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alloy-digest Wednesday, June 27 2001 Volume 06 : Number 164
Today's Subjects:
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Alloy: Bruce Willy and the Camera Club ["Tim Hudson" <tim_hudson@zdneton]
Alloy: happy birthdays ["Robin Thurlow" <rfhthurlow@earthlink.net>]
Alloy: OT: the economy 3, Meyer household 1 ["Beth Meyer" <bethmeyer@mind]
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Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2001 08:53:46 +0000
From: "Tim Hudson" <tim_hudson@zdnetonebox.com>
Subject: Alloy: Bruce Willy and the Camera Club
In that case:
From now on I will call him Bruce 'Willy' and the Camera club.
Hah !
Tim.
"One measured exposure" - name the TMDR song........
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Tim Hudson
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Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2001 23:55:54 -0400
From: "Robin Thurlow" <rfhthurlow@earthlink.net>
Subject: Alloy: happy birthdays
My internet connection is being a little crazy this evening so I'm sending
this a tiny bit early (in anticipation of the stroke of midnight) while I
still can...
Happy Birthday Andy J!!
~and~
Happy Birthday to CJ Mark!!
I hope you both have a wonderful time celebrating :)
xxx
Robin T
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Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2001 21:56:55 -0600
From: "Beth Meyer" <bethmeyer@mindspring.com>
Subject: Alloy: OT: the economy 3, Meyer household 1
Hi, folks;
Well, it looks like between this Friday and whenever the new baby comes
(which could be any day now), I'll have more time for participating in
Alloy discussions. I just found out this morning that my job has been
eliminated, and Friday is my last day.
That subject line is our scorecard for the year, now that my husband has
been laid off twice in 2001 from two different Internet startups (but
just last week started a good new job).
It could, however, be much worse. As weird as it may be in some
respects to get laid off just before having a baby, I can kind of look
at it like maternity leave with no fixed end date. It would be much
weirder to get laid off with several months of pregnancy left, and not
be sure what I should be doing with myself before the baby arrives.
I'll also be among the very last group getting a decent severance
package: after this Friday, the standard severance package goes down a
LOT for most people. If another bunch of people get laid off in a
month, boy will they be upset...
What is particularly ironic is that the Denver Post newspaper just did a
three-part series on the impact of layoffs on individuals in Colorado.
Two of the three people profiled were my former co-workers who were laid
off as part of a mass reduction at my work location last fall. One of
them was a guy who had worked two cubes away from me, who still has yet
to find a job and is really getting rather down about it. (It seems
that he jumped into a new job too soon after losing his old one, and he
just wasn't ready for it -- a problem I'm not likely to have, under the
circumstances!)
I'm trying to think of a good Dolby tie-in, but the only one that comes
to mind is "Commercial Breakdown", a phrase that summarizes what seems
to be happening in my soon-to-be-former company. Come to think of it,
between us, my husband and I have seen a whole lot of commercial
breakdowns this year. But so it goes...
Cheers,
Beth
bethmeyer@mindspring.com
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