Erci and I are headed to Evo Bistro in McLean to celebrate our anniversary and her new freedom from a job. In fact - today is the 14th anniversary of our wedding, the 12th anniversary of her hiring on at AOL, and now the day she was laid off from AOL.
Update: On our way into Evo, we ran into Jacques - who we know from dancing. He is one of the owners of Evo and the wine selector. It was exactly what Erci needed, and we have excellent Tapas and very good wines by the ounce (which means you can try several).
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I like the freedom aspect, but you’ve got my sympathy on the annoyance of it side.
Scott, Erci,
Happy anniversary. I am sorry to hear about the layoff. I hope that doesn’t dampen the evening for you.
Best regards,
Craig
Thank you both for the support. We managed to have fun despite the life-changing-event. There will be new opportunities, but we are both mourning the loss of one of the best work/life experiences we’ve ever had… and yeah, though I still have a job (for the moment) it is clear that it will never be the same. Too many excellent people were cut with no rhyme and no reason this time.
Rhyme or reason? Perhaps too much of the second, and not enough of the first. Numbers can be wonderful, a tool to take emotion out of rational decision-making; but rigid adherence to the cult of numbers eliminates the human in any equation, and reduces the weighing of a decision to a mathematical exercise that excludes consideration of all the difficult-to-quantify factors that are measured by experience and wisdom, and appear not in any spreadsheet. Rigid adherence to numbers is the safe harbor of the incompetent, the incomplete, and those who are afraid to be measured on the basis of their own judgment.
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