So I'm coordinating a collection for my friends who got robbed. Can't replace all the work that was on the computers, nor their sense of security. But we can at least do this much. And I don't know if it would have occurred to me without having witnessed and been a part of such similar efforts on this board. So thank you.
I'm hoping, given their large circle of friends, that we can raise enough to at least replace both of the personal laptops. I'd like to reach out to their families as well, if for no other reason than to let them know that we've got their kids' back out here.
Slide show of Brooklyn in 1974:
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Manhattan in the 1940s: [link]
Holy crap, y'all. I think I may have a new job, just as utterly randomly as you could possibly imagine. Late this morning, Beloved!Ex-Boss happened to run into the senior analyst in a tiny but high-intensity division; he asked her how she was doing, and she laughed hollowly and said, "We can't find an analyst who can edit and write, and we're dying without one." He said, "I think I have someone for you. Give me five minutes." He called me, I made faint geebling noises, she called me, I met with her this afternoon, and she's submitting all the paperwork to HR tomorrow.
Ho-lee crap. All those years of flailing and begging and pleading and going nuts trying to get out of my admin dead end, and this thing just flops into my lap out of nowhere. Beloved!Ex-Boss is an angel, I tell you what. A grumpy, balding angel.
Rock on like a rocking thing, JZ! It's so hard to do in such structured environments, but I am not surprised that your awesomeness has gotten you there.
May it all turn out golden! And huzzahs for ex-boss!
Huzzah, JZ! That's awesome! Woot!
The key thing is that within the labyrinthine UC system, she'd finally be promoted up to Analyst status which is a whole 'nother pay grade. Something she should have gotten five or six years ago. But it's a whole new exciting salary world from here.
