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never joke...

We were sitting at lunch when J got an SMS from his girlfriend, who works at another one of our divisions, saying she was being called into a mandatory meeting on her day off.

"i'm not getting in any van" she said. (a joking reference to past layoffs in our dept, where all employees were bussed to another location and told they were out of work...)

we laughed. they couldnt possibly be shutting down that place.

i got back from class to find out we were wrong. J's girlfriend who sent the SMS will be out of work at the end of Spring quarter... she's already a mess from her prior stress levels. Apparently the two full-time salary guys are going to be shuffled into other positions.

J and his girlfriend are leaving in 2 weeks for 2 weeks in Japan. At least the trip is paid for.

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Ugh, what terrible timing. Well, at least the trip is already paid for, right?

"We find it's always better to fire people on a Friday. Studies have statistically shown that there's less chance of an incident if you do it at the end of the week." ("Office Space")

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