Thanks, Erin and meara! I've got a CVS and a Walgreens close to the office. I just hope I can place it at the right spot on my back. It's right in the middle.
Tom, I'm glad you're getting something. Six months will help.
I'm supposed to deliver you to the Master now. There's this whole deal where I get to be immortal. Are you cool with that?
Xander ,'Lessons'
Natter 69: Practically names itself.
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Maria - Jan 31, 2012 8:45:08 am PST #19313 of 30001
Not so nice is that I'm about to ruin a Friday morning for a bunch of people because of a series of unfortunate events and an upset foreign government. - shrift
Consuela - Jan 31, 2012 8:45:22 am PST #19314 of 30001
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
Six month severance is really good, Tom! I think JZ has great advice: sign up with head-hunters and then give yourself two or three weeks to decompress and shoot a lot of pictures. With six months you have some breathing room to make some decisions.
Good luck with the interview, Jesse!
Me, I've learned that when they finally get around to re-hiring me, I'll be working for the manager I secretly refer to as Eeyore. Sigh. I like my current boss: he can't fix everything (and he really doesn't understand why I complain about My Nemesis), but he's creative and smart, willing to be a bit non-traditional in service of the organization. And Eeyore is, well. Eeyore. "It'll never work..."
And Eeyore has said straight out that he doesn't think I'm a good fit for his department, and he doesn't want to be responsible for the program I run. I agree with him about being a bad fit, and now I'm faced with potentially years of trying to run a program without my manager's support, while he tries to redirect me into doing the work he wants to do instead...
Argh.
Strix - Jan 31, 2012 8:46:20 am PST #19315 of 30001
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
OMG, I AM SURROUNDED BY INFIDELS! ::weeps::
HA! It is YOU, my friend, who are the aesthetic-lacking philistine!
msbelle - Jan 31, 2012 8:48:21 am PST #19316 of 30001
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
oh Tom! I am so sorry. 6 months is good though, and yes, take some walk around picture days, and double yes, get on with a few recruiters. You want I should ask my friends in IT who they use?
If you feel like a change of scenery, you know where there is a guest bed for you.
msbelle - Jan 31, 2012 8:49:14 am PST #19317 of 30001
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
Consuela, it really sounds that by staying there you are setting yourself for a miserable day to day situation.
Lee - Jan 31, 2012 8:49:30 am PST #19318 of 30001
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
Oh Tom, I am so sorry.
ita ! too.
SuziQ - Jan 31, 2012 8:54:52 am PST #19319 of 30001
Back tattoos of the mother is that you are absolutely right - Ame
Oh, yuck, Tom. They let go of a very good person.
I survived my call and the project manager is very happy with what I have pulled together for her. Once we have this new process up and running, she wants to show it off to others - bringing me more work. Woot? I'm just ready for a nap, then I can jump back into the next steps for this.
Sue - Jan 31, 2012 8:58:40 am PST #19320 of 30001
hip deep in pie
ita, I am so sorry for your loss.
tom, I am sorry about the layoff. I know you weren't happy there, so my hope is that this turns out to be the push to a better job that is more fulfilling with more compatible colleagues.
2 consecutive days of full day groupthink meetings means that this introvert is at her desk, eating tylenol.
P.M. Marc - Jan 31, 2012 8:59:23 am PST #19321 of 30001
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
HA! It is YOU, my friend, who are the aesthetic-lacking philistine!
Am not! [link] [link] [link] [link] [link]
amyth - Jan 31, 2012 9:00:40 am PST #19322 of 30001
And none of us deserving the cruelty or the grace -- Leonard Cohen
Tom, I'm so sorry! I hope that this leads to something awesome and better and just what you need, but I really wish it hadn't happened this way.
ita, I'm so sorry for your loss.