GM's thread about nothing (36 Viewers)

[Mr.Pack]

Adding injury to injury.

 

[Abraham]

Abe, sounds like some awesome perspective from you today. I can't imagine how hard it must be to type that out, but I'm proud of you It's tough to give up on your dream and put the good of your family first, but I'm happy for you that you've made that choice.

Me too. Not everything is solved, but it's a good start. Had an interview this morning as well (always good to have a backup plan) and I really liked the company. The most sobering thing has been how little my experience translates financially. I'm not entitled to having a high paying job, but I know a lot of people that earn 2x what I will and they are idiots. Lots of ground to make up, but I will get there. My brother works in comp at the company where I am going to work and is putting together a sales contest where the top prize is either going to be a Ferrari or five bmw's (team award) so there is still hope. Lol.I've also been sniffing around starting another business and have had a great ongoing conversation with Drj here until I shake myself and say "snap out of it. Maybe later but definitely not now!"

COlin, I haven't been around here much lately so I'm not sure I can offer anymore than good thoughts even if I have no clue what's going on.I'll say this, though - I was having a less-than-stellar day in the middle of coshole2013 and COlin hung there with my dumb ###. "He's a good dude" is as high a compliment as I can pay these days.

That whole weekend meant a lot to me. I'm introverted and like to spend my free time with my wife and kid. Sad as it seems, most of my "friends" Are on the Internet and in places like this thread. It was amazing to know the people for real. That afternoon I could tell you were hurting but I enjoyed just hanging out for a while.

 

[Tiger Fan]

TF's got a glorious head of hair and DID nab a foul ball probably before cos even made it to the top of the stairs (and gave it to a nearby kid, BTW).Good guys and good times.

That's a quality guy right there. All he wanted to do was catch a live foul ball and when he did? Gave it up.

I did the requisite "hold the ball up in the air" for the cameras and then looked for a kid to toss it to. I then got the requisite clap from the 3 people who were at the ballpark to witness it.

My buddy checked both feeds via MLBtv and neither captured by feat :sad:

 

[Idiot Boxer]

Good news in the GMTAN. Love it.

 

[Uruk-Hai]

Abe, sounds like some awesome perspective from you today. I can't imagine how hard it must be to type that out, but I'm proud of you It's tough to give up on your dream and put the good of your family first, but I'm happy for you that you've made that choice.

Me too. Not everything is solved, but it's a good start. Had an interview this morning as well (always good to have a backup plan) and I really liked the company. The most sobering thing has been how little my experience translates financially. I'm not entitled to having a high paying job, but I know a lot of people that earn 2x what I will and they are idiots. Lots of ground to make up, but I will get there. My brother works in comp at the company where I am going to work and is putting together a sales contest where the top prize is either going to be a Ferrari or five bmw's (team award) so there is still hope. Lol.I've also been sniffing around starting another business and have had a great ongoing conversation with Drj here until I shake myself and say "snap out of it. Maybe later but definitely not now!"

COlin, I haven't been around here much lately so I'm not sure I can offer anymore than good thoughts even if I have no clue what's going on.I'll say this, though - I was having a less-than-stellar day in the middle of coshole2013 and COlin hung there with my dumb ###. "He's a good dude" is as high a compliment as I can pay these days.

That whole weekend meant a lot to me. I'm introverted and like to spend my free time with my wife and kid. Sad as it seems, most of my "friends" Are on the Internet and in places like this thread. It was amazing to know the people for real. That afternoon I could tell you were hurting but I enjoyed just hanging out for a while.

Yeah, well you sat there watching hack my lungs out. Thank you.Don't get me wrong - there's no doubt in my mind that the rest of those idiots wouldn't have done the same. In fact, I think I cussed StLBob & GM into leaving me alone to go eat (see YSR for the video).

 

[Uruk-Hai]

Good news in the GMTAN. Love it.

Dare I hope a Steelers' fan runs this down to me?

 

[Osaurus]

There's a guy down the way in his yard with a bunch of weave poles and cones. He's doing some video work and I have seen some kids doing wind sprints in his yard with a parachute attached. An impressive training facility indeed.

 

[Tiger Fan]

We had a mandatory hour and a half sexual harrassment training at work today. They brought in someone from the outside to conduct the training and based on the examples she gave of sexual harrassment lawsuits I think everyone is now afraid to smile or speak to anyone else at work. A few highlights:

She gave an example of how our company HAS to provide a work environment that is free of sexual harrassment and that includes outside vendors that come into our building. She gave an example of the Coca Cola guy that comes in to refill the Coca Cola machine, that if every time he came in he said inappropriate things to a female employee, she asked what should the company do if this happened? Someone blurted out "switch to Pepsi"

After we turned in a "sign in sheet" to prove we all attended, the instructer looked at the sheet and chuckled and then said "this is the first time in all my years of doing sexual harrassment training that someone signed their name on the sign in sheet and then wrote I LOVE YOU"

About 10 minutes into the training, a male co-worker walks into the training and the instructor stops talking and turns and looks at him. He looks at her and says "Hi, I'm here for the gangbang"

HFS, I'm sitting in my office just giggling like a little kid

 

[Tiger Fan]

Hey, y'all. Someone here has a tumor half the size it used to be. And that piece of #### is on the run (the tumor, not me; I'd lose).

BFD, I caught a foul ball...and gave it to a kid

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[Mr.Pack]

Update about all kinds of things....

Spoiler

Wife is gone for a few days with the kid. I accepted a job that is a good, quality job. But it's a "cog in the wheel" job and I'm unlikely to ever make the difference professionally that I've craved my whole life. If I do a good job in this spot for a couple years I'll have a chance to move up a hair, rinse and repeat. But the paychecks come on time and don't bounce, which hasn't happened for me in a really long time. I have to pass a background check but they tell me my credit (spotty at best) isn't a consideration. I'm hopeful my afternoon in the county lockup for a non-moving traffic ticket doesn't factor in.

This point is also a confirmation that the business I started 5 years ago is unlikely to ever do much; at this point I'm trying to streamline things enough that my investors have a chance to get their money back in the next few years. And if, big if, I'm able to get them repaid eventually I think I'd just as likely to shut it down and move on with my life as I am to say "this is a viable small business that provides supplemental income." Hopefully that changes but I'm so exhausted right now that it's hard to stay enthused. Would love to take a real vacation but money is....well, tight.

I have tried to determine for weeks/months exactly why I did this (started my own business). Sadly, I can't really put my finger on it. At first I did it because I thought I'd be able to build a company that provided good jobs and gave me a chance to make good money. I enjoyed being "in charge" but it turns out that maybe I am not that good at it after all. I enjoyed the lifestyle of working from wherever I wanted and calling the shots, but it turns out that over time that created more stress and friction than I imagined. I enjoyed telling people "I own a business" but that only comes up every few months in casual conversation. I enjoyed the work initially but over time I was doing so many different things that it felt like juggling honeybadgers 24 hours a day and the enjoyment was largely gone. I'd go to bed worrying and wake up worrying - about the business, my family, money, investors, what I think I can actually accomplish in life.

I'm blessed that my wife hasn't left me again. I've sunk our life savings in to this business, gotten it out, put it back in, etc. and all I've managed to do is marginally extend our runway. On the one hand it could be worse; we could be dead and all could be lost. On the other hand, there are a zillion different things I could have done that might have helped a little. But I don't think there is anything I could have done that would have significantly changed our trajectory other than not drawing a salary early on. But if I'd made this my side business I never would have made it this far. I'm 36 years old and have done a lot of things in business and managed a lot of tough situations. The interviewer at the job I took asked me, "You'll be expected to make 25 phone calls a day and log at least three hours of talk time while managing your pipeline. Does that sound like something you can do?" I replied, "I've spent five years dealing with banks, investors, customers, vendors, partners and employees ten hours a day without a roadmap. If I did a good job, I had a job in the morning. If I did a bad job, my family didn't pay it's bills. What you describe sounds like a walk in the park." But also, I'm 36 years old and I'm basically starting over at square one on trying to be a responsible employee, husband, and father. MOst people in my position have put away for retirement and saved some other money and have a job track. I just have a job, hopefully. But it's a long overdue start.

The best day of my professional life is captured in a picture my wife took with her phone. I was wearing a suit in our room on the 5th floor of the Ambassador East hotel in Chicago. She was 7 months pregnant and had traveled with me to meet what would become our biggest customer for the first time. She took a picture of me by the window right as I was leaving for the meeting. I didn't know it then, but that was the peak. The positive potential was through the roof. Just couldn't pull it all together over time.

Kind of numb about the whole thing. I'm so worn out from the difficulties we've had in recent years that I am having trouble feeling excited about the new job just as I'm having trouble feeling sad/depressed about the business. Like I said, the business will go on but it is a near certainty that I'll never work here full time again.

When in times of trouble I turn to beer. The cause of, and solution to, most of life's problems.

Thanks for the support Jim Tan.

You have real world work experience that most people our age couldn't acquire in 10 "normal" jobs. It could be enough to ensure you're never unemployed for very long, as it's a perspective most hiring managers should value.

I know that's not much consolation right now, but it's an asset, same as the $50k somebody else might have stashed in a 401(k) by grinding it out the last 5 years while gaining very little in the way of meaningful, transferable skills.

And just because you're taking this job right now, that doesn't mean you need to stop looking for the one that allows you to make the difference professionally that you've craved your whole life. There are lots of ways to make a difference professionally. And there are lots of people who "failed" at things at a much older age than you. Life is less a series of beginnings and ends than it is a series of transitions.

This is one of those.

Just my $.02.



:(

 

[krista4]

Nice save Bobby.

Is there a way I can politely get my friend's dog to stop posting on my Facebook?

Is this Alfredo?

Yes. You know him?

In order to avoid mistakes like this we need to come up with some sort of FFA/GMTAN secret hand gesture for identification purposes.

Something like this.

SPACE BATS!!!

 

[Bob Sacamano]

Is there a way I can politely get my friend's dog to stop posting on my Facebook?

Is this Alfredo?

Yes. You know him?

Not yet.

 

[krista4]

PROJECT KILL MACHINE

Reminds me of one of our ####### cats.

Update about all kinds of things....

Spoiler

Wife is gone for a few days with the kid. I accepted a job that is a good, quality job. But it's a "cog in the wheel" job and I'm unlikely to ever make the difference professionally that I've craved my whole life. If I do a good job in this spot for a couple years I'll have a chance to move up a hair, rinse and repeat. But the paychecks come on time and don't bounce, which hasn't happened for me in a really long time. I have to pass a background check but they tell me my credit (spotty at best) isn't a consideration. I'm hopeful my afternoon in the county lockup for a non-moving traffic ticket doesn't factor in.

This point is also a confirmation that the business I started 5 years ago is unlikely to ever do much; at this point I'm trying to streamline things enough that my investors have a chance to get their money back in the next few years. And if, big if, I'm able to get them repaid eventually I think I'd just as likely to shut it down and move on with my life as I am to say "this is a viable small business that provides supplemental income." Hopefully that changes but I'm so exhausted right now that it's hard to stay enthused. Would love to take a real vacation but money is....well, tight.

I have tried to determine for weeks/months exactly why I did this (started my own business). Sadly, I can't really put my finger on it. At first I did it because I thought I'd be able to build a company that provided good jobs and gave me a chance to make good money. I enjoyed being "in charge" but it turns out that maybe I am not that good at it after all. I enjoyed the lifestyle of working from wherever I wanted and calling the shots, but it turns out that over time that created more stress and friction than I imagined. I enjoyed telling people "I own a business" but that only comes up every few months in casual conversation. I enjoyed the work initially but over time I was doing so many different things that it felt like juggling honeybadgers 24 hours a day and the enjoyment was largely gone. I'd go to bed worrying and wake up worrying - about the business, my family, money, investors, what I think I can actually accomplish in life.

I'm blessed that my wife hasn't left me again. I've sunk our life savings in to this business, gotten it out, put it back in, etc. and all I've managed to do is marginally extend our runway. On the one hand it could be worse; we could be dead and all could be lost. On the other hand, there are a zillion different things I could have done that might have helped a little. But I don't think there is anything I could have done that would have significantly changed our trajectory other than not drawing a salary early on. But if I'd made this my side business I never would have made it this far. I'm 36 years old and have done a lot of things in business and managed a lot of tough situations. The interviewer at the job I took asked me, "You'll be expected to make 25 phone calls a day and log at least three hours of talk time while managing your pipeline. Does that sound like something you can do?" I replied, "I've spent five years dealing with banks, investors, customers, vendors, partners and employees ten hours a day without a roadmap. If I did a good job, I had a job in the morning. If I did a bad job, my family didn't pay it's bills. What you describe sounds like a walk in the park." But also, I'm 36 years old and I'm basically starting over at square one on trying to be a responsible employee, husband, and father. MOst people in my position have put away for retirement and saved some other money and have a job track. I just have a job, hopefully. But it's a long overdue start.

The best day of my professional life is captured in a picture my wife took with her phone. I was wearing a suit in our room on the 5th floor of the Ambassador East hotel in Chicago. She was 7 months pregnant and had traveled with me to meet what would become our biggest customer for the first time. She took a picture of me by the window right as I was leaving for the meeting. I didn't know it then, but that was the peak. The positive potential was through the roof. Just couldn't pull it all together over time.

Kind of numb about the whole thing. I'm so worn out from the difficulties we've had in recent years that I am having trouble feeling excited about the new job just as I'm having trouble feeling sad/depressed about the business. Like I said, the business will go on but it is a near certainty that I'll never work here full time again.

When in times of trouble I turn to beer. The cause of, and solution to, most of life's problems.

Thanks for the support Jim Tan.

Bob Sacamano said all the good stuff. Just here to congratulate you; think this is going to be a great step for you and your family. Also, Juggling Honeybadgers is a great band name.

Hey, y'all. Someone here has a tumor half the size it used to be. And that piece of #### is on the run (the tumor, not me; I'd lose).

 

[St. Louis Bob]

I carefully wrapped each bottle in newspaper and packed it in a box full of bubble wrap. I just don't feel like having to do it again. Bunch of dickmittens.

I guess you learned your lesson after my Secret Santa mishap.

I TRIED.

Update about all kinds of things....

Spoiler

Wife is gone for a few days with the kid. I accepted a job that is a good, quality job. But it's a "cog in the wheel" job and I'm unlikely to ever make the difference professionally that I've craved my whole life. If I do a good job in this spot for a couple years I'll have a chance to move up a hair, rinse and repeat. But the paychecks come on time and don't bounce, which hasn't happened for me in a really long time. I have to pass a background check but they tell me my credit (spotty at best) isn't a consideration. I'm hopeful my afternoon in the county lockup for a non-moving traffic ticket doesn't factor in.

This point is also a confirmation that the business I started 5 years ago is unlikely to ever do much; at this point I'm trying to streamline things enough that my investors have a chance to get their money back in the next few years. And if, big if, I'm able to get them repaid eventually I think I'd just as likely to shut it down and move on with my life as I am to say "this is a viable small business that provides supplemental income." Hopefully that changes but I'm so exhausted right now that it's hard to stay enthused. Would love to take a real vacation but money is....well, tight.

I have tried to determine for weeks/months exactly why I did this (started my own business). Sadly, I can't really put my finger on it. At first I did it because I thought I'd be able to build a company that provided good jobs and gave me a chance to make good money. I enjoyed being "in charge" but it turns out that maybe I am not that good at it after all. I enjoyed the lifestyle of working from wherever I wanted and calling the shots, but it turns out that over time that created more stress and friction than I imagined. I enjoyed telling people "I own a business" but that only comes up every few months in casual conversation. I enjoyed the work initially but over time I was doing so many different things that it felt like juggling honeybadgers 24 hours a day and the enjoyment was largely gone. I'd go to bed worrying and wake up worrying - about the business, my family, money, investors, what I think I can actually accomplish in life.

I'm blessed that my wife hasn't left me again. I've sunk our life savings in to this business, gotten it out, put it back in, etc. and all I've managed to do is marginally extend our runway. On the one hand it could be worse; we could be dead and all could be lost. On the other hand, there are a zillion different things I could have done that might have helped a little. But I don't think there is anything I could have done that would have significantly changed our trajectory other than not drawing a salary early on. But if I'd made this my side business I never would have made it this far. I'm 36 years old and have done a lot of things in business and managed a lot of tough situations. The interviewer at the job I took asked me, "You'll be expected to make 25 phone calls a day and log at least three hours of talk time while managing your pipeline. Does that sound like something you can do?" I replied, "I've spent five years dealing with banks, investors, customers, vendors, partners and employees ten hours a day without a roadmap. If I did a good job, I had a job in the morning. If I did a bad job, my family didn't pay it's bills. What you describe sounds like a walk in the park." But also, I'm 36 years old and I'm basically starting over at square one on trying to be a responsible employee, husband, and father. MOst people in my position have put away for retirement and saved some other money and have a job track. I just have a job, hopefully. But it's a long overdue start.

The best day of my professional life is captured in a picture my wife took with her phone. I was wearing a suit in our room on the 5th floor of the Ambassador East hotel in Chicago. She was 7 months pregnant and had traveled with me to meet what would become our biggest customer for the first time. She took a picture of me by the window right as I was leaving for the meeting. I didn't know it then, but that was the peak. The positive potential was through the roof. Just couldn't pull it all together over time.

Kind of numb about the whole thing. I'm so worn out from the difficulties we've had in recent years that I am having trouble feeling excited about the new job just as I'm having trouble feeling sad/depressed about the business. Like I said, the business will go on but it is a near certainty that I'll never work here full time again.

When in times of trouble I turn to beer. The cause of, and solution to, most of life's problems.

Thanks for the support Jim Tan.

Good luck GB, hope things move in a positive direction for you.

We had a mandatory hour and a half sexual harrassment training at work today. They brought in someone from the outside to conduct the training and based on the examples she gave of sexual harrassment lawsuits I think everyone is now afraid to smile or speak to anyone else at work. A few highlights:

She gave an example of how our company HAS to provide a work environment that is free of sexual harrassment and that includes outside vendors that come into our building. She gave an example of the Coca Cola guy that comes in to refill the Coca Cola machine, that if every time he came in he said inappropriate things to a female employee, she asked what should the company do if this happened? Someone blurted out "switch to Pepsi"

After we turned in a "sign in sheet" to prove we all attended, the instructer looked at the sheet and chuckled and then said "this is the first time in all my years of doing sexual harrassment training that someone signed their name on the sign in sheet and then wrote I LOVE YOU"

About 10 minutes into the training, a male co-worker walks into the training and the instructor stops talking and turns and looks at him. He looks at her and says "Hi, I'm here for the gangbang"

That line works in so many situations.

Hey, y'all. Someone here has a tumor half the size it used to be. And that piece of #### is on the run (the tumor, not me; I'd lose).

####### A!

 

[Idiot Boxer]

Good news in the GMTAN. Love it.

Dare I hope a Steelers' fan runs this down to me?

Krista leaves job hell. Abe steps up for job opportunity. Uruk kicking tumor's ###.

Good news after a run of bad news in the GMTAN.

 

[Gadzooks]

Good news in the GMTAN. Love it.

Dare I hope a Steelers' fan runs this down to me?

Krista leaves job hell. Abe steps up for job opportunity. Uruk kicking tumor's ###.

Good news after a run of bad news in the GMTAN.

And I mailed out my Secret Santa gift!!!!!!!

 

[Abraham]

Plus a guy at the bar is wearing a white linen suit and a pink shirt.

 

[mr. furley]

GM should breed with this woman.

Another good update:: today is Mark Dalton's birthday:: he is technolically (SP?) not inclinded...he has no cell phone and can't run the internet::

How's her skin? Does she have a pinkish hugh (sp?)?

 

[Tremendous Upside]

Plus a guy at the bar is wearing a white linen suit and a pink shirt.

Wife leaves you home alone and you take the first plane to Miami?

 

[mr. furley]

tumor> gfy

 

[Doctor Detroit]

I know we have some lawyer types and some HR types in here and I have a question. I would have made it its own thread, but I figure I know some of the folks who post in here better. Feel free to PM me if you don't want to put your answer here.

I work with a very immature young person who is in a middle management position that holds some weight. She is "buddies" with the Deputy Director and she gets away with quite a lot of stuff. Anyway, she got into an argument with the sweetest lady anyone has ever met, a 60ish Americans with Disabilities Act hire who really knows everyone and everything about what we do. It wasn't a yelling match or anything and didn't seem all that serious, but at the end the young woman said, "you're dead to me" and walked away. Keep in mind that this lady is disabled because she got in a car accident that nearly took her life. Now this lady is very upset and she doesn't want to take it to the top because she needs the job and the young woman is in cahoots with the DepDir.

Anyway, I have to address this with my boss at some point but I wondered if there is any legal implications/recourse for the older woman. I basically am going to demand my boss act on this and show me proof that he acted, so you can see why I want to know as much as possible about whether this might be borderline assault or what a private employer might do in these circumstances.

Anyway, thanks in advance for any assistance.

 

[Tremendous Upside]

In a private company environment it would likely go to a direct report first, and then he/she would take it to HR

I doubt it would be grounds for termination, but I'd imagine a meeting, letter in one's file and a warning for the future would be in the person's future

As far as legal implications go, it seems unlikely, especially since it wasn't a direct threat of violence i.e. "I'm going to kill you"

Not sure what your org chart looks like, but I take it you are not this woman's supervisor?

 

[Crazy Canuck]

Hey, y'all. Someone here has a tumor half the size it used to be. And that piece of #### is on the run (the tumor, not me; I'd lose).

Woohoo!

 

[Mr. Pickles]

Update about all kinds of things....

Spoiler

Wife is gone for a few days with the kid. I accepted a job that is a good, quality job. But it's a "cog in the wheel" job and I'm unlikely to ever make the difference professionally that I've craved my whole life. If I do a good job in this spot for a couple years I'll have a chance to move up a hair, rinse and repeat. But the paychecks come on time and don't bounce, which hasn't happened for me in a really long time. I have to pass a background check but they tell me my credit (spotty at best) isn't a consideration. I'm hopeful my afternoon in the county lockup for a non-moving traffic ticket doesn't factor in. This point is also a confirmation that the business I started 5 years ago is unlikely to ever do much; at this point I'm trying to streamline things enough that my investors have a chance to get their money back in the next few years. And if, big if, I'm able to get them repaid eventually I think I'd just as likely to shut it down and move on with my life as I am to say "this is a viable small business that provides supplemental income." Hopefully that changes but I'm so exhausted right now that it's hard to stay enthused. Would love to take a real vacation but money is....well, tight. I have tried to determine for weeks/months exactly why I did this (started my own business). Sadly, I can't really put my finger on it. At first I did it because I thought I'd be able to build a company that provided good jobs and gave me a chance to make good money. I enjoyed being "in charge" but it turns out that maybe I am not that good at it after all. I enjoyed the lifestyle of working from wherever I wanted and calling the shots, but it turns out that over time that created more stress and friction than I imagined. I enjoyed telling people "I own a business" but that only comes up every few months in casual conversation. I enjoyed the work initially but over time I was doing so many different things that it felt like juggling honeybadgers 24 hours a day and the enjoyment was largely gone. I'd go to bed worrying and wake up worrying - about the business, my family, money, investors, what I think I can actually accomplish in life. I'm blessed that my wife hasn't left me again. I've sunk our life savings in to this business, gotten it out, put it back in, etc. and all I've managed to do is marginally extend our runway. On the one hand it could be worse; we could be dead and all could be lost. On the other hand, there are a zillion different things I could have done that might have helped a little. But I don't think there is anything I could have done that would have significantly changed our trajectory other than not drawing a salary early on. But if I'd made this my side business I never would have made it this far. I'm 36 years old and have done a lot of things in business and managed a lot of tough situations. The interviewer at the job I took asked me, "You'll be expected to make 25 phone calls a day and log at least three hours of talk time while managing your pipeline. Does that sound like something you can do?" I replied, "I've spent five years dealing with banks, investors, customers, vendors, partners and employees ten hours a day without a roadmap. If I did a good job, I had a job in the morning. If I did a bad job, my family didn't pay it's bills. What you describe sounds like a walk in the park." But also, I'm 36 years old and I'm basically starting over at square one on trying to be a responsible employee, husband, and father. MOst people in my position have put away for retirement and saved some other money and have a job track. I just have a job, hopefully. But it's a long overdue start. The best day of my professional life is captured in a picture my wife took with her phone. I was wearing a suit in our room on the 5th floor of the Ambassador East hotel in Chicago. She was 7 months pregnant and had traveled with me to meet what would become our biggest customer for the first time. She took a picture of me by the window right as I was leaving for the meeting. I didn't know it then, but that was the peak. The positive potential was through the roof. Just couldn't pull it all together over time. Kind of numb about the whole thing. I'm so worn out from the difficulties we've had in recent years that I am having trouble feeling excited about the new job just as I'm having trouble feeling sad/depressed about the business. Like I said, the business will go on but it is a near certainty that I'll never work here full time again. When in times of trouble I turn to beer. The cause of, and solution to, most of life's problems. Thanks for the support Jim Tan.

Great summary. You're a good seed, Costanza. Now get out there and outsell Lloyd Braun.

 

[Mr. Pickles]

Hey, y'all. Someone here has a tumor half the size it used to be. And that piece of #### is on the run (the tumor, not me; I'd lose).

Best thing I've read all day.

 

[Abraham]

Oh shot. Owner of the company I interviewed with today just called me at 8pm to ask to take me to lunch tomorrow.

 

[Crazy Canuck]

Good news in the GMTAN. Love it.

Dare I hope a Steelers' fan runs this down to me?

Krista leaves job hell. Abe steps up for job opportunity. Uruk kicking tumor's ###.

Good news after a run of bad news in the GMTAN.

And I mailed out my Secret Santa gift!!!!!!!

I just got my first tattoo.

Spoiler

My wife wearing a Ryan Fitzpatrick jersey

I also said the n-word (won't risk bannation by using the real word) to a black Muslim today and I not only walked away unscathed, but he agreed with what I was saying. Then I showed him my new tattoo and he called me a crazy cracker. :(

Those got to be worth something, right?

 

[Osaurus]

Oh shot. Owner of the company I interviewed with today just called me at 8pm to ask to take me to lunch tomorrow.

Steak and lobster or no deal.

 

[Crazy Canuck]

Oh shot. Owner of the company I interviewed with today just called me at 8pm to ask to take me to lunch tomorrow.

Order a salad. Because remember, you need this job, and worse comes to worse 1 tablespoon of semen is 20 calories.

ETA: ok, seriously, best of luck Abe.

 

[Abraham]

Oh shot. Owner of the company I interviewed with today just called me at 8pm to ask to take me to lunch tomorrow.

Order a salad. Because remember, you need this job, and worse comes to worse 1 tablespoon of semen is 20 calories.

I've already accepted another job. Didn't expect to get such immediate attention.

 

[Crazy Canuck]

I don't know if Chrome sucks or if this new FFA software sucks or they just like sucking each other off, but I'm done with Chrome. Going back to Firefox. I haven't been able to open spoiler tags with Chrome for awhile now. I was hoping it was just a glitch in the matrix, but nope. So. for example, I just read Abe's heartfelt post about his business.

Has anyone noted how the new FFA software sucks? Just curious.

 

[Crazy Canuck]

Oh shot. Owner of the company I interviewed with today just called me at 8pm to ask to take me to lunch tomorrow.

Order a salad. Because remember, you need this job, and worse comes to worse 1 tablespoon of semen is 20 calories.

I've already accepted another job. Didn't expect to get such immediate attention.

I know; I just read your spoiler post. Definitely demand steak or lobster. It's more calories per tablespoon but I'm guessing they taste better.

 

[Doctor Detroit]

In a private company environment it would likely go to a direct report first, and then he/she would take it to HR

I doubt it would be grounds for termination, but I'd imagine a meeting, letter in one's file and a warning for the future would be in the person's future

As far as legal implications go, it seems unlikely, especially since it wasn't a direct threat of violence i.e. "I'm going to kill you"

Not sure what your org chart looks like, but I take it you are not this woman's supervisor?

Her supervisor is my equivalent (dept head) and has no balls, he fears the Deputy Director. I think I may have found an out though, we have what is essentially a senior liaison who deals with personnel issues. She is on it and leaving soon so she has nothing to lose. This all comes as my boss has lost a lot of credibility because of the relationship between this younger woman and the Dep Director. He not only ignores it, he told the whole directorate of 60 people that nothing is going on when it most certainly is (they post pictures of each other on facebook and the like).

As an aside and for purposes of contributing to the thread I'll add a story. So she was hot after one of the younger guys in the office and they became friends and such but he gave her the stiff arm when it came to dating. Anyway she went off on him on twitter and all these people are connected. So he came back with a bigger insult and it was met with 30 lols/burns/own3d from everyone at work. So she tried to get him on facebook or something, etc.

So he's down in Florida at a bar and on the wall is a big sign that says "DATING GAME." Below the sign hang hundreds of $1 bills. On those dollar bills is a name and a number of someone looking for love...or not. He writes her name and number on the $1 bill, hangs it on the board and she receives no less than ten phone calls from NoFla hillbillies.

 

[Abraham]

Oh shot. Owner of the company I interviewed with today just called me at 8pm to ask to take me to lunch tomorrow.

Order a salad. Because remember, you need this job, and worse comes to worse 1 tablespoon of semen is 20 calories.

I've already accepted another job. Didn't expect to get such immediate attention.

I know; I just read your spoiler post. Definitely demand steak or lobster. It's more calories per tablespoon but I'm guessing they taste better.

It's about five things:M

O

N

E

Y

I will fck the company I accepted with if the money is right.

 

[Frostillicus]

Awesome news, UH.

 

[SofaKings]

Oooooohhhhhh Sofa.................. I have confirmation from the United States Post Office that a very special Christmasy box of joy will be delivered to home of Sofakings on this Friday. My goal all along was to get it to you before May, so I'm a little ahead of schedule. Please, note I included a letter with an inventory of prizes however, one item is not in the box which is a paperback novel titled "Black Ice". I bought it a couple years ago and figured that if I ever met Shuke in real life that then he would be facebook friends with me and then I'd find out his address and mail the book to him. That book was the last thing I was putting in the box and when I went to look for it I couldn't find it. I asked Little Zooks if he saw the book I left on the dinning room table and he said he saw it and he hid somewhere in the house because he thought that would be funny. He has no clue where he hid it. I didn't feel like updating the inventory on the letter because I was afraid that would delay me in mailing the package for another few months. I hope you and your family enjoy everything in the box.

I love you

I love you I love you so much my heart is sure. As time goes on I love you more, your happy smile, your loving face, no on will ever take your place.

 

[SofaKings]

Hey Uruk Hai's tumor: SPACE BATS!!!!

 

[Stoneys]

Congrats UH.....best of luck Abe....Zooks, you killed me with your post.

Because of all the good news, I will not bring it to an end tonight...

 

[Limp Ditka]

Go UH! Beat that ####### disease's ###

 

[Frostillicus]

Good news in the GMTAN. Love it.

Dare I hope a Steelers' fan runs this down to me?

Krista leaves job hell. Abe steps up for job opportunity. Uruk kicking tumor's ###.

Good news after a run of bad news in the GMTAN.

And I mailed out my Secret Santa gift!!!!!!!

If we're doing the good news stuff we found out today we can refi the home loan and cut our monthly payment by 30% and the lender is picking up the closing costs.

 

[charvik]

Hey, y'all. Someone here has a tumor half the size it used to be. And that piece of #### is on the run (the tumor, not me; I'd lose).

Best thing I've read all day.

 

[Bob Sacamano]

Oh shot. Owner of the company I interviewed with today just called me at 8pm to ask to take me to lunch tomorrow.

Order a salad. Because remember, you need this job, and worse comes to worse 1 tablespoon of semen is 20 calories.

I've already accepted another job. Didn't expect to get such immediate attention.

I assume you didn't have to sign a contract.

 

[Bob Sacamano]

Oh shot. Owner of the company I interviewed with today just called me at 8pm to ask to take me to lunch tomorrow.

Order a salad. Because remember, you need this job, and worse comes to worse 1 tablespoon of semen is 20 calories.

I've already accepted another job. Didn't expect to get such immediate attention.

I know; I just read your spoiler post. Definitely demand steak or lobster. It's more calories per tablespoon but I'm guessing they taste better.

It's about five things:M

O

N

E

Y

I will fck the company I accepted with if the money is right.

n/mGood answer

 

[proninja]

You guys who still use bar soap: Do you still listen to vinyl records because it is "more real"?

I use whatever soap the wife puts in the shower.

Never pegged Tanner for the fancy soap snob

 

[proninja]

Thanks. I'm coming to grips with the fact that I'll never own the Astros or even a Ferrari. More seriously, I'm coming to grips with the fact that despite my previously high opinion of myself, I'm "just a guy." Nothing wrong with that at all. I could only be so blessed as to be a great father and husband. That would be the most rewarding thing I can imagine. But I spent the last decade thinking I could do whatever I want due to sheer intellectual might which is both foolish and irresponsible. My arrogance led me to the brink of disaster and I'm VERY thankful to have a way out that doesn't include losing everything important to me.

This resonates with me a lot. Went through it a couple years ago, but it ended a lot worse than it did for you (lost house, wife, etc.)

After a few years I don't feel the need to point out that I used to have a better job, that I'm doing this by choice, and that I'm so much better than this. I'm pretty content being just an average joe. My wife is happy, the bills get paid, some money gets saved, and I'll probably do this for a really long time and it probably won't impress anyone. But that's ok. That's not the point of this whole thing. Hope it goes as well for you as it has for me.

 

[Tremendous Upside]

Never pegged Tanner

Good info here

 

[proninja]

Hey, y'all. Someone here has a tumor half the size it used to be. And that piece of #### is on the run (the tumor, not me; I'd lose).

It's about time we had a day with some good news in it

 

[Abraham]

Thanks. I'm coming to grips with the fact that I'll never own the Astros or even a Ferrari. More seriously, I'm coming to grips with the fact that despite my previously high opinion of myself, I'm "just a guy." Nothing wrong with that at all. I could only be so blessed as to be a great father and husband. That would be the most rewarding thing I can imagine. But I spent the last decade thinking I could do whatever I want due to sheer intellectual might which is both foolish and irresponsible. My arrogance led me to the brink of disaster and I'm VERY thankful to have a way out that doesn't include losing everything important to me.

This resonates with me a lot. Went through it a couple years ago, but it ended a lot worse than it did for you (lost house, wife, etc.) After a few years I don't feel the need to point out that I used to have a better job, that I'm doing this by choice, and that I'm so much better than this. I'm pretty content being just an average joe. My wife is happy, the bills get paid, some money gets saved, and I'll probably do this for a really long time and it probably won't impress anyone. But that's ok. That's not the point of this whole thing. Hope it goes as well for you as it has for me.

I have appreciated your pm's along the way. Thanks.

 

[Tecumseh]

Hey, y'all. Someone here has a tumor half the size it used to be. And that piece of #### is on the run (the tumor, not me; I'd lose).

Best thing I've read all day.

Kick it's ###, Uruk.

 

[Tiger Fan]

Good news in the GMTAN. Love it.

Dare I hope a Steelers' fan runs this down to me?

Krista leaves job hell. Abe steps up for job opportunity. Uruk kicking tumor's ###. Good news after a run of bad news in the GMTAN.

And I mailed out my Secret Santa gift!!!!!!!

If we're doing the good news stuff we found out today we can refi the home loan and cut our monthly payment by 30% and the lender is picking up the closing costs.

What lender?