5 years, 7 months, 5 days
Yesterday, I was laid off from ISC. By freakish coincidence, this was 6 years to the day after I was laid off from Wind River.
I can't point you to a press release, because officially I'm still on payroll for a while. Because it's apparently easier to get a job if you still have a job. So you didn't hear anything about layoffs here. (Really, I asked them to CC those of who are "affected" when they come up with the Official Messaging, because I don't know how to spin this.)
Lest you get the wrong impression, I don't hold any animus towards my current-and-almost-past employer, because this is what employment-at-will is all about. We both get to decide, at any point, that we're done, and that's it, it's over. Gone, baby, gone. It doesn't matter that they're a 501(c)(3) non-profit, the same legal rules apply, and the same revenue/expenses logic applies.
And really, this is how I leave jobs. I haven't actually quit a job since 1988, when I graduated* university and moved to the Boston area. In 1990, the grant that funded my MIT job ran out. In 1997, I volunteered to be laid off from FTP Software. In 2008, our projects were internally outsourced to our new Beijing office, and we were let go when the Chinese were fully trained.
*"Graduated" is a slightly strong term. It turned out that I had a technical writing course to complete, which I completed while working at MIT, so my degree says January 1990.
I can't point you to a press release, because officially I'm still on payroll for a while. Because it's apparently easier to get a job if you still have a job. So you didn't hear anything about layoffs here. (Really, I asked them to CC those of who are "affected" when they come up with the Official Messaging, because I don't know how to spin this.)
Lest you get the wrong impression, I don't hold any animus towards my current-and-almost-past employer, because this is what employment-at-will is all about. We both get to decide, at any point, that we're done, and that's it, it's over. Gone, baby, gone. It doesn't matter that they're a 501(c)(3) non-profit, the same legal rules apply, and the same revenue/expenses logic applies.
And really, this is how I leave jobs. I haven't actually quit a job since 1988, when I graduated* university and moved to the Boston area. In 1990, the grant that funded my MIT job ran out. In 1997, I volunteered to be laid off from FTP Software. In 2008, our projects were internally outsourced to our new Beijing office, and we were let go when the Chinese were fully trained.
*"Graduated" is a slightly strong term. It turned out that I had a technical writing course to complete, which I completed while working at MIT, so my degree says January 1990.