{"id":198,"date":"2007-07-12T08:29:48","date_gmt":"2007-07-12T08:29:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alephnaught.wordpress.com\/?p=266"},"modified":"2007-07-12T08:29:48","modified_gmt":"2007-07-12T08:29:48","slug":"laid-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/2007\/07\/12\/laid-off\/","title":{"rendered":"Laid off"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"content_div-198\">\n<p>It finally happened &#8211; I got laid off from LaSalle Bank on June 29, 2007.\u00c2\u00a0 First time in over 20 years.\u00c2\u00a0 LaSalle Bank has been trying to reduce costs for years, and they&#8217;re finally putting out a bunch of people to do that.\u00c2\u00a0 Will it work?\u00c2\u00a0 I don&#8217;t know.<\/p>\n<p>I probably should have followed events in the purchase (and likely demise) of LaSalle Bank, but I didn&#8217;t.<\/p>\n<p>I spent 10 years with ABN AMRO in a wide variety of functions &#8211; that was what made it good for me, every time I needed a new challenge they gave me a good one (for example, I was part of getting senior management 20% of their bonus for at least three of the years I was with the Bank).\u00c2\u00a0 I got a pretty good package and so don&#8217;t have to be desperate (yet).\u00c2\u00a0 I&#8217;m looking around &#8211; my resume is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Resumes\/BobTraditional\/Robert_Hays_resume.htm\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a> so if you know of a position for someone with my skills please give me a call or email me.<\/p>\n<p>And otherwise I&#8217;m catching up on all the little projects I never had time to do, and we&#8217;re going to Paris for a few days to relax (and shop and see Chartres).<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"translate_block\" style=\"display: none;\">\n<hr class=\"translate_hr\" \/>\n<a class=\"translate_translate\" id=\"translate_button_post-198\" lang=\"en\" xml:lang=\"en\" href=\"javascript:show_translate_popup('en', 'post', 198);\"><span>Translate<\/span><\/a><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/google-ajax-translation\/transparent.gif?resize=16%2C16&#038;ssl=1\" id=\"translate_loading_post-198\" class=\"translate_loading colorbox-198\" style=\"display: none;\" width=\"16\" height=\"16\" alt=\"\" \/>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It finally happened &#8211; I got laid off from LaSalle Bank on June 29, 2007.\u00c2\u00a0 First time in over 20 years.\u00c2\u00a0 LaSalle Bank has been trying to reduce costs for years, and they&#8217;re finally putting out a bunch of people to do that.\u00c2\u00a0 Will it work?\u00c2\u00a0 I don&#8217;t know. I probably should have followed events [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[8],"tags":[79,83],"class_list":["post-198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal","tag-job","tag-laid-off"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2w3Qj-3c","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=198"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}