Some Day In The Life Story...
from the hired-to-fired-in-less-than-24-hours dept
Talk about a compressed job cycle. I have a friend who about a month ago moved to the Bay Area to take a job at a startup. Three days later he gets laid off as the company is being shut down by its parent company. I thought that was a record. Here, however, is the story of a guy who started a new job at a dot com early on a Monday morning and was laid off that afternoon as the company announced it couldn't secure financing and was shutting down. It's too bad the guy didn't get any severance pay.
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