#1 2008-06-17 00:31:58
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#2 2008-06-17 00:40:38
God, man, even I'm not as idle as this, and I'm unemployed.
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#3 2008-06-17 00:45:37
George Orr wrote:
God, man, even I'm not as idle as this, and I'm unemployed.
Unemployed?!
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#4 2008-06-17 00:51:45
sofaking wrote:
George Orr wrote:
God, man, even I'm not as idle as this, and I'm unemployed.
Unemployed?!
Very recently, and probably temporarily.
Don't worry, I'm still eating, sitting in air conditioning and amusing myself online (obviously)--it's like a vacation where you never have to get out of your pjs.
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#5 2008-06-17 00:59:48
Yeah, it's not that exciting. Neither am I.
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#6 2008-06-17 01:00:32
George Orr wrote:
sofaking wrote:
George Orr wrote:
God, man, even I'm not as idle as this, and I'm unemployed.
Unemployed?!
Don't worry, I'm still eating, sitting in air conditioning and amusing myself online (obviously)--it's like a vacation where you never have to get out of your pjs.
Welcome to my world.
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#7 2008-06-17 01:01:04
George Orr wrote:
Don't worry, I'm still eating, sitting in air conditioning and amusing myself online (obviously)--it's like a vacation where you never have to get out of your pjs.
Downsized or finally gave those sniveling swine a piece of your mind?
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#8 2008-06-17 01:05:25
I am accused of being boring for posting a stupid visual pun.
Yet - we have sidebanners of cats dressed in costumes. I repeat, cats dressed in costumes.
I protest.
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#9 2008-06-17 01:20:43
sigmoid freud wrote:
I am accused of being boring for posting a stupid visual pun.
Yet - we have sidebanners of cats dressed in costumes. I repeat, cats dressed in costumes.
The photographs of the cats in costumes adhere to the most exacting standards of High-Street quality. We have run them by focus group after focus group and know them to be precisely what the demanding readership of this web site want.
A fine example of the exacting standards demanded by the readers of High Street.
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#10 2008-06-17 02:19:30
sigmoid freud wrote:
I am accused of being boring for posting a stupid visual pun.
Yet - we have sidebanners of cats dressed in costumes. I repeat, cats dressed in costumes.
I protest.
I have some great spice rubs for barbecue I could share..
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#11 2008-06-17 02:40:22
There are a dozen semi-decent, low-humiliation jobs circulated around High-Street members. I must have George's this week. I'll give it up if I can have someone else's next week. It's like a commune of...hmm...retards. Now, what would that be...?
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#12 2008-06-17 10:21:25
choad wrote:
Downsized or finally gave those sniveling swine a piece of your mind?
Neither. Without getting into too much boring detail, the relo (which was Husband™'s) did not work out as expected--we all thought I could work remotely, and they tried like hell for four months to make it work, but in the end it just didn't. I have no hard feelings; they really bent over backwards for me.
I was bummed, because I was in the catbird seat at that job; seniority, benefits, $, not to mention the ability to do pretty much whatever I pleased whenever I saw fit. I was further bummed because I've been out of the job-hunting circus for a decade, and that was a large psychological speed bump.
However, I am doing it...mostly online. I have a small financial cushion and I am not worried about becoming an earner again--I'm much more worried about finding a good fit jobwise.
*sigh* I fear my old work routine of 68.2% goofing off is probably gone forever.
On the plus side, we are out of the paved, baking, overgrown-suburb pisshole that is DFW forever.
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#13 2008-06-17 11:20:35
Georgi wrote:
On the plus side, we are out of the paved, baking, overgrown-suburb pisshole that is DFW forever.
But you're still in Texas, right? The job market there must be better than California in any case. A couple of years ago the want ads here were a separate booklet inserted into the Sunday paper. Now they take up only part of one page of the classifieds. Want to work nights and weekends at Wal-Mart? Stand in line.
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#14 2008-06-17 12:35:36
phreddy wrote:
Georgi wrote:
On the plus side, we are out of the paved, baking, overgrown-suburb pisshole that is DFW forever.
But you're still in Texas, right? The job market there must be better than California in any case.
I don't know much about CA but I expect so. In San Antonio the unemployment rate is around 4%--quite a bit higher than it was under our last Democrat President, but still hearteningly low, and less than the national average.
As I said, I'm less concerned about finding a paying desk than I am about finding a job that will not make me too miserable for eight hours out of my day.
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#15 2008-06-17 22:09:25
George Orr wrote:
On the plus side, we are out of the paved, baking, overgrown-suburb pisshole that is DFW forever.
It's not so bad, we live in Carrollton now. Try living in Houston sometime.
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#16 2008-06-17 23:36:27
"Living in Houston". Isn't that an oxymoron?
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#17 2008-06-17 23:57:39
Baywolfe wrote:
It's not so bad, we live in Carrollton now. Try living in Houston sometime.
Carrollton is quite nice. I've never been to Houston, but even my ex-co-workers who lived in Houston never had anything nice to say about the place.
But compared to NE Texas and the Mett-Tro-Plex, San Antonio is practically Heaven.
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#18 2008-06-18 03:39:23
George Orr wrote:
sofaking wrote:
Unemployed?!
Very recently, and probably temporarily.
Don't worry, I'm still eating, sitting in air conditioning and amusing myself online (obviously)--it's like a vacation where you never have to get out of your pjs.
Enjoy it! I did... for the first couple years anyway. However, I'm very happy to be a wage slave again. The whole plan to find a rich beautiful woman to support me has been placed on hold.
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