Greetings from an airplane!
Well, not really. I am not going to pay out the ass for
in-flight internet service, so this will really be posted once I’m back on the
ground.
Anyways…
So, I realized that I haven’t really given a substantive
update on my life on here lately. I’ve given you plenty of information about me
as a person, but not what this person is doing. I kind of realized that after
receiving a text from a family member asking about San Diego…and I moved away
from San Diego about two weeks ago.
Life has been, in a word, interesting.
On August 13, the Olympics were over, I was still in London
and looking forward to exploring for two days with my friend and roommate (in
San Diego and London), Karen. She was leaving on the 15th along with
most everyone else from work, so I wanted to spend some time with all of them
before I was on my own for a week.
Then, August 14th rolled around. I woke up in the
morning and saw an interesting Olympic-related article on the internet and
decided to share it on some work social media pages. To my utter shock, when I
got on Facebook, I had been removed as an admin on the dozens of pages I had
run for Ludus. Wondering if there was some strange sort of internet issue, I
tried to log into the hosting site we used and check the network status. The
password had been changed.
Now, there had been rumors flying around for quite awhile
that some people would be getting the boot at the end of the Olympics. I even
point-blank asked my supervisor before leaving for London if I needed to be
looking for a new job. He said no. Since
I had a skill set that no one else in the office had, I figured I was safe.
Joke was on me.
I called my supervisor immediately after seeing the changed
passwords. “So, [insert name here], am I getting fired this afternoon?”
His response: “Ummmmm. Let me call you back.”
Of course, he never did.
Turns out, the same admin removal thing had happened to
Karen, so we had an idea that our “exit interviews” that afternoon, purportedly
for us to discuss our London experience with the company, were going to be
“firing sessions.”
To be continued...Part 2 will be posted later today!
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