Sweet dreams are made of tease

I have had several interesting dreams these past few days. One was particularly vivid that when I woke, I actually wondered whether I had to go to work. I’ll explain:

In my dream, I was sitting at my cube. I went over to my coworker’s cube, but she wasn’t there, so I start looking for something. Suddenly a freelancer in our office, A, comes over and tells me that my coworker, C, has told her that she is quitting her job in about a month. I am shocked, and A says, “Oh, I’m sure she was going to tell you.”

C comes over and is surprised that A said anything. But she says, yes, I was going to tell you. I’m planning to leave in a month, after I train a new hire on my job. But then suddenly, I don’t remember how we get the news, we find out that we are getting laid off, that our division is being let go. C and I look at each other and are just kind of ambivalent. We start packing our stuff into boxes.

My boss comes out of his office, and he has angry tears in his eyes. He says, “How can she do this to us?” Apparently, the “she” he is referring to is his boss (who is really all of our bosses); he seems to think she had something to do with this. He goes tromping off. C and I simply shrug it off, and continue packing our boxes. A skinny Chinese security guard (I have no clue why he is Chinese) comes over because he is supposed to escort us out. He even helps me start packing my boxes. As I pack, we see two security guys escorting out someone who is ranting and raving. It’s my boss! His hair is all of a sudden Albert Einstein-like crazy, his eyes are wild, and he’s saying how they can’t do this to him. I remember feeling shocked because I had actually thought he’d been secretly looking for another job. (At work, he’ll disappear for hours or shut his door for a time. Very curious…) I just simply shrug and keep packing. Then…beep! beep! beep!

I can’t believe that I dreamed about this, because it basically combined all the stress/annoyance/current events at work that I’ve experienced lately—especially this past hell week. I guess it was my mind’s way of letting me make my dreams come true, so to speak, in my head. But damn. What a tease! It was still all just a dream.