Happy Birthday, Noah and Grace and K-Bug!

Allyson, what a gorgeous house! May you both be extremely happy there!

Holy CRAP, Consuela, what utter shitheads. I wouldn't resign - they've fired you, you deserve to get your unemployment. I say, go in, don't do another lick of work, get your stuff and leave, and let them discover you're gone the way you discovered you didn't have a job anymore - after the fact. What assholes.

When I got let go from a job, I was offered two weeks to finish stuff, or the same two weeks' pay for not coming back. Obviously, I didn't go back -- except I did go in for a couple of hours the next day to make a big list of what I was doing and the status of things, which frankly was MORE than enough for those fuckers. (But of course, the people I didn't want to leave hanging were not the fuckers.)

ION, I have an appointment to get my hair cut at a new barbershop here. It's a "Gentlemen's Cut and Shave Shop." I've never had a shave from a barber (you know, with a straight razor). Should I do it? Will it be fun?

Getting shaved seems like it would be cool.

IOON, a picture I just shared on Facebook reminds me of another reason to be pissed off about Clarence Thomas -- his interracial marriage would have been illegal 50 years ago.

Oh, Consuela, what a bunch of tools they are. But I agree that you should not resign--you deserve unemployment.

Sadly, just not going back into the office would be unprofessional. I have projects & clients that I can't just leave hanging.

Wait, what? They've told you you're fired and they expect you to keep working? It's your company that's left your clients hanging, not you! It's their responsibility to put the pieces back together.

Can you dump it all on your nemesis's lap and then take out a freakin' billboard offering your consultant services right outside the offices of clients you actually like, she asks sweetly.

Can you dump it all on your nemesis's lap and then take out a freakin' billboard offering your consultant services right outside the offices of clients you actually like, she asks sweetly.

We are all shifty, vengeful people.

I love us.

Consuela,

I think you need to do what you feel is your obligation to clients and those who might be in a position to hire you in the future. Anything else you should feel no obligation to: including the needs of your current employer beyond the absolute minimum. Didn't you barely get an extension of your contract anyway?

Is it feasible for you to work there until you are officially let go? Some of you are made of stronger stuff than me: I couldn't emotionally deal with wanting to murder the fuckers every day. I'd need to bail as soon as I felt it professionally viable to do so.

I didn't get fired. My contract is up at the end of April, roughly; what happened today is that I found out I wasn't going to be hired into a full-time position. I just told my boss my last day will be April 10.

And both the hiring manager & my boss claim that I wasn't as competitive as the person they chose, because the position was revised so much. No one will be managing the program I've been running for six years.