Survivor’s Guilt…

Survivor’s guilt is the guilt felt by someone who, usually through no fault of their own, survives an accident that takes the lives of others.

I feel that way about this economy and job market.

On January 5th, Monday, I report to my new assignment, a one-year engagement in Washington DC.

In the next week or so it’s going to be announed that 2,000 or so people are going to be laid off of the company I was consulting for.

This is not my fault.  There is nothing I could have done about it.  I’m tremendously lucky to be “alive”

I still feel guilty  But I’m also angry.

Nothing sucks more than getting a pink-slip right before Christmas.  Especially from a company that continues to outsource a large number of support jobs to some god-forsaken hell-hole in India where they can’t even be bothered to learn the bloody language.  (This is not a racist comment, I say the same thing when I travel to Mississippi and Alabama, where they also haven’t really learned the language)

Just a short rant for today.  Got to get to sleep tonight.