To be fair I didn’t work with him that long. He’d only become my department supervisor (my third in two years) only several months before Siemens sent our jobs to India and all of ur conversations were cordial and professional.[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I had hoped to have a chance to talk to the office manager. Not in connection with my past job or the layoff, no, nothing to do with that. I was hoping to ask him if he had any connections[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
It’s difficult to put into words and pictures just how much of a shock and then how down I felt after the rug was pulled out from under my, and all the other graphic designers, feet last Thursday. Compiling tonight,[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
It’s still difficult to understand. I woke up early, even though I really didn’t have to. When the phone rang and it was that PA Turnpike job Product Manager I’d forgotten all about the meeting we had planned today. By[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Just like that. Sure, I guess if I was reading the tea leaves I could have suspected something with all those new procedures they’ve been shoving at us since the end of 2020. But to get through all of 2020,[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
It felt good to have a fully functional laptop back. Even though I never really needed the sound in order to get any of my graphics done, still, it’ll be so much easier to sit through our Teams meetings by[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Yes, I’m old enough to have worked at companies and studios that, if my computer was down, or if I didn’t have access to one, I could still function in my daily tasks and complete designs or drawings for my[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
For any new readers of my comics, or long time readers who may have forgotten, I’ve discussed the damaged keys on my laptop several times in my comics. This comic from August of 2017 talks about my disappearing keys (which includes[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I know that they like the idea of getting work done in India, they pay them practically nothing compared to what we get in America, but this idea doesn’t make a lick of sense. Making duplicate pages is simple. All[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I’m felling good today, both because I don’t feel sick and that my Covid test came back yesterday negative. I guess I shouldn’t be too surprised about all the forms, pertaining to my health, that I have to fill out[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…