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Damocles

  1. I survived the second round of layoffs in my area this year...

    Since 2001 the company I work for has been laying people off (I didn't work for them then, I was a contractor with a team of employees. I sold the contract and secured employment at the company for my team after the second round of layoffs. So far we're all still here). We haven't gone one month since the first layoffs without hearing about another round somewhere in the company.

    This year, in our area alone, there have been two layoffs, this last one got about 7% of the people ...