I thought in CA they could fire without reason.
CA is an at-will state, but it doesn't mean some people won't be ass-weasels and try to make you quit instead. Plus, I think if someone is just let go, they can file for unemployment, but if they quit or are fired for cause (hence a paper trail), they cannot file. I think.
Allyson, I'm really sorry your cow-orkers are such asshats.
In happier news, the Muppet discussion was timely - F.A.O. Schwartz is opening a Muppet Whatnot Factory! Muppet Whatnot Creator (Warning: Sound.) For $90, you can create your own Muppet! Awesome.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY, KATE P!!
Oh man, Kathy -- you really need a day off. Do not get yourself into the position of a friend of mine from college who literally threw herself down some stairs because she could not face another double shift of waitressing.
Happy Birthday, Kate!
I am worth 3K less than the college freshout they hired to take my office manager job while I put together their safety, doc review, symposium and a host of other processes.
No. As others already said, you are WORTH considerably more. That's what they want to pay you. Reminds me of when one of DH's boss pulled the same move on him. He quit and a month later found a job that paid him more than double their offer. Meanwhile he found out the consultants they hired to do only PART of his old job charged the company over $100,000. Which trust me was way more than they offered him.
Yeah, on Monday I'm going to ask my boss here at my office job if I can take the whole day on Tuesday off, and I'm also definitely going to be giving my notice at the law firm on Sunday. I'll help the lawyer out if he wants by putting a note up at the bookstore to see if anyone there is looking for a little extra cash (just about everyone there is good with people, which is what they want for the front desk at the firm).
Huh. Billy Beane, the A's general manager, has an op-ed piece in the NYTimes (coauthored with Newt Gingrich and John Kerry) advocating changes to the healthcare system similar to the stats revolution in baseball.
I do agree with him, and it's odd that insurance is so stats driven and healthcare isn't. I remember when Oregon first put together it's statewide healthcare program one of the things they did was to prioritize statistically where the least amount of money would have the greatest effect. (Which turned out to be treating bacterial based pneumonia. The cost/benefit there was the biggest bang for the buck.)
I heard on the news that Ted Kennedy is working on a massive universal healthcare bill, to be introduced early in the next Congress.
My job is kind of funny. I made what I think of as a pretty significant error, and no one seems to mind. Granted, it is the kind of error that results in a delay not a disaster, but still. I'm all ready to beat myself up, and everyone else is like, "Well, shit happens!" Um, OK...
That would be quite a legacy for Ted. Most probably the last major legislation he'd propose in his career.
The other day I was thinking about how much perception of Angelina Jolie has changed over the years.
Remember when she was the freaky girl with the knife collection, the vaguely skeevy relationship with Billy Bob, the incestuous nuzzling of her brother and the vial of blood around her neck?
Now she's the madonna of the world. Which no doubt annoys Madonna.
