'Survivors' guilt' and layoffs ...

February 27, 2009

Government employees are looking over their shoulders as lawmakers grapple with the sea of red ink ... and pink slips are prepared. How can the survivors help their departing colleagues? What's lame and what's helpful? And how do you deal with your own "survivors' guilt'?

Someone near and dear spots this reference in the new American Bar Association Journal, and its link to this terrific piece on the Wall Street Journal.

And while we're at it, talking about people losing jobs, here's a link to a fresh Seattle PI piece on the possibility of a no-newpaper Seattle ...

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