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

could not have reached that fortieth floor without me. Just a termination packet, an HR director who avoided my eyes, and a speech Daniel had clearly rehearsed until the regret in it had been reduced to a professional register that sounded almost like kindness.

I should have been furious.

Instead, I felt something quieter and stranger than anger. Numb,continue reading …