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Getcha passports ready - the middle-aged dummies are going to the British Isles! Top 31 song countdown. (1 Viewer)
- Thread starter krista4
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Dr. Octopus
Footballguy
Even if they got knocked down, I bet they’d get up again.
Pip's Invitation
Footballguy
Something something drunken liveblog something something
Your thread, your rules is all I meant. Good deal, thanks. So, from now on I'll just put in the list (check page one of the thread) and submit it so I don't spoil the rest of the list here.
My "define 'blesses it'" was an attempt at a joke because I don't like the song all that much.
krista4
Footballguy
Someone PM'd me their guesses to the teasers above. I'd encourage anyone who wants to do that to do so, or even post them in the thread if you'd like. This go-'round I'll be keeping all of these teasers in a file, along with any guesses, and we can see how you did once we've completed the countdown.
Pip's Invitation
Footballguy
Can we guess who Voter #4 is?
New Binky the Doormat
Footballguy
I know they are a loner ...a rebel
rockaction
Footballguy
Hey, @krista4. It is easier if we send a spreadsheet like an Excel one? I assume we could make a Google Documents sheet and just send you the address to it. Because the rank ordering service exports to a .csv spreadsheet, which can then be saved as an .xls. That way, if you use the initial rank order list to list the song and then the band/artist, you can export it, and it's already ranked in spreadsheet form.
rockaction
Footballguy
You just Pee Wee'd your way into The Get Up Kids.
But they're American, so they're ineligible.
krista4
Footballguy
Wow, only seven lists into putting together the data, and we already have our first Menage FaLaLa Trois.* And it's at a high number of points. Could it turn out to be "The Boxer" of the British Isles list?**
*For the uninitiated, a Menage FaLaLa Trois is a song receiving exactly the same ranking from three different people.
**For those still uninitiated, "The Boxer" came seemingly out of nowhere to take the overall #2 ranking in the US countdown, due to having all its votes very high on people's lists.
*For the uninitiated, a Menage FaLaLa Trois is a song receiving exactly the same ranking from three different people.
**For those still uninitiated, "The Boxer" came seemingly out of nowhere to take the overall #2 ranking in the US countdown, due to having all its votes very high on people's lists.
Mister CIA
Footballguy
Good grief, what have I gotten myself into. There's no way I can sort my top 31 Oasis songs.
Yankee23Fan
Fair Tax!
My #1 is everyone else's? Nice.
Manster
Footballguy
I think it's Wannabe, by Spice Girls
krista4
Footballguy
It occurred to me that perhaps not everyone has read every post in my original Beatles countdown or in Zegras's follow-on countdown earlier this year. Later we'll get into the reasons that that is unforgiveable, but for now I wanted to make sure those who haven't know that we count the Abbey Road medley as one song for all of these purposes.
krista4
Footballguy
Oh! I'm sorry I missed this earlier. I will take the list in whatever form you have it. It's actually easier for me not to have a spreadsheet, but if someone sends that (and some people do), I can work with it without issue. Just takes a little more time. Thank you so much for asking!
rockaction
Footballguy
Then I'll copy and paste into a PM. Just thought it might be easier for ya. It's no skin off of my nose to do it the other way.
New Binky the Doormat
Footballguy
Manster
Footballguy
I feel like theres more of these. Floyd has at least one off the top of my head
krista4
Footballguy
There are. I've had a couple of PMs about others. If there's something you want and you're not sure, post here or PM me.
Mrs. Rannous
Footballguy
PM sent. Starting timer.
krista4
Footballguy
Sorry, think it took me six minutes this time. I had gone to the bathroom and then poured a glass of wine, which involved opening a new bottle.
Dr. Octopus
Footballguy
If you can’t put the playlist on shuffle it’s two different songs - 
Mrs. Rannous
Footballguy
Seven minutes. Most impressive.
krista4
Footballguy
I've put together nine lists of data, and I think the trends are interesting. But before I do the tenth, I need to take a break to vent. We used to do that with each other, right? Sorry for diversion, and those of you who read my posts, which is none of you, could just skip this.
Remember, if you read my posts in the last countdown, which you didn't, that I mentioned have something really ****ty happening in my life? Here's the shortest version I can muster, copying some of my own email to someone here several weeks ago:
I've been in a secondment to a company since October 2013, meaning I spend 100% of my time working for them, but they aren't my employer. I very purposefully got out of the rat race in 2013, so this is a good situation where I can add value without getting enmeshed in corporate ********, since I'm not actually an employee of the company, and I don’t have to have a “boss.”
I AM REALLY ****ING GOOD AT MY JOB.
It's the one thing I am completely confident in, that I know I do my job better than...well, anyone else I deal with.
Last quarter, this company reported way-below-expectations earnings. They have also had increased ownership from a famous investor. All of that combined to result in a desire for a big cut in the G&A line of their budget.
You see where I'm going?
On October 31 (Monday afternoon) I got a meeting request from the head of the group I work within, entitled "Quick check-in" and scheduled for 15 minutes on Tuesday morning. I haven't talked to him one-on-one in...five years? More? Weird. I got on the phone Tuesday morning, and he told me that they are cutting their "outside counsel" spend by 80% because deal flow is slowing. And despite my being told I was part of the "team" and being treated as a "teammate" for 9+ years, I was basically a line-item on a spreadsheet somewhere that said "guest teammate - outside counsel," and was too expensive to keep.
Nine years. Zero warning or idea it was coming. And, dare I say (and not a single person in the group would disagree), by far the most productive member of their "team." But I am also by far the most expensive person they have, in large part due to my actual employer’s cut on top of my salary.
We have a team meeting every other Tuesday, and that week it came about two hours after this news. He told me I could skip the meeting or join, and I said I'd be fine to attend as usual.
He broke the news to the team. Silence. Dead silence. He asked once or twice for any thoughts. Dead silence. Then, one of the paralegals spoke up and demanded a meeting with him right away. Then, more dead silence.
I've written this in such dramatic fashion that I think the rest is going to seem even more over-dramatized. But...it's been chaos. There was a revolt. Outrage. It seems an overstatement, but it isn't. Every single person on our team (12-13?) reached out in one form or another to protest. The business team that I work with did the same. Even people whom I work with more tangentially did this! I received so much support that it's amazing. The head of the group said that he had never seen anything like it in his 30 years of experience. I got the most amazing emails and phone calls. I heard from business people that I am, "far and away the best lawyer I've ever known." I heard from another lawyer in a different group that I am their "favorite lawyer of all time." I heard from five people directly that they cried over my departure. One of the paralegals told the dude in charge he should do away with xx lawyer instead. Another paralegal said he should do away with the same xx lawyer but also the first paralegal instead. Frankly they're right as I do both those people's jobs in addition to my own.
But wait...this is the thing that made me actually break down in tears and was so crazy. I learned that almost everyone on our team reached out and offered to take a PAY CUT to keep me. Seriously. Have you ever known something like that? I haven't, and the dude in charge hadn't either. He was blown away.
That all started November 1. My current status? Still in flux, except that they have been working on a package to offer me to come work directly for them, because the head of the group has been getting daily reminders from people that "he's an idiot" (he's told me this). First they had to negotiate with my actual employer, to which they owed a fee of 50% of my salary to "poach" me. Wha??? Insane. Apparently they've negotiated that down to 10%. Then they've had to go through all the corporate hurdles to put together the position description.
And then today? I got to "apply for" my job. It's all a formality, but they have to post the job officially for several days before they can make an offer to me. But I had to fill in the online form and crap like that so that HR has a record of my application.
I don't really like the idea of being in the corporate world officially again, but it would give me more security. And I like the idea of being 100% part of a team again. And managing people again, which was always the part I loved/hated most. We'll see what the package looks like. And in the midst of all this I was vowing to make a bunch of charitable contributions here that had me kinda bummed as I was simultaneously canceling my lawn guy and canceling a vacation just in case.
Anyway, I've been a lawyer for more years than I'd like to admit, and not once during that time have I ever had any inkling that I was less than spectacular at my job. This was the same - it is completely money and it appears they can afford me internally but not as external counsel - but it was just crushing to me to feel like I was in any sense "not worth it." I've poured my heart and soul and sweat and a few tears into this job as I always do. I know that's acknowledged, but it really shook me to my core for a while. And, not exaggerating, my hair started falling out. Holy ****.
TLDR - I could lose my job, and I need hats.
Remember, if you read my posts in the last countdown, which you didn't, that I mentioned have something really ****ty happening in my life? Here's the shortest version I can muster, copying some of my own email to someone here several weeks ago:
I've been in a secondment to a company since October 2013, meaning I spend 100% of my time working for them, but they aren't my employer. I very purposefully got out of the rat race in 2013, so this is a good situation where I can add value without getting enmeshed in corporate ********, since I'm not actually an employee of the company, and I don’t have to have a “boss.”
I AM REALLY ****ING GOOD AT MY JOB.
It's the one thing I am completely confident in, that I know I do my job better than...well, anyone else I deal with.
Last quarter, this company reported way-below-expectations earnings. They have also had increased ownership from a famous investor. All of that combined to result in a desire for a big cut in the G&A line of their budget.
You see where I'm going?
On October 31 (Monday afternoon) I got a meeting request from the head of the group I work within, entitled "Quick check-in" and scheduled for 15 minutes on Tuesday morning. I haven't talked to him one-on-one in...five years? More? Weird. I got on the phone Tuesday morning, and he told me that they are cutting their "outside counsel" spend by 80% because deal flow is slowing. And despite my being told I was part of the "team" and being treated as a "teammate" for 9+ years, I was basically a line-item on a spreadsheet somewhere that said "guest teammate - outside counsel," and was too expensive to keep.
Nine years. Zero warning or idea it was coming. And, dare I say (and not a single person in the group would disagree), by far the most productive member of their "team." But I am also by far the most expensive person they have, in large part due to my actual employer’s cut on top of my salary.
We have a team meeting every other Tuesday, and that week it came about two hours after this news. He told me I could skip the meeting or join, and I said I'd be fine to attend as usual.
He broke the news to the team. Silence. Dead silence. He asked once or twice for any thoughts. Dead silence. Then, one of the paralegals spoke up and demanded a meeting with him right away. Then, more dead silence.
I've written this in such dramatic fashion that I think the rest is going to seem even more over-dramatized. But...it's been chaos. There was a revolt. Outrage. It seems an overstatement, but it isn't. Every single person on our team (12-13?) reached out in one form or another to protest. The business team that I work with did the same. Even people whom I work with more tangentially did this! I received so much support that it's amazing. The head of the group said that he had never seen anything like it in his 30 years of experience. I got the most amazing emails and phone calls. I heard from business people that I am, "far and away the best lawyer I've ever known." I heard from another lawyer in a different group that I am their "favorite lawyer of all time." I heard from five people directly that they cried over my departure. One of the paralegals told the dude in charge he should do away with xx lawyer instead. Another paralegal said he should do away with the same xx lawyer but also the first paralegal instead. Frankly they're right as I do both those people's jobs in addition to my own.
But wait...this is the thing that made me actually break down in tears and was so crazy. I learned that almost everyone on our team reached out and offered to take a PAY CUT to keep me. Seriously. Have you ever known something like that? I haven't, and the dude in charge hadn't either. He was blown away.
That all started November 1. My current status? Still in flux, except that they have been working on a package to offer me to come work directly for them, because the head of the group has been getting daily reminders from people that "he's an idiot" (he's told me this). First they had to negotiate with my actual employer, to which they owed a fee of 50% of my salary to "poach" me. Wha??? Insane. Apparently they've negotiated that down to 10%. Then they've had to go through all the corporate hurdles to put together the position description.
And then today? I got to "apply for" my job. It's all a formality, but they have to post the job officially for several days before they can make an offer to me. But I had to fill in the online form and crap like that so that HR has a record of my application.
I don't really like the idea of being in the corporate world officially again, but it would give me more security. And I like the idea of being 100% part of a team again. And managing people again, which was always the part I loved/hated most. We'll see what the package looks like. And in the midst of all this I was vowing to make a bunch of charitable contributions here that had me kinda bummed as I was simultaneously canceling my lawn guy and canceling a vacation just in case.
Anyway, I've been a lawyer for more years than I'd like to admit, and not once during that time have I ever had any inkling that I was less than spectacular at my job. This was the same - it is completely money and it appears they can afford me internally but not as external counsel - but it was just crushing to me to feel like I was in any sense "not worth it." I've poured my heart and soul and sweat and a few tears into this job as I always do. I know that's acknowledged, but it really shook me to my core for a while. And, not exaggerating, my hair started falling out. Holy ****.
TLDR - I could lose my job, and I need hats.
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krista4
Footballguy
If you can’t put the playlist on shuffle it’s two different songs -
Luckily there is an Abbey Road medley one on Spotify! I don't know about the others.
DrIanMalcolm
Footballguy
G-d, this sounds rough. I hope you come through okay and sorry this is so ridiculous and awful.
shuke
Black Ice Skeptic
"Very smart" you say?
Dr. Octopus
Footballguy
Very cool.
Mrs. Rannous
Footballguy
Wow. You are spectacular at your job. You just need more confidence in that. Literally everyone just told you so. If you still need a hat, I'm pretty sure something suitably Texan can be found.
Just need a hat size.
Pip's Invitation
Footballguy
Wow, it's got to be hell to go through that. But:
This shows so much about how well you do your job and how valued you are. People going to bat for others to this extent is VERY rare. No matter what happens, never forget that you made a profound contribution to so many people's lives and jobs. Hope it all works out.
This shows so much about how well you do your job and how valued you are. People going to bat for others to this extent is VERY rare. No matter what happens, never forget that you made a profound contribution to so many people's lives and jobs. Hope it all works out.
krista4
Footballguy
Thank you. Sorry to pour all that out there (especially seemingly out of nowhere), but it's been weighing on me so much for nearly two months now. And I started tearing up again even just typing it.
I'm weird in many ways, one of which is that I hate burdening those close to me with any of my worries and angst. It's a lot easier to type it out to "strangers" on the internet, though many of you aren't strangers at all at this point.
When your hair starts falling out, you know something it wrong!
krista4
Footballguy
I have an embarrassingly large head for a woman. Probably keeping all that brain in, right?
krista4
Footballguy
Thank you. I've looked at this like seeing the best and worst of humanity all in the same experience. The worst, of course, being reminded that in corporate life, you might really just be a "line item." The best being that I've never had so much support, and some of it from unexpected sources. There are at least a couple of people who are known as very "difficult" and people don't like to work with, who have been calling periodically just to check in on me. While it makes me feel unvalued in some ways, there are ways like that in which I've learned of my value to people who otherwise would never have let on. There's also a slightly younger female lawyer who told me I've been her idol, which I had no clue of before this.
Thank you for trying to point out the positive as a reminder to me, too.
rockaction
Footballguy
You shouldn't be sorry at all. And if you're anything there like you are around here, I'm unsurprised that your co-workers reacted the way they did. In fact, I know you're floored, but it just seems right.
You're a brilliant person, k4. And you have a good demeanor and a good head about yourself. I hope they indeed value you appropriately.
krista4
Footballguy
Very.
New Binky the Doormat
Footballguy
wow krista - awesome story, what an amazing tribute to your skills and appreciation for not just your work - but clearly you as a person.
it's going to work out - congrats, that's really about the best business story I've ever heard.
it's going to work out - congrats, that's really about the best business story I've ever heard.
krista4
Footballguy
Thank you. You guys are making me cry. Or the whole situation. I'm doing OK for a while and it builds up and then I'm a little messy again. But I can't tell you how much I appreciate the kindness here.
New Binky the Doormat
Footballguy
also - pretty sure these guys don't quality, I can't find out where they're from ...
but thought I should run it by you.
but thought I should run it by you.
Zegras11
Footballguy
krista4
Footballguy
Yankee23Fan
Fair Tax!
Literally none of this ( their support of you) surprises me.I've put together nine lists of data, and I think the trends are interesting. But before I do the tenth, I need to take a break to vent. We used to do that with each other, right? Sorry for diversion, and those of you who read my posts, which is none of you, could just skip this.
Remember, if you read my posts in the last countdown, which you didn't, that I mentioned have something really ****ty happening in my life? Here's the shortest version I can muster, copying some of my own email to someone here several weeks ago:
I've been in a secondment to a company since October 2013, meaning I spend 100% of my time working for them, but they aren't my employer. I very purposefully got out of the rat race in 2013, so this is a good situation where I can add value without getting enmeshed in corporate ********, since I'm not actually an employee of the company, and I don’t have to have a “boss.”
I AM REALLY ****ING GOOD AT MY JOB.
It's the one thing I am completely confident in, that I know I do my job better than...well, anyone else I deal with.
Last quarter, this company reported way-below-expectations earnings. They have also had increased ownership from a famous investor. All of that combined to result in a desire for a big cut in the G&A line of their budget.
You see where I'm going?
On October 31 (Monday afternoon) I got a meeting request from the head of the group I work within, entitled "Quick check-in" and scheduled for 15 minutes on Tuesday morning. I haven't talked to him one-on-one in...five years? More? Weird. I got on the phone Tuesday morning, and he told me that they are cutting their "outside counsel" spend by 80% because deal flow is slowing. And despite my being told I was part of the "team" and being treated as a "teammate" for 9+ years, I was basically a line-item on a spreadsheet somewhere that said "guest teammate - outside counsel," and was too expensive to keep.
Nine years. Zero warning or idea it was coming. And, dare I say (and not a single person in the group would disagree), by far the most productive member of their "team." But I am also by far the most expensive person they have, in large part due to my actual employer’s cut on top of my salary.
We have a team meeting every other Tuesday, and that week it came about two hours after this news. He told me I could skip the meeting or join, and I said I'd be fine to attend as usual.
He broke the news to the team. Silence. Dead silence. He asked once or twice for any thoughts. Dead silence. Then, one of the paralegals spoke up and demanded a meeting with him right away. Then, more dead silence.
I've written this in such dramatic fashion that I think the rest is going to seem even more over-dramatized. But...it's been chaos. There was a revolt. Outrage. It seems an overstatement, but it isn't. Every single person on our team (12-13?) reached out in one form or another to protest. The business team that I work with did the same. Even people whom I work with more tangentially did this! I received so much support that it's amazing. The head of the group said that he had never seen anything like it in his 30 years of experience. I got the most amazing emails and phone calls. I heard from business people that I am, "far and away the best lawyer I've ever known." I heard from another lawyer in a different group that I am their "favorite lawyer of all time." I heard from five people directly that they cried over my departure. One of the paralegals told the dude in charge he should do away with xx lawyer instead. Another paralegal said he should do away with the same xx lawyer but also the first paralegal instead. Frankly they're right as I do both those people's jobs in addition to my own.
But wait...this is the thing that made me actually break down in tears and was so crazy. I learned that almost everyone on our team reached out and offered to take a PAY CUT to keep me. Seriously. Have you ever known something like that? I haven't, and the dude in charge hadn't either. He was blown away.
That all started November 1. My current status? Still in flux, except that they have been working on a package to offer me to come work directly for them, because the head of the group has been getting daily reminders from people that "he's an idiot" (he's told me this). First they had to negotiate with my actual employer, to which they owed a fee of 50% of my salary to "poach" me. Wha??? Insane. Apparently they've negotiated that down to 10%. Then they've had to go through all the corporate hurdles to put together the position description.
And then today? I got to "apply for" my job. It's all a formality, but they have to post the job officially for several days before they can make an offer to me. But I had to fill in the online form and crap like that so that HR has a record of my application.
I don't really like the idea of being in the corporate world officially again, but it would give me more security. And I like the idea of being 100% part of a team again. And managing people again, which was always the part I loved/hated most. We'll see what the package looks like. And in the midst of all this I was vowing to make a bunch of charitable contributions here that had me kinda bummed as I was simultaneously canceling my lawn guy and canceling a vacation just in case.
Anyway, I've been a lawyer for more years than I'd like to admit, and not once during that time have I ever had any inkling that I was less than spectacular at my job. This was the same - it is completely money and it appears they can afford me internally but not as external counsel - but it was just crushing to me to feel like I was in any sense "not worth it." I've poured my heart and soul and sweat and a few tears into this job as I always do. I know that's acknowledged, but it really shook me to my core for a while. And, not exaggerating, my hair started falling out. Holy ****.
TLDR - I could lose my job, and I need hats.
Mrs. Rannous
Footballguy
Nope.Stop saying nice things to me!
What I get out of all that is that you are all that and a bag of chips, and the corporate drones are massive idiots.
Zegras11
Footballguy
That was gut wrenching and awesome all in one post.
Just so cool they rallied around you.
Two more things I have in common with K4:
1) Hate the corporate world. Left it the late 80's after I earned to be the Sales Manager of a new SF office. Found out this gal was hired because President could pay her 35% less. I was gone in ten days.
2) We both have Shrek heads. (i'm not lying when I say my hat size is 8 3/8.)
Just so cool they rallied around you.
Two more things I have in common with K4:
1) Hate the corporate world. Left it the late 80's after I earned to be the Sales Manager of a new SF office. Found out this gal was hired because President could pay her 35% less. I was gone in ten days.
2) We both have Shrek heads. (i'm not lying when I say my hat size is 8 3/8.)
Mrs. Rannous
Footballguy
The Mannings look so charming in a big hat.
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Zegras11
Footballguy
Do you think it will fit?The Mannings look so charming in a bit hat.
higgins
Footballguy
Does this mean you’re not getting me a trinket from Amsterdam?
Manster
Footballguy
I thought you were a kindergarten teacher...I've put together nine lists of data, and I think the trends are interesting. But before I do the tenth, I need to take a break to vent. We used to do that with each other, right? Sorry for diversion, and those of you who read my posts, which is none of you, could just skip this.
Remember, if you read my posts in the last countdown, which you didn't, that I mentioned have something really ****ty happening in my life? Here's the shortest version I can muster, copying some of my own email to someone here several weeks ago:
I've been in a secondment to a company since October 2013, meaning I spend 100% of my time working for them, but they aren't my employer. I very purposefully got out of the rat race in 2013, so this is a good situation where I can add value without getting enmeshed in corporate ********, since I'm not actually an employee of the company, and I don’t have to have a “boss.”
I AM REALLY ****ING GOOD AT MY JOB.
It's the one thing I am completely confident in, that I know I do my job better than...well, anyone else I deal with.
Last quarter, this company reported way-below-expectations earnings. They have also had increased ownership from a famous investor. All of that combined to result in a desire for a big cut in the G&A line of their budget.
You see where I'm going?
On October 31 (Monday afternoon) I got a meeting request from the head of the group I work within, entitled "Quick check-in" and scheduled for 15 minutes on Tuesday morning. I haven't talked to him one-on-one in...five years? More? Weird. I got on the phone Tuesday morning, and he told me that they are cutting their "outside counsel" spend by 80% because deal flow is slowing. And despite my being told I was part of the "team" and being treated as a "teammate" for 9+ years, I was basically a line-item on a spreadsheet somewhere that said "guest teammate - outside counsel," and was too expensive to keep.
Nine years. Zero warning or idea it was coming. And, dare I say (and not a single person in the group would disagree), by far the most productive member of their "team." But I am also by far the most expensive person they have, in large part due to my actual employer’s cut on top of my salary.
We have a team meeting every other Tuesday, and that week it came about two hours after this news. He told me I could skip the meeting or join, and I said I'd be fine to attend as usual.
He broke the news to the team. Silence. Dead silence. He asked once or twice for any thoughts. Dead silence. Then, one of the paralegals spoke up and demanded a meeting with him right away. Then, more dead silence.
I've written this in such dramatic fashion that I think the rest is going to seem even more over-dramatized. But...it's been chaos. There was a revolt. Outrage. It seems an overstatement, but it isn't. Every single person on our team (12-13?) reached out in one form or another to protest. The business team that I work with did the same. Even people whom I work with more tangentially did this! I received so much support that it's amazing. The head of the group said that he had never seen anything like it in his 30 years of experience. I got the most amazing emails and phone calls. I heard from business people that I am, "far and away the best lawyer I've ever known." I heard from another lawyer in a different group that I am their "favorite lawyer of all time." I heard from five people directly that they cried over my departure. One of the paralegals told the dude in charge he should do away with xx lawyer instead. Another paralegal said he should do away with the same xx lawyer but also the first paralegal instead. Frankly they're right as I do both those people's jobs in addition to my own.
But wait...this is the thing that made me actually break down in tears and was so crazy. I learned that almost everyone on our team reached out and offered to take a PAY CUT to keep me. Seriously. Have you ever known something like that? I haven't, and the dude in charge hadn't either. He was blown away.
That all started November 1. My current status? Still in flux, except that they have been working on a package to offer me to come work directly for them, because the head of the group has been getting daily reminders from people that "he's an idiot" (he's told me this). First they had to negotiate with my actual employer, to which they owed a fee of 50% of my salary to "poach" me. Wha??? Insane. Apparently they've negotiated that down to 10%. Then they've had to go through all the corporate hurdles to put together the position description.
And then today? I got to "apply for" my job. It's all a formality, but they have to post the job officially for several days before they can make an offer to me. But I had to fill in the online form and crap like that so that HR has a record of my application.
I don't really like the idea of being in the corporate world officially again, but it would give me more security. And I like the idea of being 100% part of a team again. And managing people again, which was always the part I loved/hated most. We'll see what the package looks like. And in the midst of all this I was vowing to make a bunch of charitable contributions here that had me kinda bummed as I was simultaneously canceling my lawn guy and canceling a vacation just in case.
Anyway, I've been a lawyer for more years than I'd like to admit, and not once during that time have I ever had any inkling that I was less than spectacular at my job. This was the same - it is completely money and it appears they can afford me internally but not as external counsel - but it was just crushing to me to feel like I was in any sense "not worth it." I've poured my heart and soul and sweat and a few tears into this job as I always do. I know that's acknowledged, but it really shook me to my core for a while. And, not exaggerating, my hair started falling out. Holy ****.
TLDR - I could lose my job, and I need hats.
You have officially upped my opinion of lawyers a notch, or two.
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