What better topic to talk about during the economic downturn than LAYOFFS? Right, well, if you’ve been following Law Shucks, you know of our nifty Layoff Tracker that presents and analyzes the data for the first time in an organized and intelligible manner.
Well, now we’re introducing the Laid Off Diary – a diary of one corporate BigLaw attorney who was laid off, given the boot, shown the door, shit canned, pink slipped, downsized, discharged, dismissed, displaced, given the ax, made redundant, etc. (Which reminds me, how many people got the line: “Your new job is to find a new job”. Well, lawyers were never known to be witty or creative. I mean, really? how long did it take you to come up with that line? The same amount of time it took to decide whom to lay off??)
Some of you might have been following the Diaries from its former home at laidoffdiary.wordpress.com, but it will now be hosted here at its new home on Law Shucks so that you can get all the juicy info you ever wanted to know at one place. All new content will be here on Law Shucks exclusively, and we’ll be selectively re-posting some of the previous gems.
Why are we bringing Laid Off Diary over? Well, Law Shucks has established itself as the clear leader in the cold, hard facts of law firm layoffs. Now we’re softening things up and giving a personal perspective to one of the more than 10,000 people who have been affected (and soon to be more as we haven’t hit bottom–sorry to break it to ya).
But it’s not just the Diary – yours truly is bringing a fresh, brash, insightful perspective and a lot of new ideas to Law Shucks.
N.B. The new series is called Laid Off Diary, not Koolaid Drinker With a Job Diary, so expect some snarky and perhaps slightly angry and possibly taboo reflections inbetween what I hope will be insightful posts.
So, stay tuned, this place is about to get a whole lot more interesting…
You will be able to access all of the Diary entries by clicking on “Laid Off Diary” on the menu bar at the top of the page.
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That is awesome Laid-Off. Congrats!
cool, glad the diary is getting a bigger audience