Archive for January, 2004

Shitty week, part three

By kate on January 8th, 2004

Today my office was blindsided by surprise layoffs. I have already weathered one round a few months ago, where they got rid of most of one department. Today the powers that be decided to give the ax to seven people sprinkled throughout the company. (Fortunately, I was not one of them.) Some of […]

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Shitty week, part two

By kate on January 8th, 2004

Because I got into work at 1pm, I worked until 9:30pm. When I left and went down to the parking garage, I realized that my car alarm dongle was completely dead. I had no way to disable my car alarm. I unlocked the car (setting off the alarm) and started the engine. The beeping […]

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Shitty week, part one

By kate on January 8th, 2004

Yesterday involved two “adventures”: First, I managed to wangle the day off to go skiing (because I worked over the break). I checked the road conditions in the morning and found that Snoqualmie Pass (where we planned to go) was closed. Ok, no problem, so we headed to Crystal. Both the website and […]