And somewhat early, too.
I was asked into the manager's office today, and he told me that they were letting me go - he gave me two weeks notice, though the office is closed on Wednesday and Thursday next week, what with it being Christmas, and I'll be down in Tennessee for a week from then on, so I'm not entirely sure how that's going to work.
I should say that I'm not entirely unsurprised by this. For one thing, just before, he'd told the web designer the same thing; and one of my jobs was to set up development websites. There'd been, I think, no more than a couple in the last month, so there wasn't any work coming in, and I suspect that they'd decided they could do without the designer - he'd been effectively on makework for a couple of weeks - and me, because I think I cost more than the younger ones.
I should also add that I'm not exactly unhappy, either. Winter has arrived with a vengeance, and this morning on the way to the bus stop, it was -36 with the windchill. No, that's not a typo. So I'm pretty happy that I'm going to be able to sleep in til a more reasonable hour for a little while, and get to the bus stop both when it's already light, and a little warmer (though that's somewhat relative - a balmy day at the moment is around -15, and the promised temperature of +3 this weekend will probably get me into my shorts.
I'm busy baking the cookies for tomorrow, so I'll just have to see whether management take them with their usual enthusiasm. It's pretty tempting to split them into two batches, and offer cookies from different batches to colleagues based on how much I like them. Because who doesn't like getting into people's heads?
I think I'll probably leave the job hunt until I'm back in Canada in the New Year. It will be nice to have a break between jobs, and let me unwind some; and really, if you're going to do that, you might as well do it while it's so cold outside. Just hope that I don't get snowed into the apartment; or if I do, and my witterings on the blog are more surreal than normal, please send help.
