As of 4 o’clock today, I still have my job. 161 of my colleagues are not for fortunate.<\/p>\n
There was a board meeting this morning, then HR set up shop in our building and started handing out the notices. We lost one guy in our group – brilliant programmer – and then heard stories throughout the day of great people being lost and whole departments being decimated. \u00a0I kept a list of the ones I heard about – those absences will be creating some terrible gaps.<\/p>\n
Tomorrow, the rest of those affected will be notified and we’ll hear more about our friends and colleagues losing their jobs.<\/p>\n
It’s a dark time for the University.<\/p>\n
I don’t know that anyone got much done today and tomorrow will be much the same. We’ll all kind of shell-shocked.<\/p>\n
And then we’ll sort through the rubble, find the survivors, and start to rebuild. The start of the fall semester is a month away, but somehow we’ll pull it together.<\/p>\n
I have a lot of questions that I know won’t be answered and a lot of worry and loss to deal with. I can’t imagine what those folks who didn’t make it are going through and they are in my thoughts tonight.<\/p>\n
I’ll write more when I’ve had some time to process this. \u00a0It’s just… too much right now and my heart is aching for my friends.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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