Skeleton Crew

Day shift has a little less than twenty people left. On swing shift there are only four or five of us now. It's weird walking through buildings where hundreds of people used to work and see nothing but empty floor space. Other areas had large groups of employees working in cubicle mazes doing who knows what. The cubicles are all still there, but no one occupies them anymore. It's as if everyone suddenly died from disease.

There are three main instrument product groups left in this division, Network Analyzers, Spectrum Analyzers, and Sources. All three product groups had a rather large amount of employees assigned to support production. Now they're a shadow of what they once were. Network only has a couple of technicians on swing shift. Same goes for SA. The only people I see walking in the hallways anymore at night are custodial staff and an occasional security guard. That's it.

B-Rad and Garden Gnome are gone. Their last day came and went already. I had a good time working with both of them while it lasted. Too bad I didn't get to hang out for a couple more months with that Garden Gnome character. God damn that guy is hilarious. B-Rad is funny as hell on his own but both of those guys kinda played off each other well. Made coming in to work fun again even if it only lasted for a few weeks.

Boozealler has been swept away by a recent wave of layoffs. I think he wanted to go, but I still feel awkward about the Bossman's comment after I approached him asking to keep Boozealler out of Button Up. I wasn't trying to get the man fired. I just wanted him out of my hair.