so i didn't lose my job because i was a bad employee, but because the business never caught on and then eventually failed. i accepted it, recognizing that these things happen, but what happened in the last days was what really soured me: the CEO decided to stay on, to take care of the website and nurse it back to health. and that certainly seems noble in and of itself, but he was totally neglecting the fact that he had already laid off or let go all the colleagues who had helped him to build that very website. (the co-founder actually resigned because the CEO wouldn't agree to step down from his throne and help to restructure the direction of the company on a more equal level.)
it was mainly an empathic experience for me.. after all, i hadn't been around since the beginning; the company had been around for a little bit less than a year when i arrived in the city to take a job there. it just bothered me seeing my former co-workers so tossed out and neglected in that way. he was actually going to go on with the company alone, forcing himself (whether intentional or not) into the role of the martyr. all the while, he owed the exiled team a bunch of money in unpaid wages and accrued vacation time. i've yet to be paid, in fact, and apparently he's got four or five new employees with plans to hire more. somebody's getting paid, it's just not me.
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