December 30, 2008 - 10:00 A.M.
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- TAGS:layoffs
- IT TOPICS:Careers, Management
This IT pilot fish reports from a place where full disclosure and transparency regarding layoffs are a little hard to come by.
In other words, the real world.
"We generally found out that a colleague had been fired when we tried to call the person and the office phone number no longer worked," he says.
"Things got a bit tense one day when the phone system went on the fritz...."
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