A pleasant surprise this morning- an extra hour of work!

Odd, yes. But you see, we'd only just had a meeting where our CEO crowed endlessly about how we managed to make a profit in a down economy last year. And all by "managing labor costs." Which is to say, cutting myself and my coworkers down to half-time and yelling at us a lot for non-billable hours.

It's understandable-- better half-time than layoffs. But if only they hadn't sounded quite so smug and pleased with themselves, and made an attempt to remember the people that were giving up a lot for that small profit margin.

It's a shame I love my job. I could be a lot less poor right now.