The elephant in the room

 I've mostly talked about personal stuff here, but politics these days is fucking horrifying.Of course, they aren't totally separate. If you haven't voted already, please do so, and I'll be more specific and say vote Biden.

It would have been a cool prophetic dream if it had been the night before

Remember this, when I said work was unremarkable? Ha ha ha, shouldn't have opened my big fat mouth. On Thursday I was told that four of my six teammates were getting fired. Throughout the contract, there's going to be a 25 percent reduction in force and apparently us technical writers are less essential than some people. The team leader is among those four. I'll essentially be inheriting the team. Our responsibilities aren't changing, just the people working on them. 

Obviously my situation is better than the four who got fired, but it still doesn't feel that great. 

It's funny, I've thought of my current job as unusually secure. I was unaffected by the 2018 shutdown because this department is funded by user fees. But I should have thought a bit harder because those user fees are affected by the pandemic.