Personal stuff...

I don't talk about personal stuff on this journal very often (or ever), but I promised the final chapter of Time After Time today and it's just not going to happen.

Instead of just not posting and offering that it should (maybe) be up in a couple of days I thought I'd give at least a brief explanation as to why there is a delay.

I work in the auto industry, not one of the big three but a company that supplies parts to them and other automotive companies. As such, because of the economy being what it is and the downturn in automobiles being purchased and made, there have been significant cuts made everywhere. This last week the salary group (of which I am a member) had its fourth cut of employees and I lost some very good friends, people that I've worked with for the entirety of the eleven years that I've been with my company. Some of them had close to 38 years invested, I'll never understand why they were cut and I'm still there. I sometimes don't think that I'll understand corporate America at all, why we keep people with less time and sometimes less experience and hope they can pick up the slack or experience that is needed to do their jobs through osmosis or something. I'm frustrated and sad and angry and kind of scared all at the same time. I've not felt like writing at all this last week and while I've come to accept that things like this are happening all over it still doesn't seem fair in the least.

Those of you that are reading it can expect it sometime this week, if not by next Saturday at the latest. I apologize profusely for the delay.