Survived today's bloodbath
May. 21st, 2008 05:16 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
connaticI survived today's layoffs at work. It was the second round this, of another 5 percent. Of my New York team of about 50 people, four got laid off. Ouch. The third round is being planned for a few months from now - there's no such thing as job security these days.
Most of the day was spent sacnning the revoked users list in real-time for friends and enemies, and gossiping about it; as the senior managers were too busy walking around dragging poor sods to HR meetings, very little actual work got done. Ah well.
After doing some coding, I am now reading Douglas Crockford's "JavaScript: The Good Parts". It's a surprisingly good book, and the first three chapters have shown me how much I have mis-understood the language so far. The book is also surprisingly thin (100 pages, plus another 50-odd in appendices), but that's probably out of necessity. Now, "Windows: The Good Parts", that would be a really thin book...
Most of the day was spent sacnning the revoked users list in real-time for friends and enemies, and gossiping about it; as the senior managers were too busy walking around dragging poor sods to HR meetings, very little actual work got done. Ah well.
After doing some coding, I am now reading Douglas Crockford's "JavaScript: The Good Parts". It's a surprisingly good book, and the first three chapters have shown me how much I have mis-understood the language so far. The book is also surprisingly thin (100 pages, plus another 50-odd in appendices), but that's probably out of necessity. Now, "Windows: The Good Parts", that would be a really thin book...
