The Happiest Sad Times

wow - anyone else having trouble with 'scheduled' blogs not going out on time? very upsetting... anyway, here is yesterday's...

My immediate manager was one of the folks who fell victims to our recent layoffs. It makes me very sad, because he was a bright ray of sunshine that sometimes lit up my very dark little cube.

One of his last employed acts was to pack his desk up in boxes, and redistribute items he (I assume) felt no need for. And so a last little bit of cheer brightened my gloom: in the form of the adorable skeleton you see in the picture, which until recently hung outside his desk.

He now occupies my silvery 'guest' chair, helping to remind stoppers-by to keep 'quick' meetings short -- you see what can happen if you get me talking.

:( So sad. Yet so cute, sweet, thoughtful.