When you were a short-timer

Can you recall people dealing with you in a way that made it abundantly clear they didn’t give a damn about you?

Something I saw on Twitter yesterday reminded me of this.

Once, when it had just been announced that I would be leaving one newspaper to go work for another, a colleague approached me. We were not close friends, but I expected some version of “Sorry to hear you’re leaving.”

Not quite.

What he said was, “Do you know what they are going to do about filling your column space?”