GM's thread about nothing (43 Viewers)

[Officer Pete Malloy]

Drunk baby meme ever catch on here?

I laughed way more than I should have at this.

one more

 

[Officer Pete Malloy]

Tigers are funny.

Subtle

Stupid funny

 

[Notorious T.R.E.]

Tigers are funny.

Subtle

Stupid funny

I THINK I JUST SHOT MARVIN IN THE FACE!

 

[Mr.Pack]

::FF chat activated::

I have a trade on the table which I think I might go for is this:

I get RGIII and LeSean McCoy (Yes I know he's hurt) But I can keep RGIII next year for only $20 ($350 cap)

I trade A-Rod and Jordy Nelson.

I am in the playoffs with 2 weeks to go, 3rd leading scoring team (Our last spot for the playoffs is the highest scoring team not in the playoffs, so that would be my second way in)

RGIII faces BAL, CLE and PHIL the 3 weeks of the playoffs while A-Rod faces DET, CHI, TEN

I think I'm going to pull the trigger, but not super sure

12 Teamer - No ppr - 6pts per TD Pass

Thoughts?

 

[St. Louis Bob]

LCD class action

I heard about this on the radio a couple of weeks ago but thought it was only for Missouri. I think I have $150 coming. Thanks lawyerbirds!!!

No Receipts or document required Not in Ohio

How do I know this isn't just a scam to get me to post all my info?

What Tre said. Plus the commercials here are done by the Governor of Missouri.

 

[Good Posting Judge]

Glass-Steagall?

 

[St. Louis Bob]

Glass-Steagall?

:mansion:

 

[St. Louis Bob]

I was completely outwitted or something recently. Mrs. SLB tells me that the next Boy Scout camping trip is three nights. Three nights. As I immediately protest because that is insanity for an 8 year old, she says not to worry since parents aren't invited. Now I have a BIG problem with this. Tell her there is NFW my 8 year old son is going on a three night trip with these guys unsupervised.

Today she told me that she talked with them and they have no problem with me going. FML

 

[Good Posting Judge]

I was completely outwitted or something recently. Mrs. SLB tells me that the next Boy Scout camping trip is three nights. Three nights. As I immediately protest because that is insanity for an 8 year old, she says not to worry since parents aren't invited. Now I have a BIG problem with this. Tell her there is NFW my 8 year old son is going on a three night trip with these guys unsupervised.Today she told me that she talked with them and they have no problem with me going. FML

Jesus. I suppose a distant relative in Nigeria is also sending you $20 million next month?

 

[St. Louis Bob]

I was completely outwitted or something recently. Mrs. SLB tells me that the next Boy Scout camping trip is three nights. Three nights. As I immediately protest because that is insanity for an 8 year old, she says not to worry since parents aren't invited. Now I have a BIG problem with this. Tell her there is NFW my 8 year old son is going on a three night trip with these guys unsupervised.Today she told me that she talked with them and they have no problem with me going. FML

Jesus. I suppose a distant relative in Nigeria is also sending you $20 million next month?

I'm slipping but not done yet. I've got plenty of time to sabotage this. Boy Scouts is like a freaking cult. Sorry Stu.

 

[belljr]

I was completely outwitted or something recently. Mrs. SLB tells me that the next Boy Scout camping trip is three nights. Three nights. As I immediately protest because that is insanity for an 8 year old, she says not to worry since parents aren't invited. Now I have a BIG problem with this. Tell her there is NFW my 8 year old son is going on a three night trip with these guys unsupervised.

Today she told me that she talked with them and they have no problem with me going. FML

Jesus. I suppose a distant relative in Nigeria is also sending you $20 million next month?

I'm slipping but not done yet. I've got plenty of time to sabotage this. Boy Scouts is like a freaking cult. Sorry Stu.

TELL ME I'M WRONG!!

 

[St. Louis Bob]

I was completely outwitted or something recently. Mrs. SLB tells me that the next Boy Scout camping trip is three nights. Three nights. As I immediately protest because that is insanity for an 8 year old, she says not to worry since parents aren't invited. Now I have a BIG problem with this. Tell her there is NFW my 8 year old son is going on a three night trip with these guys unsupervised.

Today she told me that she talked with them and they have no problem with me going. FML

Jesus. I suppose a distant relative in Nigeria is also sending you $20 million next month?

I'm slipping but not done yet. I've got plenty of time to sabotage this. Boy Scouts is like a freaking cult. Sorry Stu.

You're wrong.

 

[belljr]

I was completely outwitted or something recently. Mrs. SLB tells me that the next Boy Scout camping trip is three nights. Three nights. As I immediately protest because that is insanity for an 8 year old, she says not to worry since parents aren't invited. Now I have a BIG problem with this. Tell her there is NFW my 8 year old son is going on a three night trip with these guys unsupervised.

Today she told me that she talked with them and they have no problem with me going. FML

Jesus. I suppose a distant relative in Nigeria is also sending you $20 million next month?

I'm slipping but not done yet. I've got plenty of time to sabotage this. Boy Scouts is like a freaking cult. Sorry Stu.

 

[St. Louis Bob]

I was completely outwitted or something recently. Mrs. SLB tells me that the next Boy Scout camping trip is three nights. Three nights. As I immediately protest because that is insanity for an 8 year old, she says not to worry since parents aren't invited. Now I have a BIG problem with this. Tell her there is NFW my 8 year old son is going on a three night trip with these guys unsupervised.

Today she told me that she talked with them and they have no problem with me going. FML

Jesus. I suppose a distant relative in Nigeria is also sending you $20 million next month?

I'm slipping but not done yet. I've got plenty of time to sabotage this. Boy Scouts is like a freaking cult. Sorry Stu.

I don't see Fred slamming vodka.

 

[belljr]

I was completely outwitted or something recently. Mrs. SLB tells me that the next Boy Scout camping trip is three nights. Three nights. As I immediately protest because that is insanity for an 8 year old, she says not to worry since parents aren't invited. Now I have a BIG problem with this. Tell her there is NFW my 8 year old son is going on a three night trip with these guys unsupervised.

Today she told me that she talked with them and they have no problem with me going. FML

Jesus. I suppose a distant relative in Nigeria is also sending you $20 million next month?

I'm slipping but not done yet. I've got plenty of time to sabotage this. Boy Scouts is like a freaking cult. Sorry Stu.

 

[St. Louis Bob]

My CC got jacked too. Got a call from Chase, 5, $20 charges went through iTunes tonight. Jerkoffs.

 

[St. Louis Bob]

I was completely outwitted or something recently. Mrs. SLB tells me that the next Boy Scout camping trip is three nights. Three nights. As I immediately protest because that is insanity for an 8 year old, she says not to worry since parents aren't invited. Now I have a BIG problem with this. Tell her there is NFW my 8 year old son is going on a three night trip with these guys unsupervised.

Today she told me that she talked with them and they have no problem with me going. FML

Jesus. I suppose a distant relative in Nigeria is also sending you $20 million next month?

I'm slipping but not done yet. I've got plenty of time to sabotage this. Boy Scouts is like a freaking cult. Sorry Stu.

Love those crazy bastards. Still angry what they did to Bugs too.

 

[Good Posting Judge]

I was completely outwitted or something recently. Mrs. SLB tells me that the next Boy Scout camping trip is three nights. Three nights. As I immediately protest because that is insanity for an 8 year old, she says not to worry since parents aren't invited. Now I have a BIG problem with this. Tell her there is NFW my 8 year old son is going on a three night trip with these guys unsupervised.Today she told me that she talked with them and they have no problem with me going. FML

Jesus. I suppose a distant relative in Nigeria is also sending you $20 million next month?

I'm slipping but not done yet. I've got plenty of time to sabotage this. Boy Scouts is like a freaking cult. Sorry Stu.

I made it up thru exactly one week of Boy Scouts. Then it just got kind of creepy and weird. And the Jesus stuff is also creepy and weird. Sorry Stu.

 

[belljr]

I was completely outwitted or something recently. Mrs. SLB tells me that the next Boy Scout camping trip is three nights. Three nights. As I immediately protest because that is insanity for an 8 year old, she says not to worry since parents aren't invited. Now I have a BIG problem with this. Tell her there is NFW my 8 year old son is going on a three night trip with these guys unsupervised.

Today she told me that she talked with them and they have no problem with me going. FML

Jesus. I suppose a distant relative in Nigeria is also sending you $20 million next month?

I'm slipping but not done yet. I've got plenty of time to sabotage this. Boy Scouts is like a freaking cult. Sorry Stu.

 

[Guster]

It's a little after 9, my parents have been sleeping and snoring one the couch since I put my daughter to bed a half ago. I just woke them up. I'm a ####

 

[Officer Pete Malloy]

I was completely outwitted or something recently. Mrs. SLB tells me that the next Boy Scout camping trip is three nights. Three nights. As I immediately protest because that is insanity for an 8 year old, she says not to worry since parents aren't invited. Now I have a BIG problem with this. Tell her there is NFW my 8 year old son is going on a three night trip with these guys unsupervised.Today she told me that she talked with them and they have no problem with me going. FML

Jesus. I suppose a distant relative in Nigeria is also sending you $20 million next month?

I'm slipping but not done yet. I've got plenty of time to sabotage this. Boy Scouts is like a freaking cult. Sorry Stu.

I made it up thru exactly one week of Boy Scouts. Then it just got kind of creepy and weird. And the Jesus stuff is also creepy and weird. Sorry Stu.

My older kid did about a year's worth of Cub Scouts. The only interesting thing we did was Pinewood Derby. Fortunately the troop leader dude wasn't very gung-ho. By the next year my kid lost interest. Thank god.

 

[Britney Spears]

I've found two great television shows this week, neither one are Duck Dynasty, which is putrid.

1) The Men Who Built America - Stumbled upon this last night. Will DVR and make my sons watch this. Only got through 1.5 episodes, but cannot wait to watch them all. Simply fascinating. The amount of power Rockefeller, Morgan and Carnegie had back then is staggering. They bought a presidential election. Tanner, you should stop teaching for a week and make your kids watch this...then play on the internet all day long. Oh, wait...

2) Dangerous Grounds - I thought of Britney Spears when I saw this the other night. Fascinating quest of a man determined to find the most incredible coffee on the planet and willing to risk anything to get it. The only downside is watching him brew up the coffee at the end...I wanted to jump through the screen to get a sip. I watched this at 11pm and had the shakes for coffee despite having a full glass of red wine on my person. Terrific show.

That is all.

I'm not really into those super exotic coffees. We have some rare Costa Rica right now that is $6 for a 12 oz cup and I haven't tried it cause I'm cheap.

 

[mr. furley]

Boy Scouts is like a freaking cult. Sorry Stu.

Disco or Pitt?

 

[eoMMan]

GM, you'll notice I finished tied for last this week. However a GMTAN did win the week although EOMMAN doesn't post much anymore. :(Bentley, you should consider refinancing. 4.625% is high these days.K4, I'll let you know when my cigars arrive.

Thanks, Bob. Crazy that 20 people went 13-1 and all tied for first. I assume you do payouts all at once after the season is done?:flex:

 

[Britney Spears]

are there ANY happily married FBGs? jesus

I am.

Me too.

 

[Officer Pete Malloy]

are there ANY happily married FBGs? jesus

I am.

Me too.

Me three I guess.

 

[krista4]

My second cousin's ex husband kidnapped their son earlier today and the assumption in the family is that he has left the country, very likely never to be seen again.

My friend's dad has been fighting cancer since June, and recently has taken a huge turn for the worse. Guy has cancer every-*******-where. My friend is still convinced his dad is going to be ok. Utter denial. I hope he comes to terms with it soon or it's going to wreck him. Said friend also has quite the extensive history with hard drugs, has really cleaned up his life over the last few years, and I'm worried that his dad kicking off faster than he's ready for could send things in a bad direction. Don't really know how I can help - I don't want to say "look, your dad is as good as dead" but I want to do something.

:( So sorry to hear GB.

I don't remember if I already sent thoprowishes on this, but it wouldn't hurt to send them twice.

GM, you'll notice I finished tied for last this week. However a GMTAN did win the week although EOMMAN doesn't post much anymore. :(

Bentley, you should consider refinancing. 4.625% is high these days.

K4, I'll let you know when my cigars arrive.

Pretty sure I put out a general call to see who wanted them. If I missed you on that, I'll be back down there in January.

GM, you'll notice I finished tied for last this week. However a GMTAN did win the week although EOMMAN doesn't post much anymore. :(

Bentley, you should consider refinancing. 4.625% is high these days.

K4, I'll let you know when my cigars arrive.

See above.

Drunk baby meme ever catch on here?

Tigers are funny.

I have no idea why I find this so funny it almost makes me vomit.

Woke up this morning with a stye in my left eye that has it completely swollen shut. Went ahead and went into the office.

Co-worker keeps asking me what I did to my eye. Everytime I would answer something different: "bar fight", "bee sting", "MMA training", "domestic dispute".

Just now walking past his desk, he is on the phone, but hits mute and says "Hey, what happen to your eye?" I pantomimed doing a shake weight in front of my face, then getting hit in the face with a fire hose. He laughed so hard he hung up on his customer and knocked his cup of water into his keyboard.

I think I'm going home. I can't do anything more satisfying than that today.

Awesome.

 

[krista4]

LCD class action

I heard about this on the radio a couple of weeks ago but thought it was only for Missouri. I think I have $150 coming. Thanks lawyerbirds!!!

No Receipts or document required Not in Ohio

How do I know this isn't just a scam to get me to post all my info?

This might have been a joke, but this thing is completely legit. The head litigator in my company's been touting this for a while.

 

[Notorious T.R.E.]

are there ANY happily married FBGs? jesus

I am.

Me too.

Me three I guess.

Let's not jinx anything.

 

[Notorious T.R.E.]

As I recall it, SLB and I were having CIGARCHAT™ and GM, that beautiful translucent *******, swooped in for the Nicaraguan beauties.

 

[General Malaise]

My CC got jacked too. Got a call from Chase, 5, $20 charges went through iTunes tonight. Jerkoffs.

You, uh...check Cal's iPod for new tunes just to make sure?

 

[General Malaise]

As I recall it, SLB and I were having CIGARCHAT™ and GM, that beautiful translucent *******, swooped in for the Nicaraguan beauties.

HUZZZZAH!!! Thinking about firing one of those bad boys up tonight. No reason. Other than it's Tuesday AND I CAN!!!!

 

[General Malaise]

I was completely outwitted or something recently. Mrs. SLB tells me that the next Boy Scout camping trip is three nights. Three nights. As I immediately protest because that is insanity for an 8 year old, she says not to worry since parents aren't invited. Now I have a BIG problem with this. Tell her there is NFW my 8 year old son is going on a three night trip with these guys unsupervised.Today she told me that she talked with them and they have no problem with me going. FML

Jesus. I suppose a distant relative in Nigeria is also sending you $20 million next month?

I'm slipping but not done yet. I've got plenty of time to sabotage this. Boy Scouts is like a freaking cult. Sorry Stu.

I made it up thru exactly one week of Boy Scouts. Then it just got kind of creepy and weird. And the Jesus stuff is also creepy and weird. Sorry Stu.

I made it two full years, but failed the "1st Class" designation because I sucked at knots. I also got majorly busted for stealing soft drinks from the church soda machine by reaching my skinny arms up and taking what I wanted. I made a mistake of showing this wondrous skill to a few other scouts. They got busted a week later. They ratted me out. Turds. I tried to quit a few times, but my mom wouldn't let me. So when she dropped me off for meetings, I just waited until she drove off, hung out at 7-11 and then came back. They finally called asking where I was. Thankfully, my dad hated it more than I did, so we basically quit together. My boys haven't even hinted at this, thankfully. But up here in godless Oregon, anti-gay stances don't fly so well.

 

[Officer Pete Malloy]

LCD class action

I heard about this on the radio a couple of weeks ago but thought it was only for Missouri. I think I have $150 coming. Thanks lawyerbirds!!!

No Receipts or document required Not in Ohio

How do I know this isn't just a scam to get me to post all my info?

This might have been a joke, but this thing is completely legit. The head litigator in my company's been touting this for a while.

SOLD

 

[Mr. Pickles]

I was completely outwitted or something recently. Mrs. SLB tells me that the next Boy Scout camping trip is three nights. Three nights. As I immediately protest because that is insanity for an 8 year old, she says not to worry since parents aren't invited. Now I have a BIG problem with this. Tell her there is NFW my 8 year old son is going on a three night trip with these guys unsupervised.Today she told me that she talked with them and they have no problem with me going. FML

Nf7+

 

[St. Louis Bob]

Officer Pete, no way I get that lucky. Plus they've sucked my wife in too.

GM, you'll notice I finished tied for last this week. However a GMTAN did win the week although EOMMAN doesn't post much anymore. :(Bentley, you should consider refinancing. 4.625% is high these days.K4, I'll let you know when my cigars arrive.

Thanks, Bob. Crazy that 20 people went 13-1 and all tied for first. I assume you do payouts all at once after the season is done?:flex:

Nope, put the check in the mail today.

As I recall it, SLB and I were having CIGARCHAT™ and GM, that beautiful translucent *******, swooped in for the Nicaraguan beauties.

This is accurate.

My CC got jacked too. Got a call from Chase, 5, $20 charges went through iTunes tonight. Jerkoffs.

You, uh...check Cal's iPod for new tunes just to make sure?

First thing I did. Plus his iPod is MIA somewhere in the house.

 

[St. Louis Bob]

LCD class action I heard about this on the radio a couple of weeks ago but thought it was only for Missouri. I think I have $150 coming. Thanks lawyerbirds!!!

No Receipts or document required Not in Ohio

How do I know this isn't just a scam to get me to post all my info?

This might have been a joke, but this thing is completely legit. The head litigator in my company's been touting this for a while.

SOLD

<_<

I was completely outwitted or something recently. Mrs. SLB tells me that the next Boy Scout camping trip is three nights. Three nights. As I immediately protest because that is insanity for an 8 year old, she says not to worry since parents aren't invited. Now I have a BIG problem with this. Tell her there is NFW my 8 year old son is going on a three night trip with these guys unsupervised.Today she told me that she talked with them and they have no problem with me going. FML

Nf7+

:shuked:

 

[General Malaise]

I've found two great television shows this week, neither one are Duck Dynasty, which is putrid.

1) The Men Who Built America - Stumbled upon this last night. Will DVR and make my sons watch this. Only got through 1.5 episodes, but cannot wait to watch them all. Simply fascinating. The amount of power Rockefeller, Morgan and Carnegie had back then is staggering. They bought a presidential election. Tanner, you should stop teaching for a week and make your kids watch this...then play on the internet all day long. Oh, wait...

2) Dangerous Grounds - I thought of Britney Spears when I saw this the other night. Fascinating quest of a man determined to find the most incredible coffee on the planet and willing to risk anything to get it. The only downside is watching him brew up the coffee at the end...I wanted to jump through the screen to get a sip. I watched this at 11pm and had the shakes for coffee despite having a full glass of red wine on my person. Terrific show.

That is all.

I'm not really into those super exotic coffees. We have some rare Costa Rica right now that is $6 for a 12 oz cup and I haven't tried it cause I'm cheap.

oh, well......SORRRRRRYYYYYY for trying to find something of common interest we could talk about. Hmph.

 

[Officer Pete Malloy]

LCD class action I heard about this on the radio a couple of weeks ago but thought it was only for Missouri. I think I have $150 coming. Thanks lawyerbirds!!!

No Receipts or document required Not in Ohio

How do I know this isn't just a scam to get me to post all my info?

This might have been a joke, but this thing is completely legit. The head litigator in my company's been touting this for a while.

SOLD

<_<

She's a lawyer, Bob.

 

[Tiger Fan]

Mrs. TF and I both have off tomorrow and the boys have day care. Can't freaking wait. After we bring them in the morning, we made an agreement to not get out of bed until 1:00. I don't even care about sex...I just want to be able to watch TV for 5 hours straight without interruption

 

[krista4]

LCD class action I heard about this on the radio a couple of weeks ago but thought it was only for Missouri. I think I have $150 coming. Thanks lawyerbirds!!!

No Receipts or document required Not in Ohio

How do I know this isn't just a scam to get me to post all my info?

This might have been a joke, but this thing is completely legit. The head litigator in my company's been touting this for a while.

SOLD

<_<

She's a lawyer, Bob.

Not sure I get this whole thing.

 

[Notorious T.R.E.]

LCD class action I heard about this on the radio a couple of weeks ago but thought it was only for Missouri. I think I have $150 coming. Thanks lawyerbirds!!!

No Receipts or document required Not in Ohio

How do I know this isn't just a scam to get me to post all my info?

This might have been a joke, but this thing is completely legit. The head litigator in my company's been touting this for a while.

SOLD

<_<

She's a lawyer, Bob.

I jumped in right away, Bob. Slap it?

 

[St. Louis Bob]

I was completely outwitted or something recently. Mrs. SLB tells me that the next Boy Scout camping trip is three nights. Three nights. As I immediately protest because that is insanity for an 8 year old, she says not to worry since parents aren't invited. Now I have a BIG problem with this. Tell her there is NFW my 8 year old son is going on a three night trip with these guys unsupervised.Today she told me that she talked with them and they have no problem with me going. FML

Jesus. I suppose a distant relative in Nigeria is also sending you $20 million next month?

I'm slipping but not done yet. I've got plenty of time to sabotage this. Boy Scouts is like a freaking cult. Sorry Stu.

I made it up thru exactly one week of Boy Scouts. Then it just got kind of creepy and weird. And the Jesus stuff is also creepy and weird. Sorry Stu.

I made it two full years, but failed the "1st Class" designation because I sucked at knots. I also got majorly busted for stealing soft drinks from the church soda machine by reaching my skinny arms up and taking what I wanted. I made a mistake of showing this wondrous skill to a few other scouts. They got busted a week later. They ratted me out. Turds. I tried to quit a few times, but my mom wouldn't let me. So when she dropped me off for meetings, I just waited until she drove off, hung out at 7-11 and then came back. They finally called asking where I was. Thankfully, my dad hated it more than I did, so we basically quit together. My boys haven't even hinted at this, thankfully. But up here in godless Oregon, anti-gay stances don't fly so well.

I was hoping the anti-gay thing would make my wife pissed like she was at ChikFilA but no. She must be the only irrational women in the world.

 

[St. Louis Bob]

LCD class action I heard about this on the radio a couple of weeks ago but thought it was only for Missouri. I think I have $150 coming. Thanks lawyerbirds!!!

No Receipts or document required Not in Ohio

How do I know this isn't just a scam to get me to post all my info?

This might have been a joke, but this thing is completely legit. The head litigator in my company's been touting this for a while.

SOLD

<_<

She's a lawyer, Bob.

Not sure I get this whole thing.

Apparently he only trusts leaders of third world nations that also happens to be a lawyer.Tre<

 

[Officer Pete Malloy]

LCD class action I heard about this on the radio a couple of weeks ago but thought it was only for Missouri. I think I have $150 coming. Thanks lawyerbirds!!!

No Receipts or document required Not in Ohio

How do I know this isn't just a scam to get me to post all my info?

This might have been a joke, but this thing is completely legit. The head litigator in my company's been touting this for a while.

SOLD

<_<

She's a lawyer, Bob.

Not sure I get this whole thing.

Bob recommended signing up for the LCD suit. I questioned whether it was legit. You confirmed that it was and since you're a fancy, downtown lawyer I signed up. Bob is miffed that I didn't take his word for it. Conclusion? I'm a jerk.

 

[krista4]

I realize I'm unlikely to get any sympathy for this.

I'm so mentally, emotionally, and physically at the end of my rope with my job that Mr. krista and I discussed last night the idea that I might quit, giving a month's notice or some such, without looking for a new job first. This would entail giving up large amount of $$$ to which I'd be entitled in March. I had the Amazon interviews but otherwise haven't really pursued anything, but I'm not sure I can make it much longer.

I've never worked in a place as dysfunctional, with so many people who are completely unable to do their jobs and spend about 99% of their time attempting to cover their asses instead. Everything I do is 1000 times more of a struggle than it should be, in terms of getting people to work together as a team, working toward the same goal. I work regularly with people who have absolutely no idea what they're doing, and sadly there isn't a disincentive for this. For three years I've beat the drum for at least some performance basis to our compensation, but my company just can't get there, and ceaseless, unrelenting cost-cutting means we are constantly overperforming with fewer and fewer resources.

Ugh, I realize I'm not explaining this well. Simply put, I can't do anything more to protect the company, some of our senior management, and our owners from themselves. I sleep a few hours a night and my health is a complete wreck--not to mention my mental state--and things go further and further in the wrong direction every minute of every day. The company's results are heading in the wrong direction, and the good and now some of the bad rats are leaving the sinking ship. I've stuck it out as long as I have because I love my team, my boss (I realize no one ever says that!) and most of the legal department. We're very high-functioning but need help and support that is never going to be there.

I've worked very, very hard in my entire career. I've never hesitated on long hours and personal sacrifices--I've not only regularly worked 50+ hours straight or 400 hours in a month in my jobs, but I've dialed in for conference calls from my dad's funeral. My dear grandmother committed suicide and, while she was in a coma, I ran back to Chicago to work for a day after getting "the call" only to return and find she had died overnight. I've never done this because of money but because I simply don't know how else to work or a way to give less than 100% to something. Money comes as an unnecessary bonus to working the only way I know how, and even then I "invest" it unwisely--as much as we joke about it, our Central American empire exists mostly to provide good jobs to Nicaraguans who need them. So the time and sacrifice is not the issue, but the inability to make any difference and the inequity of watching people coast by when my team and I might quite literally be killing ourselves isn't something that I feel like I can continue to survive.

I'm at the end of my ####### rope.

I just needed to type that.

 

[krista4]

LCD class action I heard about this on the radio a couple of weeks ago but thought it was only for Missouri. I think I have $150 coming. Thanks lawyerbirds!!!

No Receipts or document required Not in Ohio

How do I know this isn't just a scam to get me to post all my info?

This might have been a joke, but this thing is completely legit. The head litigator in my company's been touting this for a while.

SOLD

<_<

She's a lawyer, Bob.

Not sure I get this whole thing.

Bob recommended signing up for the LCD suit. I questioned whether it was legit. You confirmed that it was and since you're a fancy, downtown lawyer I signed up. Bob is miffed that I didn't take his word for it. Conclusion? I'm a jerk.

Sorry. Not really all there right now. Glad you guys signed up. I should have thought to mention this. Actually I should also sign up myself.

 

[General Malaise]

3rd world problems...

JUST KIDDING GBK4!!! Hope you get some rest and relaxation soon. You'll do great whatever you decide.

 

[BobbyLayne]

I realize I'm unlikely to get any sympathy for this.

I'm so mentally, emotionally, and physically at the end of my rope with my job that Mr. krista and I discussed last night the idea that I might quit, giving a month's notice or some such, without looking for a new job first. This would entail giving up large amount of $$$ to which I'd be entitled in March. I had the Amazon interviews but otherwise haven't really pursued anything, but I'm not sure I can make it much longer.

I've never worked in a place as dysfunctional, with so many people who are completely unable to do their jobs and spend about 99% of their time attempting to cover their asses instead. Everything I do is 1000 times more of a struggle than it should be, in terms of getting people to work together as a team, working toward the same goal. I work regularly with people who have absolutely no idea what they're doing, and sadly there isn't a disincentive for this. For three years I've beat the drum for at least some performance basis to our compensation, but my company just can't get there, and ceaseless, unrelenting cost-cutting means we are constantly overperforming with fewer and fewer resources.

Ugh, I realize I'm not explaining this well. Simply put, I can't do anything more to protect the company, some of our senior management, and our owners from themselves. I sleep a few hours a night and my health is a complete wreck--not to mention my mental state--and things go further and further in the wrong direction every minute of every day. The company's results are heading in the wrong direction, and the good and now some of the bad rats are leaving the sinking ship. I've stuck it out as long as I have because I love my team, my boss (I realize no one ever says that!) and most of the legal department. We're very high-functioning but need help and support that is never going to be there.

I've worked very, very hard in my entire career. I've never hesitated on long hours and personal sacrifices--I've not only regularly worked 50+ hours straight in my jobs, but I've dialed in for conference calls from my dad's funeral. My dear grandmother committed suicide and, while she was in a coma, I ran back to Chicago to work for a day after getting "the call" only to return and find she had died overnight. I've never done this because of money but because I simply don't know how else to work or a way to give less than 100% to something. Money comes as an unnecessary bonus to working the only way I know how, and even then I "invest" it unwisely--as much as we joke about it, our Central American empire exists mostly to provide good jobs to Nicaraguans who need them. So the time and sacrifice is not the issue, but the inability to make any difference and the inequity of watching people coast by when my team and I might quite literally be killing ourselves isn't something that I feel like I can continue to survive.

I'm at the end of my ####### rope.

I just needed to type that.

I distinctly remember whining to GB K4 about my job earlier this year, specifically work/life balance, obliquely the dysfunction of the company. Now granted, my stress level at the time is a bit different from your workplace issues, but we both have heavy responsibility executive [pretentious] positions that require 70 [hour] work weeks and oh by the way we're the respective voice of sanity in our ####ed up worlds.I believe the response I got was something along the lines of "And? Sorry, did something change? Is this not what you expected and knew it would be?" I didn't save it since we have limited PM space, but the gist of it was shaddup and quit acting like you're a 9 to 5er.

You're welcome.



P.S. Yeah, that sucks. You should just tell them to TTJASI, and go on a 36 month world cruise. Or move FT to a 3rd world country.

 

[General Malaise]

Liquid Plummer Double Impact commercial.....how the holy hell have the bible thumpers not demanded this thing get pulled?