To work or not to work

[cjsmith]

There is less and less suspense over the eventual outcome of the layoffs. No new development is expected to survive in my division. Almost everyone I've spoken to is now hoping to get laid off, because getting the package is better than being the last one out to turn off the lights [and getting no package].

I just summed up the mood here in a piece of e-mail: "Eat, drink, and be merry, for tomorrow we may never see each other again, and besides there isn't any actual work to do."