It's Official...I am part of the bum squad. Which means I am unemployed!

     This is my way of dealing with the “trauma” of being fired.  At approximately 3:30 this afternoon, I ended my tumultuous reign as resident troublemaker at the “Corporation State.”  I am not sad or angry all I am is humiliated.  The following scene is an accurate account of when went down as I received my walking papers. Some of this has been fictionalized and embellished for artistic content.




     She is standing there filing when The Almighty summons her to his office.  As she walks in, she sees a security guard and thinks that this cannot be good.  She is filled with anxiety as she closes the door and sits down.   He looks at her and says, “This action plan is not working out so we have decided to terminate.”  Dumbfounded but not shocked, she replies, “Okay.”  He goes through his rehearsed corporate story and tells her about things such as benefits, unemployment and so on.  When he is finished she asks, “Why is security here, I am not going reach over there and strangle you.”  She is given forms to sign and her final paycheck then asks him politely to ask the security guard to leave.  He says, “No anything you have to say you can say with him here.”  

     She gets up. She is followed by the guard out of the Almighty’s office.  She walks down the hall to the place where she has called home and begins to clean it out.   As they ride down the elevator, she realizes that she has left something behind.  They ride back up to retrieve the missed item of memorabilia.  She turns around to see them all standing there waiting for her exodus; she is now humiliated.   In a flash of biting wit she says, “Well, it seems that I have an audience.”  She then gracefully bows to the people at her left and then to her right.   She then with security in tow, boards the elevator one last time never to return.  



I am thinking now that it is for the best.  I can take this time and focus on my writing.  With unemployment and my 401K I should be okay until tax season starts in January 2006.  Here are my final thoughts about this humiliating experience.   I cannot believe that senior management would watch me leave.  I felt like saying don’t you people have nothing else better to do; but I refrained.  I am also perplexed by the fact that people are fearful about what they do not understand and don’t want to understand.  If “leadership” acts this way I did not want to follow them anyway.  I have always gone against the status quo and not be one of the crowd.    I guess that is one of the reasons I am now gainfully unemployed.  I will not miss Ms. Nosey Parker and the Compulsive Queen.  Therefore, they all can relax and continue their practice of backbiting and double standards.  I know come Monday I will be the topic of conversation.  They will relentlessly put me down; after a spell I will be yesterday’s news.


So for you at the “Corporation State,” BUSINESS AS USUAL!