  The week at work was an interesting one. The arbitration with GovGuam happens this week, so most of my time was spent gathering data to support our position. It was a pretty busy week. The axe dropped on Friday. A round of layoffs struck our office and there was lots of crying amongst the survivors.
Of course we couldn't see the unfortunate, they were dismissed immediately, and not allowed to mingle with the employees. Their cubicles sat empty all day, a silent reminder of the recently departed. Their personal effects still littered the cubes. They could return on Saturday to collect their things, under the watchful eye of a human resources representative and a security guard. Seperate the living from the dead, the wheat from the chaff. 
