Even though the sun is shining and it’s springtime and things are generally good in my life, I’m having a grumbly sort of day today. I think it’s just some emotional debris left behind by the layoff.

Back in February, when I saw the layoff on the horizon as a real but indefinite possibility, I imagined [...]

I spent yesterday – my first official day of unemployment – at the office. I collected all my personal stuff on the weekend, but I didn’t like the idea of just walking away from my job without tidying up my files and leaving some basic information behind like the password for the server and the [...]

For the past 18 years I’ve worked at a non-profit organization.

In January, our new President reluctantly issued layoff notices to the entire staff, effective March 28, but said some or all of the layoff notices might be rescinded if she could find alternative sources of funding. We were asked not to tell anyone in the [...]