Oi. Internet now shut off. Stealing neighbor's weak signal. Good chance I'll lose cable, and maybe even cell for a bit, at some point soon. Those I don't care about. Rent for July, my car payment and my other loan payment are the ones getting paid this month (knock wood). I'm hoping not to lose gas or electricity. July really can't get here fast enough.
I like the ruffles.
Kaylee ,'Shindig'
Spike's Bitches 44: It's about the rules having changed.
[NAFDA] Spike-centric discussion. Lusty, lewd (only occasionally crude), risqué (and frisqué), bawdy (Oh, lawdy!), flirty ('cuz we're purty), raunchy talk inside. Caveat lector.
Sean K - Jun 15, 2009 7:46:13 am PDT #12971 of 30000
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty
Sean K - Jun 15, 2009 7:46:39 am PDT #12972 of 30000
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty
Have a good flight, Drew!
Fred Pete - Jun 15, 2009 7:48:05 am PDT #12973 of 30000
Ann, that's a ferret.
Good luck, ND, Sean.
Laga - Jun 15, 2009 8:22:36 am PDT #12974 of 30000
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
Yay first class!
amych - Jun 15, 2009 8:23:51 am PDT #12975 of 30000
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
After yesterday, ND deserves first-class for life. And not just when he happens to be on an airplane.
Sean K - Jun 15, 2009 8:27:09 am PDT #12976 of 30000
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty
Oh, ND has deserved first class on everything for the rest of his life since way before yesterday. I'm glad he recently got it.
Steph L. - Jun 15, 2009 8:50:24 am PDT #12977 of 30000
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
Holy crap, you guys. My mom got fired this morning. They had all known that "restructuring" was imminent, but she's been there for 8 or 9 years, and the PTB have always loved her and thought highly of her mad skillz. (She does -- DID -- PR for my high school.)
At the worst, she was expecting to get a heavier workload, from taking on stuff that the other laid-off people were doing.
But no. The president, along with the school's lawyer, had a meeting with her, told her that they want to hire someone with marketing experience*, and go clean out your office. She's -- quite understandably -- utterly fucking shocked.
*(They want someone with "marketing experience" because their enrollment is WAY down. Well, *yeah.* The economy sucks rocks right now -- ALL the Catholic, private high schools in Cincy have low enrollment. Nobody can afford to pay $8,000-10,000 a YEAR to send their kids to school. So, in order to try to get more students, they want to market the school "better," which is a slap in the face to my mom, who had been doing a kick-ass job.)
Aims - Jun 15, 2009 8:55:53 am PDT #12978 of 30000
Shit's all sorts of different now.
Holy shit Steph!! Man, what a blow. I am so sorry!!
Toddson - Jun 15, 2009 8:59:37 am PDT #12979 of 30000
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
oh, Steph - so sorry. You might also want to point out to her that they're probably going to hire someone with less experience ... who'll cost less.
Steph L. - Jun 15, 2009 9:02:40 am PDT #12980 of 30000
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
You might also want to point out to her that they're probably going to hire someone with less experience ... who'll cost less.
I'm assuming that's going to be the case. (Not that she made *that* much in the first place -- working for a Catholic school does not yield one the type of salary working at an ad agency would.)
She's going to be 63 on Saturday (way to fire my mom 5 days before her birthday, assholes), and was thinking about retiring, but because the economy is so lousy, was going to keep working for a while. So maybe now she'll just retire. Don't know.