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Disaster Recovery Immediately request letters of reference Blow the dust of the resume (untouched for 5.5 years) Breathe
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Critical Incident - Surviving My First Layoff by Applying BCPDRP Principles
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- 1 Intro
- 2 "...All it takes is one bad day to reduce the sanest man alive to lunacy..." - The Joker, Batman: The Killing Joke
- 3 Enter Incident One: Early Warning Sign "The furnace stopped working again, and the house is cold." Went home around noon
- 4 Incident 2: Early Warning Sign Received a strange message from Chief Architect Asked me if I would be back in the office
- 5 Betrayal Anger Fear
- 6 DONT PANIC
- 7 Bad to Worse Old furnace = problems Thorough inspection before repairs Incident Severity escalated
- 8 Round Two! Continued compartmentalization Began planning requirements for recovery
- 9 My "Continuity" Plan 1 income mortgage Fully paid car (cheap junk) Saving for "rainy day"
- 10 Disaster Recovery Immediately request letters of reference Blow the dust of the resume (untouched for 5.5 years) Breathe
- 11 Furnace Disaster Recovery Turn it back on (It was February!) New CO Detector Quote for replacement
- 12 Recovery Great Recruiter- James Jackson TEKsystems
- 13 Lessons Learned Stable job can become unstable fast My Work/Life ratio was JACKED UP A support network is important. Former Coworker contacted me. It helped.