Window to Dell Decline | MetaFilter

Window to Dell Decline | MetaFilter: "When I got an e-mail from my boss's boss asking me to write a manual on how to do my job, I saw the writing on the wall. The end was near, but I went into ostrich mode and ignored the looming threat. After all, I had avoided being laid off for nine years. I'm invincible, and the company will fall apart without me. So when I had that uncomfortable conversation with my boss and the HR rep in the little room with the stack of laptops in the corner and the bag of badges, it came as a bit more of a surprise than it should have."