Also, I could have just said, Sweetie, I am so sorry. Which, besides being indignant on your behalf, is how I feel.
We gotta go to the crappy town where I'm the hero!
Wash ,'Jaynestown'
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.
beekaytee - Mar 11, 2008 12:52:31 pm PDT #4346 of 10001
Compassionately intolerant
juliana - Mar 11, 2008 12:54:55 pm PDT #4347 of 10001
I’d be lying if I didn’t say that I miss them all tonight…
{{{{{JZ}}}}} I have procured a nice bottle of wine, which I will bring over tonight, and then we can weep and rail or distract ourselves with fluffy Mounties. Also, perhaps, food.
Burrell - Mar 11, 2008 12:56:49 pm PDT #4348 of 10001
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!
I'm so sorry JZ. It's not you, nothing you could have done in 3 months to lead to firing, as everyone else has noted. And while yeah, it'll work out eventually, I know it must feel like shit right now.
P.M. Marc - Mar 11, 2008 1:00:12 pm PDT #4349 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
So totally not you, honey. As everyone else said.
Amy - Mar 11, 2008 1:02:47 pm PDT #4350 of 10001
Because books.
when put through my GoogleBullshitDescrambler (TM)
And that happens more often than you might think. My dad got fired from a job because the bossman's daughter quit her job and wanted to come back to their company, and they needed the room in the budget. So.
Don't hate on yourself, JZ. You *did* do a great thing for your family, finding a good new position. It's *so* not your fault that the people there are ridiculous and unfeeling morons.
§ ita § - Mar 11, 2008 1:08:35 pm PDT #4351 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Yeah, JZ. This is not how they measure adulthood. This really isn't it. Right now take advantages of the kindnesses of the javachiks and the Perkins and the julianas and all the other -istas. Time enough for a new game plan later.
tommyrot - Mar 11, 2008 1:11:41 pm PDT #4352 of 10001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
In his post “Patterns,” Oliver Sacks wrote about the repetitive geometric nature of the visual effects experienced by some migraine sufferers — “fortification patterns,” zig-zags, swirls.
In his book “Migraine,” first published in 1970, Dr. Sacks presented a series of paintings depicting the visual phenomena various patients experienced during migraine auras. The paintings, he wrote, “are attempts at literal reproductions of the phenomena; they are not meant to be symbolic.”
This slide show contains a selection of these paintings, provided courtesy of The Migraine Action Association.
sarameg - Mar 11, 2008 1:13:58 pm PDT #4353 of 10001
Ah, damn, JZ.
Susan W. - Mar 11, 2008 1:16:29 pm PDT #4354 of 10001
Good Trouble and Righteous Fights
They had a gem and they didn't have the patience required to see you shine. Fuckers.
t points and nods
Scrappy - Mar 11, 2008 1:17:48 pm PDT #4355 of 10001
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
Speaking as an HR person, it is the company's job to to make the new hire comfortable and to make their expectations clear. THEY failed, not you.