Dot-com in a nutshell: First day on the job, a guy gets laid off. It’s not that interesting of a story, really, but it had that surreal ring to it. There are those who have put their heart and soul into companies. Then there are those who kinda thought they would kinda give it a try, everyone else is doing it. Sometimes you don’t get out what you put in. As my father always told me, life isn’t fair.