Pixy-Led » job loss sad friends coworkers family http://www.pixy-led.com to find oneself heading in a totally different direction than the way intended . . . Tue, 27 Sep 2011 20:35:23 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 I miss my beautiful friends . . . http://www.pixy-led.com/2008/03/14/i-miss-my-beautiful-friends/ http://www.pixy-led.com/2008/03/14/i-miss-my-beautiful-friends/#comments Fri, 14 Mar 2008 06:26:25 +0000 Twice http://www.pixy-led.com/2008/03/14/i-miss-my-beautiful-friends/ Today was the last day for another coworker.  In the short year plus I’ve been at my current job so many people have left. I feel like I started at the end of an era. What’s worse; I feel like I found a really great team to work with, only to have it shattered by poor corporate decisions and bad circumstances.

I work(ed) with an amazing group of people. Smart, innovative, creative. Friendly, funny, silly, even. We have shared some great ideas and to have that just torn apart by uncaring, underachieving management – Well, its just shit.

I often fantasize how great it would be for all of us to start a company together, away from the constraints of the corporate machine that keeps us from accomplishing anything. The 20-percenters. The thinkers and the doers, the innovators. Of course it is just that – a fantasy. We’re all mid-career, needing the guarantee of a paycheck and not the risk of a start up. Still, it makes me sad, so much potential lost.

Tonight, I saw another brilliant, talented person walk out the door. Everyone gathered. Including several of the people that had left prior. I was so happy to see them all, yet couldn’t help but feel angry at the company that fucked it all up. Still it was good to see them. Such vibrant people. I miss you all.

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