The Dead Company Club

“The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.”     Oscar Wilde

In case you weren’t sure, the neighbors are buzzing about you. Your company is gone and they know it. While you’d like to pretend nothing happened to you, face it. Your job is gone. The neighbors want to know what happened to you so they can gossip with authority. So go ahead – give them something to talk about.

Tell them you are:

And your company:

Or you are part of a corporate study on:

Finally, if you want to be perfectly clear, you can tell them the traditional answers. You were:

Ultimately your neighbors want to know enough to gossip about how much your self-esteem has been crushed. And the answer to that, my friend, is up to you.

Laurie Phillips is a business writer who has found the term “freelancing” very effective in deflecting nosy acquaintances. Read more about her “freelancing” here.

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