Black Tuesday

Yesterday was one of those days that you have a gut feeling that it will happen sooner or later, but you're stunned when it really does happen. About a half-hour after lunch was over our group manager at work called us all together to announce that our program had ended and most of us would be laid-off immediately and the ones that were left would finish a project and then they too would be laid-off. That meant that 16 of us were out the door (literally) and there were 6 left. We were all escorted out the door with whatever personal items we could carry, the rest would be boxed up and we could come in to pick up our box at a later date. So life goes on. Tomorrow will be "apply for unemployment day" and then the job search begins. It feels so strange to not have to get out the door in the morning and rush to work. I'll miss my co-workers. Some of us will keep in touch, some we'll never see again. Nobody even got to say goodbye to each other because they took us out one-by-one in alphabetical order. So surreal.