http://ignorantium.com/2010/05/19/transitioning-from-jaded-to-grizzled/?source=rss More reactive than flourine. Funnier than boron. Fri, 12 Aug 2011 20:41:56 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://ignorantium.com/2010/05/19/transitioning-from-jaded-to-grizzled/comment-page-1/#comment-451 Kirk Cheyfitz Tue, 29 Jun 2010 01:39:09 +0000 http://ignorantium.com/?p=1297#comment-451 This reminds me of a story I did about 40 years ago, when I worked at the Detroit Free Press as a reporter. I grew up in Washington, DC, the land of the lifetime job. When I moved to Detroit,of course, I rented an apartment and my landlady asked me a very weird question when I told her my employer. "Do they have layoffs very often?" she wondered. I had to ask her, "What's a layoff?" A while later, I retold that anecdote in an op-ed piece to try to explain to Detroit readers how the mentality of a federal civil servant gets formed. I'm still not sure anyone in Detroit can comprehend a city there are never any layoffs (except at AOL, of course). This reminds me of a story I did about 40 years ago, when I worked at the Detroit Free Press as a reporter. I grew up in Washington, DC, the land of the lifetime job. When I moved to Detroit,of course, I rented an apartment and my landlady asked me a very weird question when I told her my employer. “Do they have layoffs very often?” she wondered. I had to ask her, “What’s a layoff?” A while later, I retold that anecdote in an op-ed piece to try to explain to Detroit readers how the mentality of a federal civil servant gets formed. I’m still not sure anyone in Detroit can comprehend a city there are never any layoffs (except at AOL, of course).

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