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.
Kaylee: Is that him? Mal: That's the buffet table. Kaylee: Well how can we be sure, unless we question it?
'Shindig'
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.
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!
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.”
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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.
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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.
JZ - Mar 11, 2008 1:18:25 pm PDT #4356 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.
My old job for the beloved old boss is up again on the open listings page at UC--the guy who replaced me let himself be poached by another division. I could call them now and start tomorrow morning if I wanted. I just don't know if that's a good thing or a step backward (Hec will certainly say that it's about ten steps backward). It's very safe; it's just not very interesting, except for the boss.
There are a few other jobs posted that I think I might be qualified for, but now I'm stabbinated with self-doubt and saying, "No, no, not that one, I can't handle complex tasks, I'm not capable of taking initiative, they'll want to know why I'm back after such a short time away and I'll have to tell them that I failed in the outside world."
Matt the Bruins fan - Mar 11, 2008 1:20:51 pm PDT #4357 of 10001
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
JZ, could "distant" be a euphemism for "not flirty enough" used by some boss that's a refugee from the slap-and-tickle way businesses were run in the 1950s? While I can see you coming off as quiet and shy based on the sleep and comfort issues you mentioned, "distant" has overtones of steely disregard that I cannot imagine anyone thinking after even a couple minutes in your presence.