tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-55582010773127490842024-02-19T08:29:17.626-08:00The Empty Pocket BlogA Travelog for the Journey Through Unemployment and UnderemploymentThe Empty Pocket Bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14875101936773784747noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5558201077312749084.post-62381281514074389372013-02-05T10:53:00.003-08:002013-02-05T10:57:33.564-08:00A Word on WordsThere's been something on my mind lately. A very specific something. Its the use of the term "let go" by many, if not most, companies when they layoff employees. I, myself, have been recently laid off and I couldn't come to terms with that phrase. Let Go.<br />
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It has a certain implication of restraint. As if the employer had been holding onto you, holding you back from bigger and better things. As if they are doing you a favor by "letting you go." I'm not sour at all, of course. Shocked, but not bitter. I did, however, quite enjoy having a paycheck at the end of the week and a purpose for my days. I even liked having something to complain about over dinner. So that particular wording weighs on my conscious as false. A double-speak term employed to mislead our former coworkers that they have nothing to worry about since we weren't pushed out. Rather we had finally succeeded in our campaign to escape.<br />
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The only thing left now, I suppose, is to make it true. We will have to use our resources and cunning to make it on to bigger and better things. Escape the drudgery of not having a place to go everyday and make our days into something exceptional.<br />
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I know so many of you out there have also been let go by your employers, whether recently or not. I hope by reigniting this blog as a traveler's log on my journey through unemployment and underemployment we may find the answers to success. However that may be defined by you.<br />
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So cheers, my friends! A toast to new beginnings and 'letting go' of employers passed.<br />
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-EPBThe Empty Pocket Bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14875101936773784747noreply@blogger.com0