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.

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.)

Holy shit Steph!! Man, what a blow. I am so sorry!!

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.

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.

That sucks, Steph. I'm sorry.

Shit, Tep.

And it's making me edgy, because I was just telling The Boy yesterday that just about this time last year is when *I* got suddenly almost-fired. I'll feel better when we're past the 4th of July (it happened on the 3rd).

Although this isn't about me, and I know that. It's just sitting weird on my mind.

Hello, my lovelies.

Steph, so sorry about your mom getting fired.

seanie, you will be sorely missed at the f2f. Buffista snuggles are good for what ails ya.

La la la, not a good day for me. I see my shrink in 2.5 hrs, and it cannot happen fast enough. I can't even get it up to buy my f2f ticket, and, uh, that kind of needs to happen pronto.

Well, crappity, Teppy. That's really rotten for your mom.