Calamari tastes really bad? Sure?

You probably disagree, but let me explain.

To many of you, there is only one kind of calamari that tastes really good and I like it a lot too. Am I being an idiot? No! There is another kind that you don't know of really, really, sucks.



In Chinese, Calamari is similar to a dish called "stir fry squid," which is also a saying for "being layoff." Ah ha, now you couldn't agree more.

My mood tonight is on the down side, not so much because of the death of the crab, but the announcement of my seven co-workers who are on the chopping board and seven more on the buyout offering list. Compared with thousands and thousands of workers that have been let go in corporate America in one single day, you may ask what the big deal is here.

These seven positions are in the first wave of layoff, yes, but precedent to this, there have already been four rounds of buyouts which chopped away about 130 (maybe more ) out of about 400 employees in the newsroom alone. Now, you tell me if this is a big deal percentage wise.

Sigh...