: About Me

Hello all;

I am a 55 year old male living in beautiful St. Augustine Florida.

Business background includes 30+ years of IT expertise in a variety of environments. Former small business owner and currently working for a large global corporation. Travel both domestically and internationally for work and pleasure.

BA in Technology studies
MBA in Finance

Former marathon runner, now spend most of my sports time with tennis. Shorter runs! Play singles primarily. Interested in exercise and most participatory sports.

Divorced with 3 kids (not living with me) 18,19,24.

Always loved writing but at work it is limited to RFP responses and emails. Giving this a shot.....

Take care

Michael

Creative Writing > Satire Satire: Work

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Reduction in Force (RIF) The term Reduction in Force or commonly abbreviated, RIF has become part of the big business landscape. Certainly hardly a week goes by without some announcement by some enterprise that thousands of workers are being let go. Of course this pleases Wall Street analysts who see this as a "trimming of the corporate fat". The riffed employees of course see it otherwise. Many of these layoff events seemingly hit random groups of employees; those supporting outdated products, those with higher salaries (replaced by lower earning counterparts) and yes potentially a few no...

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