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Because no Friday in Hollywood could feel complete with just a single report of layoffs snuck in before executives happy to still have their jobs slink off for the weekend, we pass along this note from a reader lamenting the end of an era at Paramount, the studio that seems to get itchy if it doesn't pink-slip a few employees every couple of weeks or so:

Today is the last day for the soundstages at the Crosby Building at Paramount to be open and used. In a cost cutting gesture, Paramount will close the soundstage where so many of its hits were scored over its history and turn it into OFFICE SPACE. The creative geniuses running the place have decided that instead of spending the money to upgrade the stage, it would make more sense to close it, send the work outside, lay off employees on short notice and turn the great acoustical stage into a CUBICLE RIDDEN OFFICE DRONE AREA. Good work Paramount! And let's give Tom Cruise more gazillions to make losers!

Any scoring stage employees or contracted musicians still rolling their cello cases around the lot should immediately head for their cars before they're discovered by security, who've been instructed to quietly escort any stragglers to an "exit interview" that consists of being stuffed into the studio's new employee disposal system and flushed out onto Melrose Avenue.