Surreal Tide of Change

Well, this week it has begun.  Layoffs announced on Monday.  Rumors beginning to fly on Tuesday.  Today, on Wednesday, the people begin to leave.  One by one.  You don't want it to be anyone you know.  Especially since they've already told you you're safe.  Then it happens.  You turn the corner and someone is in tears.  Then a closed office door opens and someone walks out with a box full of his lifetime with the company.  This is our family.  Many of us have spent ten to twenty years together.  We know each others families.  We play softball together. We've been through marriages and divorces, illnesses, and even death.  But still this family, this one stable rock, has stood and been there for us to come to day after day.  Somehow we knew that it would all be ok because on Monday, we would be able to laugh with the people we worked with, the people who seemed to understand us. And now, with the wave of an arbitrary wand, a new company owner has decided the fates of each of us.  Some stay. Some go.  No rhyme or reason.  Just a surreal tide of change.