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Jun. 28th, 2002 11:27 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sorrowmonkeyThis hasn't been a good week.
Zohra's still not feeling completely recovered, which upsets me a lot. I want nothing more than for her to feel like her old self again, but the dizziness and aches remain.
The Worldcom layoffs (and it's impending bankruptcy) I largely approve of, since when I worked there it was nothing except waste, waste, WASTE. That company was so high on itself that no one realized how completely broken everything was. When I heard the news, my first though was "It's about damn time!", but my second thought was "damn, I have friends there". I think they should quit laying off the people who actually do their work, and see how much they can get for the accumulated hides of the management.
I won't bore everyone with an extended rant about Worldcom management, but lets just say, it sucks at the bottom and it only gets worse as you go up.
I spoke with my friend Tom who still works for Worldcom/UUnet, and he said they laid off 25% of the people in the Ann Arbor, MI office. I probably knew 85% of all of the people in that office personally, so that many people are now out of work, and in today's economy, that is a financial disaster. There just aren't any jobs right now, and I know, I've looked. I've been under the gun enough times in the past year that I simply can't afford to bury my head in the sand.
I won't go into too many details, but my opinion of mortgage companies is unchanged. The good ones suck less (there's a nice historical ANS reference. Ah well, hopefully they'll get done pushing paper around sometime soon.
Zohra's still not feeling completely recovered, which upsets me a lot. I want nothing more than for her to feel like her old self again, but the dizziness and aches remain.
The Worldcom layoffs (and it's impending bankruptcy) I largely approve of, since when I worked there it was nothing except waste, waste, WASTE. That company was so high on itself that no one realized how completely broken everything was. When I heard the news, my first though was "It's about damn time!", but my second thought was "damn, I have friends there". I think they should quit laying off the people who actually do their work, and see how much they can get for the accumulated hides of the management.
I won't bore everyone with an extended rant about Worldcom management, but lets just say, it sucks at the bottom and it only gets worse as you go up.
I spoke with my friend Tom who still works for Worldcom/UUnet, and he said they laid off 25% of the people in the Ann Arbor, MI office. I probably knew 85% of all of the people in that office personally, so that many people are now out of work, and in today's economy, that is a financial disaster. There just aren't any jobs right now, and I know, I've looked. I've been under the gun enough times in the past year that I simply can't afford to bury my head in the sand.
I won't go into too many details, but my opinion of mortgage companies is unchanged. The good ones suck less (there's a nice historical ANS reference. Ah well, hopefully they'll get done pushing paper around sometime soon.
