Either way, assholes.
Also, I want brenda to be my negotiator if I ever have a decent job/offer.
Spike: Ladies. Come on in. Plenty of blood in the fridge, don't be shy. Dawn: You mean like, real blood? Spike: What do you think? Dawn: Mostly I think, 'Eew!'
'Potential'
Natter 71: Someone is wrong on the Internet
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.
Amy - Apr 01, 2013 4:08:39 pm PDT #16867 of 30001
Because books.
Jesse - Apr 01, 2013 4:08:56 pm PDT #16868 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Yeah, I have let myself get less than maybe I should have (and am currently doing that still!), but at least I haven't worked for assholes.
brenda m - Apr 01, 2013 4:09:15 pm PDT #16869 of 30001
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
Man, Maria. I wish I could get you into my company. I don't mean to be all Pollyanna-y but I am so glad to work somewhere where performance is genuinely valued. I mean, it's not perfect by any means, but if you work hard and show results people notice.
Amy, this is a family-owned dealership group. The dealer principal is a micromanaging, cranky SOB who treats all of his employees like crap.
Ah. That is exactly the kind of privately owned fiefdom hell I escaped from. I was so happy to get back to Big Corporate America with all its bureaucracy and policies and standards of behavior and stuff.
Maria - Apr 01, 2013 4:11:33 pm PDT #16870 of 30001
Not so nice is that I'm about to ruin a Friday morning for a bunch of people because of a series of unfortunate events and an upset foreign government. - shrift
The HR manager there is a friend of mine and we do a good job of separating friendship from work. She knows I'm moving back to PA. It says a lot when she told me she doesn't blame me and if there's anything she can do to help, just let her know. And it's ok by her if I somehow can't give a full two weeks' notice.
Telling, isn't it?
Dana - Apr 01, 2013 4:11:59 pm PDT #16871 of 30001
I haven't trusted science since I saw the film "Flubber."
No bereavement leave is just inhuman. I was bitter enough that though my company claims you can get up to a week, during the 18-month period where I had three family funerals (two grandparents and an aunt), I got four hours each time, which came out of my sick time. And none of these were local funerals, obviously.
Maria - Apr 01, 2013 4:13:37 pm PDT #16872 of 30001
Not so nice is that I'm about to ruin a Friday morning for a bunch of people because of a series of unfortunate events and an upset foreign government. - shrift
brenda, I'd jump in a heartbeat. My skills translate well from my current industry to yours.
brenda m - Apr 01, 2013 4:20:27 pm PDT #16873 of 30001
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
I thought that might be the case.
NoiseDesign - Apr 01, 2013 4:24:22 pm PDT #16874 of 30001
Our wings are not tired
I just don't understand how employers can treat their employees like that.
Maria - Apr 01, 2013 4:29:45 pm PDT #16875 of 30001
Not so nice is that I'm about to ruin a Friday morning for a bunch of people because of a series of unfortunate events and an upset foreign government. - shrift
ND, I had it so good at my previous two jobs and I didn't even know it. I miss my Chicagoland employer desperately.
brenda, I love you. This place is so fantastically awesome, and I thank whatever higher power there is on a daily basis that I stumbled across here 9 years ago.
Amy - Apr 01, 2013 4:31:34 pm PDT #16876 of 30001
Because books.
I thank whatever higher power there is on a daily basis that I stumbled across here 9 years ago.
As do we.
The "nine years" still freaks me out, though. Sara was just a few months old when I started posting here. What the hell.