Sitting here depressed about the world situation (currently symbolized by Patricia's situation). I'm going to go make a pot of tea, though I don't think that will help much.
We're in a hiring freeze at the university where I work. We haven't had actual layoffs yet, but as staff leave and aren't replaced, we're getting more and more short-handed. Tempers also get frayed and people are less willing to work with each other constructively. I went through this when I worked in industry, and I'm really not looking forward to going through it again in academia.