RE: Best laid plans of mice

["Cardimon, Craig" <ccardimon -at- M-S-G -dot- com>]

Excellent twist. The best kind.

 
Craig Cardimon
Technical Writer
Marketing Systems Group
ccardimon -at- m-s-g -dot- com

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Pro TechWriter [mailto:pro -dot- techwriter -at- gmail -dot- com]
> Sent: Tuesday, December 02, 2008 1:14 PM
> To: Leonard C. Porrello
> Cc: Cardimon, Craig; Technical Writing
> Subject: Re: Best laid plans of mice
> 
> Liked Craig's message too.
> 
> My story has a twist. See below:
> 
> On Tue, Dec 2, 2008 at 10:32 AM, Leonard C. Porrello <
> Leonard -dot- Porrello -at- soleratec -dot- com> wrote:
> ...<snip>
> 
> > That
> > you have been laid off indicates that a decision maker in management
> > considers your projects unnecessary and expendable. <snip>
> 
> 
> Yes, they did think what I was doing was expendable, but then they
changed
> their minds!  After two weeks, they found out what I was doing was
> critical
> to the business. I went back to work for them as a contractor for two
> months
> so I could train someone else (who did not have the background IMHO to
do
> this, but that's another story) to take over the policy and procedure
> knowledgebase that I built from scratch.
> 
> I got a very nice hourly rate too. ;-}
> 
> Just goes to show you, sometimes those "powers that be" are not really
in
> touch with what their employees do, or even what their business needs
are.
> 
> PT
> 
> 
> >
> 
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