Please tell me you'd be hurt too...

At my going away party the other night, my boss came late from the faculty meeting. She said that the dept chair announced at it that I had been let go (most faculty thought I was leaving of my own accord - a perception likely reinforced by the fact that I sent a long thank you email to the department in which I thanked a lot of people individually - incl. the dept chair and my boss - for everything they had done for me). He also announced that two other staff were being let go.

One of those people was at my party. Luckily she had been given something of a heads up by my boss the day before - but it was at that time still iffy. It was no longer iffy.

So her boss and my boss spent much of my party talking about how horrible it would be if that person was let go and strategizing how to get some of the more influential faculty to fight for her.

This happened in front of me.

At my going away party.

I had been let go.

No one fought for me.

That I know of at least.

I was crushed.

It sucked.




I spent most of yesterday in bed, crying.