ta11235

+1000 - any ideas? Stories of successful escapes?

As an employee of a similarly large company with similar demographics, please allow me a rant:

No surfing the internet.

No candy fucking crush or whatever it is you sociopathic mouthbreathers play on the commode WITH THE SOUND ON.

No texting your grandmother/spouse/lover/gerbil.

And finally, for the love of all that is holy, leave the laptop at your goddamned desk, you fucking savages.

Sit. Shit. Split. That's it

First, I'm genuinely sorry to hear you lost your job. I know how demoralizing that can be, especially when you add depression to the equation.

I, too, have severe clinical depression. On average, it manifests three times a year for approximately six weeks at a time. It's cost me at least one job in the past, and I know I've quit several on account of "not being able to take it anymore." I'm in the middle of an episode as we speak, trying desperately to hold down a SWE gig at a large Bay Area internet company. My fingers are crossed, as it's performance review season.

I don't have a solution to our mutual problem, but please remember you're not alone.