>Well folks, my company has laid me off. I'm looking for work if anyone has any.
Sorry to hear that.
I just finished my work at Bata Shoe Organization, too - they didn't want to renew my contract. Supposedly there isn't so much work to do (I disagree), and "what little maintenance work" is left for the system I was programming can be done - according to management - by another guy who is staying (and who is also in charge of a few other projects).
Personally that isn't a great catastrophe, fortunately, since I have several other small jobs teacher at the Cisco Networking Academy, occasional translations, and others. And probably some occasional work with Bata Shoe Organization, perhaps when my baby doesn't behave.
Difference in opinions hath cost many millions of lives: for instance, whether flesh be bread, or bread be flesh; whether whistling be a vice or a virtue; whether it be better to kiss a post, or throw it into the fire... (from Gulliver's Travels)