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amatt - 2009-04-29 15:47:20
Beautiful.
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amy - 2009-04-29 16:29:09
Oh Paula, I'm sorry. SlurmCo was lucky to have your talent and wit and passion. I hope the next place you land will realize what a gem you are.
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Sue T. - 2009-04-29 19:19:13
Paula, so sorry to hear the news. Hope you're getting some severance $$. I wish you all good things in the future.
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Joe - 2009-04-29 20:19:37
Super best of luck, Paula. I hope you got a few months severance/work left so you can plan your next step in world domination.
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athena - 2009-04-29 21:10:38
slumco sounded pretty awesome. sorry to hear about it's demise, paula (or absorption or whatever). good luck!
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SFEli - 2009-04-29 23:05:03
don't you kinda sorta want to know how to make your dance partner fly through the air like that? Maybe sans khakis. Oh no. Sorry. Now I have to get naked swing dancing out of my head and it my own danged fault.
Paula. OtherThingsCo. will be lucky to have you.
I have a job opening out here with EW Fine Garden Care that starts June 1st. Just saying.
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2fs - 2009-04-30 02:17:01
A very nice tribute, and you're right that it's all too rare that a job can mesh with one's interests and loves (without draining the passion from it: sometimes I'm very glad I didn't do what I'd originally intended to do, which was to try to make a career in academia writing about music...).
It is also deeply sad that your situation (not the being laid off, the having the job in the first place) is so rare: that people expect their jobs to be drudgery, full of feigned interest, or settling-for. Or that, expecting the same, people never develop interests in the first place, only ordering them from the highlighted items already on the menu.
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Steve - 2009-04-30 03:00:32
I heard about the Macroglobocorp aquisition last week, and wondered about your future. High hopes for a happy one, and I'm relieved you haven't rolled up your blog carpet yet.
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villain - 2009-04-30 09:57:30
Paula, sorry to hear about the layoff/acquisition -- i hope it ultimately leads to good things. And I'm glad SlurmCo has be good for you; I'm sure you were good for them. Take care.
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iwombat - 2009-04-30 18:25:51
well worse than swing dancing in khakis (or even without) was the swing flu epidemic! http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/cartoonlounge/2009/04/swing-flu.html
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