15
Jan
Posted in Folklore | 4 Comments »
photo credit: Mayu ;P
Some of you may know this already, as my identity is not so anonymous as I might like it to be, but I went to high school (5th grade through 12th, in fact) in a smallish-to-midsized Alabama town called Decatur.
Yes, there’s one in Georgia, too, and Illinois, for that matter. But my dad (a chemical engineer who’s now back to work after retirement, congrats Dad) was transferred to the one in Alabama to help manage one of the big chemical plants.
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Tags: alabama, business closures, c.f. penn's, decatur, decatur daily, economy, elvis presley, franklin penn, history, local color, memory lane, nostalgia, recession, secret ingredient, yankee transplant
25
Oct
Posted in A Layoff Story | 1 Comment »
I was reminded by a former coworker that yesterday was the one-year anniversary of our dear old departed mag folding.
I remember that day fairly vividly: the confusion when my direct deposit paycheck didn’t go into my account (once in the office we were handed “live checks” by the suits who came to deliver the bad news); my anger that once again the bigwigs were trying to skinflint us (we’d been plagued with financial problems in that last month or three and my job had became, essentially, arguing with AP to get our freelancers paid); my heated conversation with the editor-in-chief over what he was doing to protect us…
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Tags: accounts payable, chaos outside the boardroom, dmv express, east side, editor in chief, fighting the good fight, final destination: the magazine, magazines folding, nostalgia, office problems, one year anniversary of layoff, snarky, temporary offices, west side, work family
