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&lt;p&gt;&lt;font face=&quot;Arial&quot; size=&quot;2&quot;&gt;If you thought you were laid off unceremoniously, consider the story of Frank Scudere, and be glad that a layoff was all the trauma you had to endure. &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font face=&quot;Arial&quot; size=&quot;2&quot;&gt;Mr. Scudere had spent the evening in a Long Island hospital tending to his ill father before boarding US Airways Flight 1549 to head home to Charlotte, NC. After miraculously surviving the plane&#39;s now well-documented Hudson River ditch with his fellow passengers, Scudere showed up to his Times Square office at Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher &amp;amp; Flom the next morning. He was called into a conference room by an attorney he didn&#39;t know and told that though he had been on the list to be laid off, he would not -- &quot;at least &#39;not today&#39;&quot; -- be let go because he had been on the plane. The next Tuesday, his father died at age 77. Two months later, he was back in a conference room, this time being told that he was being terminated. &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font face=&quot;Arial&quot; size=&quot;2&quot;&gt;&quot;I was totally blindside, because I had been told there would be no more layoffs,&quot; he said. Yup, blindsided, like a flock of geese flying into a jet engine. What? Too soon?&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font face=&quot;Arial&quot; size=&quot;2&quot;&gt;Scudere comes across as having mixed emotions. Happy to be alive? Absolutely. Bereft of a sense of identity and&amp;nbsp;still slightly bitter over his&amp;nbsp;unceremonious termination? You betcha. I don&#39;t think he expected to be allowed to keep his job just because he was on the Miracle Flight, and personally, I don&#39;t think it would have been realistic for him to. I&#39;m reminded of a &lt;em&gt;Seinfeld&lt;/em&gt; episode in which&amp;nbsp;the tenant board&amp;nbsp;was ready to give&amp;nbsp;an apartment to&amp;nbsp;an Andrea Doria survivor but hesitated&amp;nbsp;after hearing George&#39;s &quot;Astonishing Tales of Costanza&quot; (&quot;Simply, horrifyingly, the story of my life as a short, stocky, slow witted bald man&quot;). &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font face=&quot;Arial&quot; size=&quot;2&quot;&gt;Scudere&#39;s story just goes to show you that A.&amp;nbsp;One random moment&amp;nbsp;could change your life forever whether you&#39;re anticipating it or not, and B. Considering the alternative for Flight 1549, a layoff isn&#39;t really the worst thing&amp;nbsp;in the world. &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font face=&quot;Arial&quot; size=&quot;2&quot;&gt;Keep fighting the good fight, watch out for those dirty&amp;nbsp;Canada&amp;nbsp;Geese,&amp;nbsp;and have a great weekend.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font face=&quot;Arial&quot; size=&quot;2&quot;&gt;&lt;br&gt;Lawyer Survives Hudson River Flight, Loses Job [MSNBC]&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;font face=&quot;Arial&quot; size=&quot;2&quot;&gt;--Posted by Steven Schiff&lt;br&gt;&amp;nbsp; Assistant Producer, Vault Web Content&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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