My son, who has been all over the world in the last 16 years, has been living in San Jose for the past few years. His his husband got laid off from his tech job in Silicon Valley. This is a harbinger for things to come for California. This is the canary in the coal mine for a major part of California's economy. There was an article in the paper the other day about cracks showing in Silicon Valley's once glowing promise of tech innovations that fueled the local economy and beyond.
I had that news four years ago from people actually living the nightmare way before the news reported it. Let's go even deeper. Many of my friends are getting laid off (or family members getting laid off) after 25+ years of dedicated service to SlaveDriver, Inc.
How about that! What THANKS!!!! Thank you for dedicating your life to SlaveDriver, Inc., while you missed your daughter's first steps and first ballet performance. Thank you for missing birthdays and other milestone family events because of some dumb-ass conference we forced you to go to to give a presentation to people who do not care, or take up your entire weekend (without extra pay nor recognition) to fix a computer programming bug that was jamming up financial transactions between institutions where you worked for 24 hours straight. Here is what we will give you after a lifetime of dedication and performance: YOU GET LAID OFF.
Where am I going with this? My son just wants to come home back to Sonoma County where he grew up. My son has a job that affords flexibility for location, and his husband will find his way as he is very smart. They just need to get re-established back here where they have a network of family and friends. There is no place like home. Sometimes kids needs to move away to appreciate it.
Caution to those who slave away for SlaveDriver, Inc. They do not care one *bleep* about you. They only care about profits. Keep that in mind.
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