After A Layoff, Colleagues Disappear

Touching story from Theodore Ross in the New York Times’ Opinionator about being laid off from Harper’s, and what happens to your social life afterward.

“I received no gold watch or commemorative plaque, and the $75 service fee to cash out of the profit-sharing program was higher than the amount owed me,” he writes, but at least there were some farewell cocktails involved. First, he went to a bar with his old editor and a writer he’d worked with for a few years.

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