The clock started at 10 a.m. today as I was escorted out of the building with the first three things I could grab off my desk (all pictures of my son).
At least I received 3-4 months worth of severance.
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Posts: 233 (07/15/08 9:49 AM) Surreal
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Posts: 164 (07/15/08 10:29 AM) Would it behoove me to bring up in a matter of discourse that
I am getting laid regularly now?
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that sucks.
Can you could enjoy the summer before looking for a new placement?
I'd love it if you stuck your Willy Wonka between my Oompa
Loompas.
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Posts: 234 (07/15/08 11:00 AM) Surreal
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I guess I could, but I'd rather not leave it up to chance.
I'll take the rest of this week to re-evaluate things and decide what it is that I really want to do. I've heard from a number of my now former co-workers. I was the first shot. Others followed me out the door. |
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Posts: 827 (07/15/08 11:02 AM) Has cute toes |
Oh shit, I'm sorry.
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Posts: 77 (07/15/08 11:04 AM) |
This was from the ex's family's business?
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Posts: 235 (07/15/08 11:10 AM) Surreal
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Yes. The ex FIL sold the company to a Fortune 500 about two months ago and we knew lay offs were coming. I was pretty sure I was one of them and had been
searching for a new job and preparing myself.
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Posts: 236 (07/15/08 11:34 AM) Surreal
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Posts: 829 (07/15/08 12:24 PM) Has cute toes |
I got 17 as well!
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Posts: 78 (07/15/08 2:19 PM) |
Yes, but I could kill a barnyard sow!
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Posts: 91 (07/15/08 3:25 PM)
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I'm sorry Jester, at least you have some severance pay coming your way. I hope it will sort out sooner rather than later and that you can find a suitable
job.
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Posts: 15 (07/15/08 4:29 PM) Lawyer, Tall, Tits...
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Very sorry to hear that. I have a friend who is going to find out tomorrow whether she is one of the many layoffs at her company (a certain local newspaper)
and we live in perpetual terror of layoffs here at my own firm. And another friend just got laid off last week. Bad, bad times.
You say I'm a bitch like it's a bad thing...
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Posts: 237 (07/15/08 5:05 PM) Surreal
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incrediblegobstopper wrote: Great. I can beat up as many as a girl. I had that going for me. |
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Posts: 833 (07/15/08 5:22 PM) Has cute toes |
I'm not afraid to use them as a weapon.
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Posts: 136 (07/15/08 6:12 PM)
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Sucks, I'm looking for a new job myself, before the one I have now goes up in flames. Extremely difficult company to work for. No incentives ( that any
normal person could ever qualify for ) and way too many punitive measures in place. Hell, I got wrote up today for trying to do someone elses job for them as
well as mine because they had called out. I had to delay some paperwork to try to move stuff along. Just some records keeping that I could have caught up
before the end of the shift, but that wasn't good enough, I didn't follow procedures and was insubordinate to boot, says my self proclaimed, easygoing,
not at all overbearing boss ( note sarcasm ). To his way of thinking, any idea I have that differs from his or from stated policy is insubordination. If I
bring up points that go against his draconian policies, I'm arguing with him. To him, the paperwork is all. No need for common sense.
I hate my job. I'd walk if I knew I could find something even close to comparable pay wise. NULLUS ANXIETAS |
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Posts: 11 (07/15/08 6:32 PM) Gender Bender
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You're going to hate me then. I got 23.
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Posts: 139 (07/15/08 7:12 PM)
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27. Yeah, I'd pick up some little girl and beat the rest of thier brains out with her. I've seen too many movies where people get sentimental. Of
course, if it was my kid or one I knew well, it'd be a lot harder.
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Posts: 12 (07/15/08 7:48 PM)
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My boyfriend (who is now on probationary status with me) has been in a grant-funded position for almost five years now. The grant ends on 9/30 and he has gone
for one lousy job interview this year. There are three jobs he could be applying for right now, but he will wait until the last goddamn minute and ask me to
proofread his cover letters at 4:45 pm on Friday as usual. Sometimes it seems that I am more stressed out about his impending unemployment than he is. And
there ain't no severence pay when you work for the state of Kansas.
OH, NICE, I LOVE THE COUGAR THINGY (NOT!)
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Posts: 215 (07/15/08 8:01 PM) Hiddle bink patoodle flarg |
Sorry Jester.
I know this badass security posse that is hiring but you have to be totally cut and shit. "What went wrong was everything."
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Posts: 216 (07/15/08 8:02 PM) Hiddle bink patoodle flarg |
Mostly shit.
"What went wrong was everything."
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Posts: 238 (07/15/08 9:21 PM) Surreal
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I'm re-evaluating and stuff.
I think I want to go Office Space and work in construction. If I could be paid enough to be a 37-year-old carpenter's apprentice and a soccer coach, I'm all in. I have to look into this. ETA: Mostly, I'm re-evaluating while drinking tonight. I plan to drink for several days and hopefully the re-evaluation process will be complete by then. I figured out my finances and I can stay afloat until the end of January at least, but that is if I start donating blood in September. If I start sperm donations, I'm golden until February. The possibilities...
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Posts: 371 (07/15/08 9:37 PM) ergodic theory Chicken restricted |
You can donate plasma. I would, but I'm not allowed.
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