{"id":774,"date":"2008-10-31T10:58:00","date_gmt":"2008-10-31T14:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ceffyl.net\/wordpress\/?p=774"},"modified":"2008-10-31T10:58:00","modified_gmt":"2008-10-31T14:58:00","slug":"flashback","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ceffyl.net\/wordpress\/tech\/flashback\/","title":{"rendered":"Flashback"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I used to work at a company called <a href=\"http:\/\/ipix.com\">iPIX<\/a>. Like many other companies, it was struck down during the dot-com-bomb of 2000-2001. My job there was my dream job &#8212; and it stayed that way for the first 18 months. After that, things went downhill but not for what I was doing, but just things in the company in general. Any IT or internet-based business at that time was a chancy place to work. (Job security? What&#8217;s that?)<\/p>\n<p>Before the first round of layoffs, the employees were given a copy of the book &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.whomovedmycheese.com\/\">Who moved my cheese?<\/a>&#8221; We had peptalks about upcoming change. You know, the kind that try to make you feel better without providing any details of what &#8220;change&#8221; really means (a sure sign of impending doom).  <\/p>\n<p>A fellow iPIX survivor emailed me this Dilbert cartoon today. I just about lost it. We both got the joke. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/dilbert.com\/strips\/comic\/2008-10-31\/\" title=\"Dilbert.com\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/dilbert.com\/dyn\/str_strip\/000000000\/00000000\/0000000\/000000\/20000\/9000\/700\/29704\/29704.strip.gif\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Dilbert.com\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h3>Related Images:<\/h3>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I used to work at a company called iPIX. Like many other companies, it was struck down during the dot-com-bomb of 2000-2001. 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