Lord, Hec, that's AWFUL. Fuck them. On to better things. Or at least different things.
Tracy: Well-- That call -- That call means you just murdered me. Mal: No, son. You murdered yourself. I just carried the bullet a while.
'The Message'
Natter 57 Varieties
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
§ ita § - Mar 11, 2008 11:16:23 am PDT #4317 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Amy - Mar 11, 2008 11:41:01 am PDT #4318 of 10001
Because books.
People are ASSHATS. I'm so sorry. {{{Hec and JZ}}}
P.M. Marc - Mar 11, 2008 11:49:16 am PDT #4319 of 10001
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
Those ASSHATS.
I... GRR.
HULK SMASH.
Ginger - Mar 11, 2008 11:50:08 am PDT #4320 of 10001
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
That sucks, Hec. Her employers are deeply stupid.
Scrappy - Mar 11, 2008 11:59:10 am PDT #4321 of 10001
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
Aw, jz. How COULD they be so incredibly stupid?
Theodosia - Mar 11, 2008 12:03:08 pm PDT #4322 of 10001
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"
I can't imagine JZ being considered other than friendly and supercompetent, but then there are enough asshatted bosses out there in the world that I suppose you have to run into one now and then. My deepest sympathies and all the quick-get-a-great-new-job-MA that I can send across country!
Cashmere - Mar 11, 2008 12:04:57 pm PDT #4323 of 10001
Now tagless for your comfort.
{{{JZ}}} That's just fucking awful. The asshats need a shrift kick in the nuts.
Lee - Mar 11, 2008 12:13:27 pm PDT #4324 of 10001
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
What they all said, Hec and JZ. Please let me know if I can do anything, including a nice boozy brunch on me this weekend.
Or maybe kneecapping her ex boss.
I could be good with the kneecapping thing.
Amy - Mar 11, 2008 12:17:10 pm PDT #4325 of 10001
Because books.
Perkins would do it, too. I've seen her get mad.
JZ - Mar 11, 2008 12:22:11 pm PDT #4326 of 10001
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
Thank you.
There was no warning other than one meeting last Friday -- which scared the shit out of me, but seemed more like a "Here's what's wrong and here's how to fix it so all goes well from here on out" meeting; so I spent the weekend talking it out with Hec and coming up with all sorts of coping-and-moving-forward stratagems and ways to re-attack the way I thought of my job and the people I supported and ways to make it good from here on out, and it turns out that none of it mattered.
In the exit interview, they said that both executives had had numerous conversations with me about major issues with my work, but I honestly don't remember any. I just don't. How could I have missed a Come to Jesus or Face the Inferno message? How could I have been so stupid? What the fuck was I missing?