R U OK: Yeah nah yeah

Am I OK? Yeah nah yeah As a way of acknowledging “R U OK?” day on the 9th of September, I’m writing this post as a bit of a reply to that question. I’m also going to check in with some people close to me this week and I hope you do the same. Most everyone’s fighting a battle. See where you can help. On the day - a Wednesday - I recovered from my worst cold in a year I learned that I was being made redundant. The redundancy contract says that I can’t say more about it, even as much as I want to write about my experience. What I can say is that I found it quite enjoyably ironic that I was wearing my “This is actually my second rodeo” t-shirt (under a jumper) while receiving my second ever redundancy. By the following Friday I had made my decision: I’d leave the company and take a bunch of cash. That was two Fridays ago. I had a really great heartfelt chat with my team on that Friday morning. Then, I was locked out of my Mac by the afternoon. I found out about it via a phone call while…