Wrongsized

After I got laid off (this dang economy) I did lots of things, including writing little bits and pieces about what I was going through and how I felt. Here is a tidbit of that, from right after “the incident,” which- coincidentally- is described below:

“Your position no longer exists.  Effective immediately.”

Just like that, as though he were talking about a clerical error, or the fact that we could no longer expense business lunches our Vice President effectively kicked me in the metaphorical a** and changed my entire world.  Although, in retrospect I saw it coming- the moment I walked into that small dark office and noticed that nobody but me had a notebook and pen.  As soon as he started speaking in that smug, matter-of-fact voice I knew that my time there had come to and end.