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>>>Anyway best of luck with it all.
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>>>BTW does this mean you won't be so crabby in the future? :-)
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>>No! LOL
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>>Who you calling crabby, bogroll?
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>Do you actually know what a bogroll is? Or is it something different in the USA, or did you pick up the expression in the UK?

Different name for the same thing. In the U.S. it's called a roll of toilet paper.

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>>I am hanging in there. (Apart from waking up at 3 a.m. this morning with my head ablaze with nightmare scenarios).
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>Like Britain retakes the USA - with just 100 Royal Marines - and makes you all play cricket?
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A fate worse than death!

>>I Have some good contacts already and am staying as positive and industrious as I can. I just have to keep faith that this will be relatively brief and will have a happy ending.
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>>The company I left has its own spin on a redundancy program. Basically everyone involved in software development in any way is going to be replaced by a worker in an office near New Delhi. They opened it a year ago, have 50 employees now, and expect to have 200 employees in another year. And the word I was getting from coworkers at corporate HQ in Connecticut is nobody is being offered severance, they are just being replaced. Nice.
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>So they sort of Smile at you behind your back while stabbing you in the front.
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>You see, you make it too easy for the employer by having the rhyming "hire 'em" and "fire 'em". In the UK it's:
>"employ them" and "sack them" - doesn't roll off the tongue so well.
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>Chin up, old Beane!

Chin up.