Ok - so I couldn’t come up with a good quote for todays title, and since I’m not longer worried about wasting time at work, I figured I’d venture forth from the movie quote blog titles.
Phlome called me at 10 and made me get out of bed. Katoing isn’t as easy as i had hoped. I have no tolerance for daytime tv. Springer is dumb, the view is loud, and price is right is dull.
Discovery channel, animal planet, and TLC have decent shows though. That’s what i watche for about an hour.
Now i’m up and about to start some laundry, before i go get some chinese for lunch.
Looking forward to seeing everyone this weekend. We’re counting on the Arkansas crew to come down to make the party a hit! wickkett, neko, jess - do what you can to make sure you all can come down. I’ll just cry if someone doesnt’ come!
Free at last, free at last, praise the lord I’m free at last!
Or whichever diety you choose to praise.
That’s right folks they sent me home today at 3:00 central. I know everyone’s dying to know the details - it was really rather anticlimacitc but here’s a sumation:
Boss called me to his office at aout 2:30. He basically asked me what the letter was all about (see the extended entry for the full text of the letter). I told him the letter included everything I had to say. He told me I shouldn’t have submitted this letter, that instead I should have kept it ‘cordial’ and addressed these issues with HR. I told him that I wanted him to be aware of why I was leaving, and wanted the IT director to be aware of what I was saying since he was included in senior manangment.
We went round and round a few times, and i reminded him that he told me there was nothing he could do about my positin until budget allowed for it, and with that sort of mindset, I felt like I was going no where. Lots of repeating myself, the jist being that I was unhappy there.
Anyway, then he said since my letter made him uncomfortable, that I would have to leave after the meeting. We said a few things, he wished me luck, escorted me to my desk, where i gave him the office/desk keys, and I walked out the door. While we were in the meeting IT locked down my pc.
Now I’m home and am tempted to run around in my bathign suit for no reason other than hey, it’s something to do.
Looking forward to Kato-ing for a few days, but also glad I’ve got more time to get the house ready for the party this weekend!
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OK - so no one’s talking to me today.
A couple of people have made the standard daily request to prepare a shipment, the standard hi how are ya stuff. But the boss is obviously avoiding me. Only once did he even walk through the lobby - and that was on his wayout the door.
I’ve actually seen him standing in the hallway - like there’s some sort of forcefield. Ohhh no don’t walk in there.
It’s crazy i tell ya.
And very dull.
I’m not sure how much longer I can sit her and be bored.
I’m doing my best to entertain myself online.
I dont’ want to be stuck inside, and if it werent’ for the fact that I do still actually need the money for these next couple of weeks, I’d be out of here.
This place is retaaaded (that’s with a slight boston accent).
So yesterday afterwork I gave my letter to the boss. It was after 5 (he’s a hard bastard to track down, not to mention I was nervous about it, so I think I avoided it a bit too long) and I had spent a good 2 hours trying to get him when he didn’t have a client w/ him, wasn’t in the office with someone else, and wasn’t on the phone.
So I give him the letter, tell him it’s my letter of resignation.
He smirked. Which I guess means he was amused.
Then he said, “Wow, this is quite lengthy.”
I told him that I needed to leave, but that we could talk about it in the morning if he wants to.
He said, “OK”
Then I left.
So now it’s after 9, and I haven’t seen hide nor hair of him.
But I know he’s in the office because his car is here, he’s been on the phone, and I think I may have heard his voice.
I copied the director of IT on an email that containted the same letter, he too has not said anything to me.
No one has. So I’m guessing the boss didn’t feel it was necessary to let anyone know, that I don’t plan on being here much longer. I also figure he didn’t expect me to come in this morning.
This place is just goofy. I think I may just come and go as I please this week. No one seems to care.
I really hoped that I would come in and be locked out of my computer. Someone else had logged in, but nothing has been changed as far as I can tell.
This is really quite disappointing.
On another only slightly related note I’ve got a few suggestions for party themes, easy ones I think, given the short notice:
Dysfunctional Care Bear:
A lot of us took this test and discovered we were Tramp Bear, or Gay Bear, or some were lucky like me and got Raver Bear. So my suggestion is to take the Dysfunctionaly Care Bear Test, if you haven’t already, and come dressed and accessoriezed in the theme assigned to you by your results. Or if you don’t like your results, take the quiz a few times til you find one you like.
Slumber Party:
This is a real easy one. Since I’m fully expect to have lots of folks crashing at our place this weekend, why bother with dressing up at all? Just come in your pjs, or nighty, or whatever it is you sleep in (or want us to think you sleep in). Kudos for the person brave enough to come nakie!
Ok - check out Katie’s blog today to understand why I’m sharing this particular story today.
So here’s the story. Phlome and I were at blockbuster, and I decided I wanted to rent “Quills”.
So Phlome concedes. At the house Zero was using the tv in the living room, so phlome and I go to watch the movie in his bedroom. We get about 1/4 of a way through the movie when it sticks - just froze on one scene. Phlome and I kept stopping and rewinding, then skipping ahead. It would play for a bit then freeze again. So phlome decides to take out the dvd to see if it’s scratched up.
But the dvd drawer wouldn’t open. So he futzes with it for a bit, then goes to get a kitchen knife.
The dvd has stuck to the top inside of the dvd player. He manages to pry it off without causing any damage to the dvd. Tuns out someone had taken the blockbuster sticker off the top of the dvd, and the heat of the dvd player caused the remaining goo to get sticky again. Thus resulting in dvd stuck to inside of dvd player.
Phlome is now convinced blockbuster has ruined his dvd player. So we pop in another disk, and YAY it doesn’t stick. Just so happens that the disk he picked up was porn.
Jump forward a few months and we’re watching another movie. It sticks. Oh NO not again! But to make sure it’s not the dvd player, phlome pops in a dvd. It works perfectly. But suprise surprise it’s the porn again.
Then we put the other movie back in, and it runs just fine.
So now, whenever a dvd sticks, we pop in the porn, let it work it’s magic, then go back to our movie.
Yay for Porn! It fixes phlome’s dvd player.
And bonus prize for whoever first names the movie the title of this entry came from (without cheating - you’re on the honor system here). The answer must appear in the comments section.
I GOT THE JOB!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Yay! I start April 12th. More money, better benefits and stock options!
And I’m getting out of the hell-hole.
I’ve got to go call people now - if I could just track my mother down. She deserves to be the first to know (after phlome, since he was right here when it happened). And now after you folks, since she won’t answer her damn phone!
more later! I can’t wait to give the boss my 2 weeks notice!
oh yeah, i get a laptop too!
I suck at poker. 3.5 hours of playing and I won one friggin’ hand. One - that’s over three hours of loosing. That’s shit for one’s ego. So 10 of Phlome’s dollars down the drain. It’s ok, I suppose, because he’s been winning it back, and then some.
Still it’s no fun to play something for 3 hours and loose the entire time.
So I’m back to drinking.
Zero got a keg and keg fridge. Now we’re serious partiers. Seriously folks, I’m livin’ in a bachelor’s pad. It’s like college, without the studying, and more beer. Oh yeah and you have to be in class for 9 hours a day 5 days a week - only you’re not learning, you’re just pissing your life away to pay off your car, while ‘the man’ sucks the life out of you.
I’m gonna go watch phlome win, and accept my failure as a poker player.
I need more girl friends around here.
I just wanted to share this quote, because that’s the way I feel today. I hate having my hoped dashed against the rocks of corporate beurocracy. No no, hope is not all lost. But I so wanted to have a happy weekend with no concerns as to whether I have to come back into this hell hole all next week.
I want to quit even if I don’t get this job, just so the people here at work will see that there is a way out. Becuase this place is miserable.
My boss actually told DAC that he was worthless. What kind of work environment is that? And what kind of person will stand for that? A doormat that’s who. Someone who is hopeless and has no other recourse but to wait it out and hope that he can keep this shitty job cuz he lost all his retirement when the market crashed in 2001, and no one wants to hire someone who’s already past retirment age, when they can hire someone much younger for less money.
The people who work here are sad folk. I don’t want to be one of them anymore.
I must say, though my life is only pain until 5pm. Afer 5 I love my life. I’ve got a great living arangement w/ an awesome roomate/landlord. A perfect boyfriend, and dogs that greet me with the enthusiasm only a truly loved dog can offer. I go out on weekends regularly, I play racquetball for fun and excercise, and in the summer I can go home and jump in the pool. I mean really - it is a good life!
OK, I’m done for now - I think I’ll go bug stormy so maybe he can distract me from the next hour and a half until I can go home and be happy again.
Well, they didn’t make me a job offer today. But they don’t seem to be interviewing anyone else for this position. And I should hear something early next week.
According to “joe” they work very quickly there, and I should hear something ’soon’. How soon I ask. Early next week at the latest. Hmm, well ok I guess that means Before wed? Or does that mean monday? cuz wed. = mid week, but tues can fall under early or mid week.
Anyway - time for the waiting game again. I’m upset, because I needed this news today. But I’m still hopefull, because i havne’t been rejected yet.
So I’m trying a new theme. Bunny tried the BtVS blog title theme. I’m trying just general entertainment quotes. Memorable quotes form books or movies I’ve seen/ready. I cheat a bit sometimes though. (I love IMDB) Obviously the last entry did not follow this theme, but the one before did. As does this one. I’d think this one is pretty easy to recognize.
People are welcome to take a guess at the quotes sources. We’ll see how long this goes.
Bunny, sorry I didn’t get your call last night, but here’s the 411 as is:
The interview felt really good. The VP I interviewed with is who I’d be working w/ the most, and she seemed awesome. She also seemed very excited about me. She said “I want “Joe” to meet the person I want to hire, can you meet with him tomorrow?” So I’m meeting with “Joe” today at 11:30. I hope I hope I hope. I don’t think I can deal with the disappointment today. Friday is casual day here at work, but since I’m meeting Joe I dressed up. So I know everyone here at work is pretty sure what’s going on. I just so want to come back from this meeting this morning and tell the boss “Here’s my 2 weeks notice, I’m taking the rest of the day off. See you monday.” Then I want him to turn around and say, don’t bother coming back in on monday, in which I’ll remind him that I will expect my 2 weeks pay anyway. Aren’t they required to do that?
I hope I’m not jinxing this by talking about it so much. I feel like i’m just setting myself up for disappointment. Fortunatly my desk is wood. I’ll be knocking a lot. I”m not generally an overly superstitious person, but it can’t hurt to ask for a bit of luck.
I think I’ll go refine my letter of resignation.