[geeks] employment(and the rehash there of)

[Andrew Weiss]

<JOB RANT>
Heh... I just asked my CEO who the eff he thought he was.... he was 
goading me about some of the crap that's going down and he's lying 
about.  Telling us the landlord loves us... yesterday I had papers 
served on me [their back-rent+eviction hearing notice] (the other guy in 
the office was mumbling ineptly and wouldn't take them), and noticed 
that the last person served papers was listed in the exhibit... so I 
made a photocopy for my records knowing the guy took my name too.  
Mumbly guy snitches so now $CEO's trying to see if I'm up to 
something... calling me at night... then later asking what I was doing 
at work when he came in ... my answer was e-mail... (meant to be... "you 
know, the usual"...), but he seems to get all suspicious asking me what 
e-mail this and that, then having the nerve to imply that I can't do 
personal e-mail on company time... hehehe I AM IT here... , and I MAKE 
the e-mail policy,  and I've never been accosted about something like 
this (well once, but that was when I was $chemist working at ${pharma 
company}.  I also multi-task fine, so I have all my e-mail accounts open 
all the time, but that's beside the point.

The guy literally had the nerve to sit us all down last week and say we 
were being turned into forced contract status as of that Friday, that 
our healthcare was cancelled retroactively as of the first of the 
month... (it was like the 12th.)  Needless to say I had an emergency 
ingrown toenail removal today (no it wasn't actually cancelled because 
they didn't get around to it... lucky me).

So of course he's going on about this and that like I should be grateful 
that I was the only one getting paid and that they paid for my education 
and I needed to initiate more... and he was checking to see if I had 
done anything with the moronic project he had just given me with no 
focus whatsoever... Well I answered everything honestly... but of course 
at some point he decided he had no point and hung up on me when I was 
basically saying that I shouldn't have to worry about whether my 
paycheck is coming in or not and that I didn't need to be grateful for 
that.

Either which way I've had enough of the lies and the sub-legal 
dealings .... so I just blasted my "Take this Job and Shove it" while 
driving home and applied for unemployment when I got there.  Lovely 
letter they gave me gives me the perfect excuse... they technically laid 
me off...but were "prepared to retain my services on a per diem basis 
and that I should be working on a pre-arranged or as-needed basis and 
was to invoice them"...heheh good luck for me when it comes time to 
actually claim... nope enough BS.
</JOB RANT>
Andrew

P.S. Too bad I'm not in VA... we could make a rather scary admin duo eh 
Dan?  Anyhow I should have plenty O' board tradin time soon...  It's 
time to get red-zeppelin.crimson-assurance.net up and running eh?... :-)

On Thursday, February 21, 2002, at 11:07 PM, Big Endian wrote:

>> On Thu, Feb 21, 2002 at 07:52:17PM -0800, David Passmore wrote:
>>>  As bad as your job may be, my advice is to keep it. Unless you have 
>>> Top
>>>  Secret clearance or a CISSP, your options in this area are going to 
>>> be
>>>  extremely limited for the time being. Especially if you don't have a 
>>> degree,
>>>  as much as I hate to say it.
>>
>> I'd have to agree with David.  Job > No Job.
>
> I agree that Job > !Job but Job !> Nervous breakdown.  I *NEED* 
> something else or I will end up either in prison or a mental ward.  I 
> nearly came to blows w/ my stupid manager at work today.
>
> daniel
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