February 1975 layoff notice from Vance Eckersley

from Jim Donnelly: Boy did I get burnt!!! Lee Tanner hired me part time for three days a week in September of 1974. Three months later, he put me on full time, so I moved from Waltham to New Bedford, to the corner of Spring and Seventh Streets, barely a block away from "Televison Center". Three more months and I was out on the street without a job! Four people, including Dennis Texeira and I, were laid off, after the union members voted to combine the production engineers and the master control engineers into one pool, with a promise of no layoffs. We thought it was going to be an opportunity to learn other skills. Thanks, Lee! Thanks, Vance! Thanks for your help dealing with this, Tom! Would I have followed the same path if I had known? Yep. Things turned out OK down the road... From Pete Mandell Notice the initials at the very bottom left - VLE/nlc . Of course, VLE are Vance's initials. The "nlc" is for Nancy Lee Carey, who used to work for me in Promotion, but apparently moved to work for Vance, after I left in August of 1974. She was famous for swearing - loudly - when she hit the wrong keys while typing and was quite a character. Vance may know her whereabouts; she visited him at WVEU here in Atlanta maybe a decade ago.

Source Jim Donnelly's collection

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