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Subject:Re: Nasty Surprise: The Story of High-Tech Jobs From:Wayne Douglass <wayned -at- VERITY -dot- COM> Date:Fri, 29 Jan 1999 13:44:12 -0800
At 04:18 PM 1/29/99 -0500, Maury King wrote:
>I wanted to thank the members who responded to my posting. It's worth
mentioning that what hurt me the most about being laid off was that I
really liked the job and that I was liked there as well.
Four words, Maury: "Get Used To It."
--Wayne (who has never left a tech writing job but has been laid off twice)
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