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Showing posts with label lay-offs. Show all posts
Showing posts with label lay-offs. Show all posts
Wednesday, March 04, 2026

One potato chip factory...

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I am an absolute sucker for local products that make it big, especially food products. Some of my favorites - but of course! - are from Worc...
Thursday, January 29, 2026

RIP, Circle Furniture

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I was a big fan of Circle Furniture, a small local chain selling interesting, well-designed, decently made, and not crazily expensive furnit...
Tuesday, June 10, 2025

Laid Off

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I've been laid off three times. None of them were classic "here's your pink slip" layoffs, but still... In retrospect, the...
Wednesday, October 23, 2024

Who's that again in the next cubicle?

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I'm all in favor of work from home (WFH), with an ultra-strong preference for a hybrid model - either 3 days in, 2 days WFH, or 2 WFH, 3...
Wednesday, July 17, 2024

Patagonia - one way to force the issue

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If I were asked to imagine the work culture at Patagonia, I'd say it was outdoors-y (duh!), crunchy-granola, do-goody, and young. And ve...
Thursday, July 13, 2023

National Geo news makes me kind of sad

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I grew up in a magazine-subscribing household. At one point or another, we got the following kids' mags: Jack & Jill, Calling All Gi...
Monday, January 23, 2023

And the Worst Execution of a Layoff Award goes to - ta-da - Google

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Having lived (and/or died) through many layoffs during my long career in the notoriously layoff-happy tech sector, I can fully appreciate it...
Thursday, November 17, 2022

Twitter's death spiral? I gotta say it will free up some of my time.

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I'm not a big Tweeter, but I do have a Twitter account and comment pretty regularly. I joined a while back, but didn't actually suit...
Monday, February 07, 2022

Out with the olds?

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I'm not sure if I'd count in any statistics - I probably average only about 5 hours paid work each week - but the thing is that a lo...
Monday, December 13, 2021

Better.com's CEO: giving real fake authenticity a bad name

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Well, I just spent an hour+ writing an overlong post about what a putz Better.com's CEO Vishal Garg is.  And then, puff, just as I was a...
Tuesday, December 08, 2020

Shoes Blues

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Perhaps it's because I Was a Teenage Shoe Factory Worker, but I've always had a warm spot in my heart for those who work in what...
Tuesday, December 01, 2020

Doing business on great waters

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Last week, a commercial t Guard were alerted the something had gone agley, but by the time they got to the site, all that was left of the Em...
Thursday, October 01, 2020

Sad news at Disney

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Maybe it's because I didn't have kids, but I'm not the world's foremost Disney fan.  Of course, when I was a kid things were...
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