Ed Park, a novelist and former colleague of mine, blogs today in the New York Times about the idea of a personal layoff narrative. Park writes:

You step outside your office building for the last time, and instead of a wayward beam of sun warming your face, you see boarded-up windows all along the block, and the box in which you've packed your major cubicle possessions -- Rolodex, spider plant, reams of something having to do with your 401(k) -- is about to fall apart.

On today's podcast, we'll hear from a worker who barely saw it coming.

categories: Economic Scene

1:45 - January 12, 2009

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