Liminal Moments
THE ORDINARY WORLD 6 Jan 2020 "The company has decided to restructure." The artists and programmers in the conference room fell into a stunned silence. I wish I could say that I was surprised, but that would have been a lie. "Workforce reductions have been identified," the latest nine-month wonder corporate leader -- a slender, attractive redhead who didn't so much endure the attention she received from her male colleagues as encourage it -- gripped a printed email between comically long, but meticulously manicured nails, her gaze locked on the page as she read. "and unfortunately, the people in this room have been identified as part that reduction." I shook my head and sighed. This job -- one I'd held for almost six years -- had been hard won. Medical issues had forced me from IT, so at the tender age of forty-two, I retrained as a Visual Effects modeler and artist. This, ironically, led to another five years in IT until, finally, I landed a contr...