It just popped out of nowhere! At least this is how it happened in Jim"s perception. Oh, he knew since the before-Christmas office staff meeting that Mapleview Cable was experiencing a lack in customer growth. There were rumors floating around of a possible company buyout and even layoffs. In fact, even the name of the company that would purchase Mapleview Cable was known by some of the people throughout the office. It was a German company by the name of Fernsehen Comm. For weeks the inevitable was unofficially made known to the staff of Mapleview Cable, but only in the “rumor stage”. But Jim did everything in his power to ignore the warning signs. It wasn"t his focus. No worries for the future and no concerns of what he would do for money if laid off later that year; it was almost as-if J
