They Fired Me On My 55th Birthday After 29 Years But Three Months Later The Company Was Fighting To Survive

No speech.

Just a woman standing and walking out of the room where three decades of her professional life had been administratively closed.

HR escorted me to my desk, which was company policy and therefore not unkind specifically, just the ordinary mechanical efficiency of institutional endings. I packed a cardboard box. Photographs. A coffee mug from continue reading …