarrrgghhh!<\/p>\n<p>Kill me now. Please.<\/p>\n<p>Sorry to have been so quiet lately. But after the announcement that our teams layoffs will be announced September 17 (which is virtually guaranteed to wipe us out), the site where we are located decided to move us to another floor!<\/p>\n<p>They moved our phones upstairs like this was going to happen tomorrow! We all began cleaning out our offices and dumping stuff. I have literally spent the last 3 days pulling staples out of expired paperwork so it could be dumped in the recycle bin! 3 days!<\/p>\n<p>I was finally able to catch up today. 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