They Finally Laid Me Off
International Megabank, formerly the Megabank Holdings Group, and before that Mega Turnblot Solomon Capital Markets Inc (I created the logos for all), finally got around to laying me off on January 17, 2008. This was a long time coming--say, seven or eight years. I would have got the axe earlier but I was being paid so little it probably didn't seem worth their while to make the effort. You know--like that 7-dollar-a-month online periodical that you signed up for five years ago and never read. Throughout my career there my contempt for the place was palpable. Yet I cherished the thought that I was inside a big, big whale that would never drown, because whales never drown (do they?). I should have caught the warning signs last summer when International Megabank's stock dropped from 60 to 50 to 40 in the course of six weeks. This was long before the shady-mortgage crisis had made its way to the front pages. Since then International Megabank's stock has gone to 20, and ...