Bad sad day.
We've known for several weeks that it was coming but today it's happening. The people I work with who have been laid off have been packing up their stuff, turning in their issued equipment, and going around saying goodbye. A lot of us have been on the verge of tears all day. Some of us have gone past the verge.
Across the agency, 79 people are losing their jobs effective tomorrow, and a little more than 20% of them work in our division.
Quite a few of my co-workers -- and they still are that, till this time tomorrow -- have found other work. Some found work at comparable pay, and some took jobs paying a lot less money just to be able to have a salary and benefits of some kind. There are also some who haven't found anything yet. They're all good workers, down to a man, who would make excellent employees, but no one is hiring in their fields.
God, this is so awful.
