Looks like I'll be freelancing again

[Katherine Noftz Nagel <katnagel -at- eznet -dot- net>]

I was called into my boss's office this afternoon.  RTE "has 
re-evaluated the way it handles documentation, in the light of the 
current economic situation, and has decided that it would be in the 
company's best interest to continue our relationship on a freelance 
basis".

In two weeks I get my last paycheck as a full-time employee.  No firm 
commitment to how many freelance projects they plan on, of course, or 
to a specific pay rate.  <sigh>  It isn't clear whether I'll be 
eligible for unemployment benefits, either, since I haven't actually 
been laid off, just 'reclassified as an external resource' (whatever 
that means).

That was at 5:30 PM.  When I got home at 7:00 and looked at the mail, 
I found the estimate for car repairs from my close encounter with the 
deer---$5200+change.  Thank <insert Deityname> for a good insurance 
company with a reasonable adjustor and a dynamite local agent.
--
Kat Nagel
"If the business notion of best practices had been applied from the
 dawn of human civilization, human beings never would have achieved
 civilization."         Christopher Locke,  EGR newsletter 15May2001

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