April 17, 2008
AND IF YOU ASK ME HOW I'M FEELING
DON'T TELL ME YOU'RE TOO BLIND TO SEE
My thanks to everyone who has called and e-mailed to check on my employment status as a result of the news this week that the Tampa Tribune is offering buyouts to half of its employees.
It's been quite a week. It's a fairly surreal experience to look around at your workplace and wonder which half of the chairs will be filled in two month's time. It's also more than a little bizarre to read comments about your own employment situation on the Web site you work for.
Several times this week, I've had a moment like the one in "Wall Street" where Hal Holbrook as the character Lou Mannheim drapes an arm around Charlie Sheen's yuppie stock trading character Bud Fox and walks him down the hall right before the SEC arrests the young man. Holbrook imparts this wisdom: "Man looks in the abyss, there's nothing staring back at him. At that moment, man finds his character. And that is what keeps him out of the abyss."
I know that feeling all too well.
I've done some soul searching, considered my options and thought long and hard about what to do next.
With that as context, I have a major announcement to make.
Explanation: RickRoll'D