Boss laid off

公司的裁员风暴似乎是止息了。全球遍地开花， 裁了％８。

上周四， 正埋头做我的程序呢， 有人拍我肩膀， 扭头一看，是另一程序员，告诉我说今天是他的最后一天。 我还迷惑呢， 还问他是不是找到新工作了？ 他告诉我公司正裁员呢， 他和另一女工程师被裁了，还告诉我要小心些。总部这个地方会裁 ３６ 人。

哦，我明白了。不过还是接着做我的工作， 虽然老板下午才来。但天天活可紧着呢。

又听说另一认识的人被裁了。

中午时分， 管我们产品的市场经理来了，来说 farewell。他是被自己的老板从欧洲电话裁掉的。

午餐之后， 老板还没来， 组里人人自危，因为就我们组还没走人。我们老板在公司工作二十多年了，技术上可谓算法，软硬件呀， 仪器呀什么的样样精通，还做过R＆D的大老板。去年政治斗争输了才降级做小组长。我和老板共事好几年了，基本还挺愉快的，虽然老板什么都让我做， 自己只是出主意。但我有好几个孩子， 他不让我加班时间也还比较自由我也就不计较让他拿 credit 了。而且从他那我也学不少东西。

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2:00pm, my manager came back from his son's high school meeting. He looks happy. Yeah, it would always be good to hang around with young people.o idea abou
"i can not access my voce mail." He looks puzzled and has no idea about today's event.

I tell him that there are layoffs and our product owner is gone. He jumped up to look for his boss. Nobody was there and he came back.The whole group
chatted about the event.

boss was gone again.

At 3;30pm, my phone rang. Gosh, is it HR to inform me i am going to get a package? It is a colleague i had been worked with. she says farewell and told me my boss is also there.

4:30pm, boss came back, with his manager. They talked about some machines here and there. Looks like they are talking about work, as usual.I settled.

But some thing is still not right. Boss is doing something in his old office. His manegers put two more boxes beside his table--- Oh, it is some moving boxes.

Now I can not sit still any more. I got up to talk with another developer.
Boss came back so I asked him" is everything fine? "
"No, it is not good. I got layoff."

What? I totally faint --- My suspect is true but it still feels unreal. I had worked with him every day in the past several years and he will be gone now, forever?

THis would be my boss' first time im his 25 years' work experience. He had those feelings of a first timer although usually he was strong. he looks angry to be threw out by his company. That is probably part of his life already.He thinks he is sort of un-replaceabl.but now?