Ok bonny, I have to say that for some reason I was kinda expecting some other shoe to drop with this very sad situation - I was expecting someone, somehow, to be a jackhole. And now that it has happened, I can just say how glad I am that the jackholery is adjacent to the people actually involved. It sucks for anyone to have to be touched by it, but it isn't inside any of the protagonists, so to speak.
Mal: We're still flying. Simon: That's not much. Mal: It's enough.
'Serenity'
Spike's Bitches 48: I Say, We Go Out There, and Kick a Little Demon Ass.
[NAFDA] Spike-centric discussion. Lusty, lewd (only occasionally crude), risqué (and frisqué), bawdy (Oh, lawdy!), flirty ('cuz we're purty), raunchy talk inside. Caveat lector.
WindSparrow - Sep 29, 2014 5:40:05 pm PDT #13488 of 30002
Love is stronger than death and harder than sorrow. Those who practice it are fierce like the light of stars traveling eons to pierce the night.
beekaytee - Sep 29, 2014 10:57:10 pm PDT #13489 of 30002
Compassionately intolerant
Andi, the company owner said what you said.
I actually expected a negative grief response, which might still come, but that I could totally understand.
This. Seriously, I can't remember the last time I was so sideswiped by someone else's behavior. In that puppy-tilts-its-head, bzuh? sort of way.
I've regained my wits and will pretty much do what erika said, if he comes back to me.
I pretty much live by Bruce Springsteen's eulogy for Harry Chapin which, in paraphrase, goes, "He did what he could for the other guy and always had a clear eye on the wicked ways of the world."
This one snuck up on me. I may need to have my eyes checked.
erikaj - Sep 30, 2014 7:42:21 am PDT #13490 of 30002
Always Anti-fascist!
It's mot a bad thing that you don't expect people to be that opportunistic and horrible.
Toddson - Sep 30, 2014 7:46:46 am PDT #13491 of 30002
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
You know, it often seems that, no matter how low you set the bar, someone will find a way to get under it. Kind of a moral limbo.
EpicTangent - Sep 30, 2014 7:48:02 am PDT #13492 of 30002
Why isn't everyone pelting me with JOY, dammit? - Zenkitty
You know, it often seems that, no matter how low you set the bar, someone will find a way to get under it. Kind of a moral limbo.
NATLBSB
Toddson - Sep 30, 2014 8:55:21 am PDT #13493 of 30002
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
um ... huh?
Scrappy - Sep 30, 2014 8:56:51 am PDT #13494 of 30002
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
Not a tag line but should be, Toddson.
Toddson - Sep 30, 2014 8:58:47 am PDT #13495 of 30002
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
aha! Thank you!
Strix - Sep 30, 2014 9:22:56 am PDT #13496 of 30002
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
sj, much -ma headed your way.
bonny, I would be at once shocked, not shocked and pissed. It was a phone call, not a F2F, right, because I'm sure your face was just like "AGOG!!"
People can be so shitty. Always trying to get something for nothing.
beekaytee - Sep 30, 2014 9:52:31 am PDT #13497 of 30002
Compassionately intolerant
Totally NATLBSB! Moral low bar...like lower than the coffee room worms in MIB, low.
And THEN, to add to the stress, my on/off again nemesis at the pet care company quit...ish. He will see us through the holidays.
Instead of falling apart, I actually came up with some really good suggestions for the owner...some of which could include helping the fellow not actually quit.
FINALLY, I have the opportunity to do a full organizational assessment and to guide the company into the future it's been struggling with for some time.
I'm super appreciative that the owner did not flail, and she DID take responsibility for a HUGE mistake she made that helped create this outcome.
It's like a fever breaking.
Which is good because Cagney is limping and I could use less stress in order to deal with that.