i don’t talk trash, i talk smack

today was probably about a hundred time worse than i could have expected. i think it was worse than most people were expecting. it all started early in the morning when i went over to the mailroom to pick up some interoffice mail envelopes. i walk in and our mailroom guy is packing things into a box. i couldn’t figure out what to say so i ran out of there as quickly as possible. later i find out one of out IT guys was let go. and it just starts piling up. ellie (one of my directors) pulled me into her office and had to tell me that my favorite local broadcast buying directors was let go. that’s when things just became completely shitty. a few minutes later ellie comes into my office and her eyes were teary and she tells me what janet (our local broadcast buying director) had just done … she was speaking to jodie (my supervisor) to regroup regarding some last things and she went out of her way to compliment how great of a person i was to work with and everything. that pushed me over the edge and i started tearing up a bit. it’s so hard to have to see someone you respect so much and who respects you so much be let go. the day didn’t get any better. tons of other great people were let go and it was an incredibly sad day all around the agency.

as crappy as the situation is i must say i have a great deal of respect for all of the upper management of the agency because they handled everything with such an incredible amount of humanity and grace. over the course of the past few weeks since we lost the big account i think we’ve seen every senior VP cry or at least noticeably sad at least once over the situation and knowing they were going to have to let people go. everyone got decent severance packages so that definitely makes it a bit easier for the atmosphere knowing that it’s not a life-and-death, out-on-the-streets type situation. it’s over now and that’s a bit of relief because we can finally turn the page and start a new chapter at the agency.

enough with the sadness …

it’s the weekend now, which is always a good thing. i stayed in this evening and did some relaxing which was a welcome change to this past week which was rather busy.

okay, so i have nothing else exciting to write about, so instead i’ll post a funny clip from this past week’s episode of The Office (forgive the quality, when it gets uploaded to youtube the quality deteriorates horribly, i will have to work on implementing my own flash video/music player on this site later this weekend): (update: videos pulled from youtube by nbc for copyright infringement)

and i’ll leave you with a funny quote:

i’m sweet like sugar, soft like suede, but unlike a piano, i never get played