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Random Sharing >> job interviews and other urgent yet non-sequitor updates **Heidi, get in here!*
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Zardoz is in the Tardis wrote: "I still love the birds."What's not to love about birds?
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So, I got the job! I'm really excited, but I'm saving the celebrations until I know my Grandma's surgery went well today.
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Thanks everyone! I'm putting in my two weeks today, but the way this day is shaping up it's very, very hard not to just walk out. I was treated to a lovely lecture this morning about making sure there is enough creamer in the office because they ran out yesterday, when my boss knows full well I left early yesterday because my grandmother was in the hospital. He's such an asshole and he doesn't really deserve the notice.
He may not deserve the notice, however, you probably deserve to use the job as a reference. Do it for your own good and think of it that way.BTW, congratulations. I too cannot wait to leave my current employment.
Cortney wrote: "He may not deserve the notice, however, you probably deserve to use the job as a reference. Do it for your own good and think of it that way.BTW, congratulations. I too cannot wait to leave my ..."
I'm trying to tell myself that, Cortney. Argh, it's just really hard. I'm not confrontational, even a little, but it would still be really nice to tell him exactly what I think of him and his shitty, backwards business.
Yay, Amber! Don't let those fools bring you down, you're outta there soon enough!!
Woo! I did it, and he took it like a champ, even offered to give me a recommendation. More than I was expecting, that's for sure.
Now it's just a matter of counting down the days to freedom....
For some other random sharing:How beautiful is it to see a book being born!
http://laughingsquid.com/birth-of-a-b...
Emily wrote: "For some other random sharing:How beautiful is it to see a book being born!
http://laughingsquid.com/birth-of-a-b..."
*sniffle* So beautiful and so endangered.
Thanks for the congratulations, everyone. I keep missing updates on the threads lately. I really wish they would fix whatever is going on on GR.
I was unemployed for nine months back in the spring, summer, and fall of 1983 and while I had a blast due to the fact that I had absolutely zero cares in the world, I cringe when I think back to those days in the MESC (Michigan Employment Security Commission) office/logjam of human languish where I had to go to pick up my unemployment checks. I'd advise anyone to do EVERYTHING within your power to hang on to your job. Heap your employer with phony plaudits, offer to babysit his kids, gulp amphetamines and perform the work load of ten mules. If you have to, get down and smooch his dusty wingtips anew with sheen. In your spare time go to church, pray to Allah, pray to Buddha, plead with Zeus, beg of Jah, implore the graces of whatever deity landed the '69 Mets a pennant to keep your butt in the fold and out of places like the MESC.
If you're lucky enough to live in a state that mails out unemployment checks, disregard everything I just said.
If you're lucky enough to live in a state that mails out unemployment checks, disregard everything I just said.
Washington state mailed them to me back in the fall of 1993, but I did have to go to the drop-box outside the office every couple of weeks to turn in the form that proved I was going to job interviews.
Clark wrote: "I was unemployed for nine months back in the spring, summer, and fall of 1983 and while I had a blast due to the fact that I had absolutely zero cares in the world, I cringe when I think back to th..."I did babysit my employers' kids. Several times. For free. Did I mention I'm really happy to be leaving this job?
Amber ~Geektastic~ wrote: "Clark wrote: "I was unemployed for nine months back in the spring, summer, and fall of 1983 and while I had a blast due to the fact that I had absolutely zero cares in the world, I cringe when I th..."
Good on you, Amber!
Good on you, Amber!
Clark wrote: "I was unemployed for nine months back in the spring, summer, and fall of 1983 and while I had a blast due to the fact that I had absolutely zero cares in the world, I cringe when I think back to th..."Dude, it's been over two years and I"m still job-hunting. Fortunately, while I was drawing unemployment, I could get my checks via direct deposit.
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I saw a headline the other day that Social Security is going to stop mailing checks. I felt a burst of irritation and didn't click on it. (Old people! Gotta keep it simple for them!)
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I know. I stand behind them in line as they write checks at the store.
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Jammies wrote: "Fortunately, while I was drawing unemployment, I could get my checks via direct deposit."
Then you were lucky in that regard. As if waiting in line at MESC wasn't bad enough, after a while they instituted a new requirement whereby you were expected to make the rounds looking for an alternative occupation and take along four sets of completed job applications when you went to pick up your biweekly check. So I went along with it. On a given week, I may have "applied" for work at a taxidermy shop, a porno theater, a limousine service, and a funeral home. It was a real grin.
Then you were lucky in that regard. As if waiting in line at MESC wasn't bad enough, after a while they instituted a new requirement whereby you were expected to make the rounds looking for an alternative occupation and take along four sets of completed job applications when you went to pick up your biweekly check. So I went along with it. On a given week, I may have "applied" for work at a taxidermy shop, a porno theater, a limousine service, and a funeral home. It was a real grin.
If I run out of ideas for my mandated job applications I will turn to you for advice, Clark.
janine wrote: "If I run out of ideas for my mandated job applications I will turn to you for advice, Clark."
That's why I'm here, Janine.
That's why I'm here, Janine.
Clark wrote: "Jammies wrote: "Fortunately, while I was drawing unemployment, I could get my checks via direct deposit."Then you were lucky in that regard. As if waiting in line at MESC wasn't bad enough, after a while they instituted a new requirement whereby you were expected to make the rounds looking for an alternative occupation and take along four sets of completed job applications when you went to pick up your biweekly check. So I went along with it. On a given week, I may have "applied" for work at a taxidermy shop, a porno theater, a limousine service, and a funeral home. It was a real grin."
And they all hired you, right?
Félix wrote: "Iowa. Come to Iowa."
Or Ohio--I still use checks at my grocery store.
Jammies wrote: "Or Ohio--I still use checks at my grocery store."Wow, how old are you?
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Divide 87 by 4.3.
I love those birds. I was in southern New Mexico last week, exploring a ghost town where a relative was killed in 1907, and saw a roadrunner -- first one I've seen since I lived in Texas.