• LovableSidekick@lemmy.world
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    22 days ago

    I got laid off from my most meaningful job (Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Institute) because of cutbacks resulting from the 2009 “Savings and Loan Crisis” - which happened to occur while the grant that paid for my job was being renewed.

    I got laid off from my most fun job (World Opponent Network, a spinoff of Sierra Games) because of cutbacks when the parent company lost a shareholder lawsuit after some executive fuckwads cooked the books to manipulate the stock price.

    The big-money people don’t care what kind of shit rains down on the peasants. Their world revolves around having more money they don’t need than they had last year when they also didn’t need it.