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.

Oh, Consuela! I'm afraid they're unclass acts all the way through and through. I'd set something on fire in your honor, if it would help in any way.

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.

Seriously, I look forward to hearing about all the phone calls you get after you leave, when they realize that NO ONE, including the person they hired, knows how to do your job.

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

Leave voice mails and emails with each one, that you are no longer affiliated, and refer each and every one to your Nemisis, clear your desk and walk out the door. Tender your resignation by email. They're the unprofessional ones, they're assholes, they've treated you shamefully throughout the process despite your spirit of giving them the benefit of the doubt, and the sooner you're shed of them the better. Don't spare another thought for them. And realistically, your clients and projects are no longer your responsibility--you haven't abandoned them, they've been forcibly taken from you. Run far, run fast, don't look back. You're well out of an environment that's been toxic for a while.

That house is exquisite, Allyson. Congratulations to you and Kristen. And Happy Birthday to you!

Happy Birthday to Noah and Grace! And Happy Birthday to K-Bug!

Seriously, I look forward to hearing about all the phone calls you get after you leave, when they realize that NO ONE, including the person they hired, knows how to do your job.

Nobody will be doing my job. Which will be even more entertaining.

God, the next two weeks are going to suck.

I'd like to put your bosses and my bosses in a room together and unleash the hounds of hell.

I'm really sorry that acting like a professional is so difficult for them.