Laid off 101

Will work for food…

I guess this wasn’t totally unexpected.  After a year of working for miserable pay, with a miserable boss, and miserable hours, I left my job.  Actually I guess I should say my job left me, since they were kind enough to point out that I seemed a touch miserable, and suggest I could be happier [...]

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Tara gets laid off from fancy law firm

It was Friday, August 15, 2008, 11:37am, 1 year and 331 days after I, fresh out of law school, started working at a corporate law firm in New York. I was called into the head partner’s office, knowing nothing more than (a) head partner was about to leave on his annual 2-week end-of-August vacation and [...]

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