No matter what kind of relationship you had with your ex-boss, it always boils down to money. If you were let go for financial reasons, then you need to realize that they thought they didn't need you. (i know what that's like). When they decided they do need you (i also know what that is like) then make it only about money, not friendship, not christianity, not charity. I've been through a similar situation (i was offered my old job back, plus new responsibilities) and as a christian, it was difficult to maintain any semblance of the spirit that we are expected to have. The only way I dealt with the situation was to realize that it is always about money, no matter how jovial the relationship with your employer.
No, we would not have danced in the streets, we wouldn't have cared enough. I know that in a typical day I and the people I work with give very little thought to the rest of the world, they just don't matter in our day to day lives. Perhaps that is what we expect from the rest of the world. Why would they spend so much time and energy thinking about us, hating us, when we spend little or no time thinking about them. We don't hate them, we don't like them, we don't know them, how can they have any meaning whatsoever to us? Perhaps this is naive and isolationist, but isn't necessarily wrong or bad.
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wasn't this in "The Diamond Age" by Stephenson?
No matter what kind of relationship you had with your ex-boss, it always boils down to money. If you were let go for financial reasons, then you need to realize that they thought they didn't need you. (i know what that's like). When they decided they do need you (i also know what that is like) then make it only about money, not friendship, not christianity, not charity. I've been through a similar situation (i was offered my old job back, plus new responsibilities) and as a christian, it was difficult to maintain any semblance of the spirit that we are expected to have. The only way I dealt with the situation was to realize that it is always about money, no matter how jovial the relationship with your employer.
No, we would not have danced in the streets, we wouldn't have cared enough. I know that in a typical day I and the people I work with give very little thought to the rest of the world, they just don't matter in our day to day lives. Perhaps that is what we expect from the rest of the world. Why would they spend so much time and energy thinking about us, hating us, when we spend little or no time thinking about them. We don't hate them, we don't like them, we don't know them, how can they have any meaning whatsoever to us? Perhaps this is naive and isolationist, but isn't necessarily wrong or bad.
sorry for the rant
i can't believe that there is still anyone who trusts any corporation, or the government, or pollsters...