SND.org: Sarah Slobin on being laid off – ‘the office becomes like Lord of the Flies’
March 12th, 2009Posted by Judith Townend in Editors' pick, Job losses, Jobs, Journalism
“The tension is unbearable. The office becomes like ‘Lord of the Flies’. We split into tribes and dredge up weaknesses in our colleagues. We speculate. We make lists. It’s our survival mechanism. It’s awful,” writes Sarah Slobin (@sarahslo) who was infographics director at Fortune magazine before being made redundant.
Here Slobin describes, in a personal and descriptive piece for an issue of ‘Design’, how ‘nothing stays the same’ when you’re made unemployed.
Tags: Design, director at Fortune magazine, Fortune, infographics director, Lord of the Flies, sarah slobin, snd.org
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