Unemployment Week 3

After being laid off from EA I went straight to work finding myself a new job.... unfortunately I am still working at finding a new job. It's been too long in my opinion and there is now a need to get this taken care of.

I was watching Mission Hill the other day and thought about Andy French. That lovable little scamp ended up being screwed over by the IRS aressting his boss and shutting down the waterbed store he worked in. There is a two part episode on his unemployment where he lies on the couch with malt liquor and bugels watching barf-a-thons and such.

Anyway, he finally gets that dream job he's always wanted in the end and gets a tooth fixed. I am hoping for something similar soon.

I got laid off

The thing I miss most is my laptop.

The thing I miss second most is beer n cake

The thing I'll miss third most is the people.

I was one of the 600 people laid off worldwide from EA last week. Apparently it was some good house cleaning to save 50 million a year in salary. It compensates slightly for the 310million lost in revenue I guess. I'm going to wait till mid November to see if the share price goes up a after NFS Undercover comes out then sell my stocks regardless.

I found out the night before I was going to lose my job which made it a little easier because I could prepare for it. I packed up all my stuff, said goodbye to some folks and took one last walk around the place setting things right here and there.

I know some of the management group at EA reads my blog and are probably wondering how I found out. The answer is, you're not at all careful. When you call my boss who sits 3 ft away from me on his phone which is turned up really loud you can be heard. Like wise when you send emails about it to said boss when his screens face towards where I sat and he has me remote connecting to his Mac with only email opened on it then.... well it becomes realllllllllll easy. I mean com'on.

Now that I have left we've really been thinking about what to do. I had an interview on friday and am a candidate for a position (of which there are 6 and there are 8 applicant) that starts in a week at $2.xx less an hour than what I was earning. So that's coo. That would mean that this severence is a nice savings chunk. We bought bookcases to run the length of our hallway and a new bed, dresser, storage for sebastian's room. Now tonight I was going to mount a tv only to find there is brick behind where I want to put it. Sux.

More to come.