Suent Scientific sold APRF to OFÉ.

From little oafs, big ofays grow.

OFÉ stood for Optical Fiber Enterprises.

bRIGHT mOMENTS was a lightweight residential cable OFÉ made that was going to save the company from the coming recession.

I don't know if it saved OFÉ. It didn't save me.

I was FMPed. Force Management Program. A subset of Continuous Workforce Rebalancing. CWR.

Don't ask me what happened to OFÉ.

I had FMP myopia.

My head was in the blocks. All I could see was the basket with the previous guy's head in it.

I was declared an essential person and survived the transition from Suent to OFÉ. But then, six months later, our whole Documentation Group was let go.

I was fucked by the Fickle Finger of Fate.

Nothing to take personal.

The boom was over. The business cycle was contracting. Expelling waste. I was waste. Garbage. Human garbage.

I felt like human garbage. Where would I get another good job at my age? I was almost 62.