Happy New Year

So not my best New Years ever. The wife is not feeling well and has gone to bed - leaving me with the TV on mute, listening to a Star Wars podcast (Order 66 - check it), and typing this. Bring on the New Year - HAH. There's a joke in here about waiting for a ball to drop - I'll let you run with that.

Work is going well - bonus day - so always a good day. Especially since so many are not getting some. I've been on the wrong side of a pink slip/lay-off notice/sold the company. Take heart - every time this has happened to me, my feet have landed in a better place. Here's hoping for a good landing.

So...

I waited in my cube for the call. Still trying to fix that one armrest that never seems to be right or stay put. Benny is on the other side of the fake wall that barely makes a pass at trying to preserve any privacy. He's tapping. We're both on the way out. Our application fell out of favor with the new VP. Didn't really have a chance. None of his sycophants (I looked that one up after someone used it) had any experience with it so it was automatically suspect. Probably didn't have enough current buzzword acronyms on the website.

Quote from the podcast "Icing on the Cake of Shame" - sweet - especially since it's about the Dallas Cowboys. I hope to use on the Yankees.

Anyway, I tell him to stop tapping, and I don't think he even heard me.

"What"

"Stop tapping - it's annoying", I tell him.

"You always say that", he looks at me with a smirk, still tapping.

"You're always tapping - you're going to get carpal tunnel whatever", I smirk back. "And you're about to lose your benefits".

OK, that went over the line, and I'm about to apologize when a phone rings. Silence. It's not mine. Someone a couple chairs over gets up and walks toward the big office. More silence.

"That was wrong dude - your Mama wrong", smirk.

"Your Mama gives me benefits", double smirk.

For just a moment, all is right with the world.

Ring - my phone - my boss.

"You need to go down to the VPs office. Take something to write with. I'll talk to you after...hopefully." She sounds tired. She's looked tired for a couple weeks, ever since she came by and told us to stop any new development.

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"What are we supposed to do?" That was Benny, he's quicker than I am.

"Don't get caught." Silence, what are you supposed to say.

Benny says it, "caught doing what?"

"Whatever you can find to keep you busy. Online training, companies book library, whatever..." She closes her eyes and puts her head down. "I've been told to stop all new and current development for your app. I wasn't told what to do in its place."
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I grab a pen and pad and walk to the back.