Today I went in and cleaned out the rest of my personal items from my office. It was sad. Really sad. I'm grateful that I cleared out some of the more high end electronic stuff earlier and so I didn't have much to do this time.
But it was still hard. I loved working at this company. I had a lot of responsibility, a lot of freedom to design the program that was best for the company and our employees. And I was very good at it too.
My key card had been deactivated so I couldn't even enter the building like I normally would. I had to be escorted back to my office because I knew that my key card would not open my office door. I entered my office and it looked like my office mate had just stepped out of the office for a moment. There was work spread all over the round table that was in my office. I moved those items out of the way and started pulling things from drawers and off the walls and piled them on the table.
I emptied drawers next and piled those items on the table too. I started placing all those items into the bags that I brought. My poor Christmas tree, with the ornaments that employees placed on the tree, was put into a plastic trash bag so that I wouldn't loose the bulbs.
Everything that I took home were items that I either purchased for use at work or were mine to begin with. I remember the reason behind why I brought those particular items in, how I used them and who even used them.
It's sad when one is forced to move on like that. I could have finished out my career there; it was that good of a place to work. I will miss most of the people there. It's sad really because it didn't have to end this way. It didn't have to end at all.
But it did.
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