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  • RainmanR Rainman

    OK.
    Call her at 3:00 am. Whisper softly and ask whether she's had her brake lines checked.
    Quietly hang up,

    The next night, call her again. Breathe heavily.
    Quietly hang up.

    Oh, almost forgot. Don't use your own phone. Steal a colleague's for a couple of days.

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    George K
    wrote on last edited by
    #37

    @Rainman said in Mutiny:

    Steal a colleague's whom you hate for a couple of days.

    FIFY.

    "Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08

    The saying, "Lite is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.

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    • George KG George K

      @Rainman said in Mutiny:

      Steal a colleague's whom you hate for a couple of days.

      FIFY.

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      Rainman
      wrote on last edited by Rainman
      #38

      @George-K said in Mutiny:

      @Rainman said in Mutiny:

      Steal a colleague's whom you hate for a couple of days.

      FIFY.

      Um. Edited to add George's post which otherwise disappears.

      "Steal a colleague's whom you hate for a couple of days."
      OK. Edited again. What George said is above. What I said is below.
      As Jon would say: "Jeesus" Wait! I just added the Jeesus part. Not sure if that screws things up even more. WTF. George didn't say anything, either did I. This is all a dream.

      Seems that might be the easy part!

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      • Aqua LetiferA Aqua Letifer

        Well, somebody just fucked up.

        Last week, our VP told my boss that she's heard very serious allegations about the quality of my work by two other managers in the organization: another VP, and a Director. She mentioned these people by name. She said they have complaints and concerns about me.

        My manager followed up with both of these people. Not only did they completely disagree with my VP's assessment, they denied ever having these conversations, and were angered to hear that our VP was putting words in their mouth. They both offered to give my manager written statements supporting me if needed.

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        #39

        @Aqua-Letifer said in Mutiny:

        Well, somebody just fucked up.

        Well, maybe it is possible that there is someone at your company with the name Aqua-Lietfer in stead of Aqua-Leitfer

        Maybe they just got the wrong guy!!!

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        • taiwan_girlT taiwan_girl

          @Aqua-Letifer said in Mutiny:

          Well, somebody just fucked up.

          Well, maybe it is possible that there is someone at your company with the name Aqua-Lietfer in stead of Aqua-Leitfer

          Maybe they just got the wrong guy!!!

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          Aqua Letifer
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          #40

          @taiwan_girl said in Mutiny:

          @Aqua-Letifer said in Mutiny:

          Well, somebody just fucked up.

          Well, maybe it is possible that there is someone at your company with the name Aqua-Lietfer in stead of Aqua-Leitfer

          Maybe they just got the wrong guy!!!

          Yeah that's it. ๐Ÿ˜†๐Ÿ˜

          Please love yourself.

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          • Aqua LetiferA Offline
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            Aqua Letifer
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            #41

            Imminent now.

            Our dept head has been talking about making two new hires for months now: a director position, and a grunt. We've been asking since forever what the job description of the director position was going to beโ€”oh, she was still "working that out."

            We saw it today, when it was sent to the whole company. Half his job description is my current one.

            They put out the second job ad out today. Did not clear it or even talk about it with my boss, or any of us remaining. That job description matches his main responsibilities, and my other half.

            My boss attended the senior leadership meeting today, like normal. He said it was a very strange vibe. CEO was wondering aloud how big they really needed to be, and what was the right size for the organization?

            I probably have anywhere between a week to a month left.

            Please love yourself.

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            • MikM Offline
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              #42

              Could be a bluff. You have other work anyway, right?

              โ€œI am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.โ€ ~Winston S. Churchill

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              • MikM Mik

                Could be a bluff. You have other work anyway, right?

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                Aqua Letifer
                wrote on last edited by Aqua Letifer
                #43

                @Mik said in Mutiny:

                Could be a bluff. You have other work anyway, right?

                Already sent in their first invoice and am working on project 2.

                And my boss and I are actively getting 2 more things off the ground. We're about a week away.

                Also have almost a year's worth of savings.

                I've been preparing for this shit since January.

                Still, though, nothing's guaranteed. So, it's stressful.

                Please love yourself.

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                • Aqua LetiferA Offline
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                  Aqua Letifer
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                  #44

                  Judgment day cometh. One way or another it all ends Tuesday, thank God. (Also, I hate these fucking stories. I'm so tired of them.)

                  I'm tight with the President's EA. She's an editor for some DC publications so we talk word shop a lot.

                  She was asked by the President to do some editorial thing involving four Important People, and I was to promote it. She sent it to me, I got it ready. Department head asked to see it. She then sent me a seriously shitty email: said she was confused why I even thought this would be a good idea, and she questions my judgment as to why I would do this. She then proceeds to shit all over the EA's work, told me it sucks, my promoting it means I don't know my business, and that I needed to straighten it out with the EA.

                  I called the EA up, and while on the phone I forwarded her that email. EA lost her shit and said she'd take care of this. EA called my boss first to get the story straight. My boss, who was copied on the emails, confirmed it. He actually had to talk the EA down from bitching this woman out. It came close. They were on the phone for an hour.

                  EA finally reached out, was cordial, and didn't throw me under the bus. But dept head knew what I did anyway.

                  She emails me. No subject line: "DID YOU TELL HER WHAT I SAID"

                  I quoted her instructions to reach back out to the EA. Said I did.

                  Department head called up my boss and screamed at him. I mean literally, shrill screams. My boss had to tell her how inappropriate that was. She emails me back and we start a long email chain, tries for some reason to make me admit I had concerns about the EA thing, too. I denied I did. So now I have to get it ready for promotion "properly" whatever the fuck that means, and get my work cleared with the department head. She's doing this to be able to find fault with it and trump up incompetence charges against me.

                  I thought about this a long time. Our HR consultant headhunted for this woman, so her agency gets paid out by staffing the department head. That's why HR is so keen on supporting her. And the President is in Chapter 11 on fucks to give. If they come at me for gross incompetence, that story would be backed by my department head, HR, and the President. I'd have a huge uphill legal battle just to get unemployment. They are indeed stupid enough to fight me on it, and I can't pay for a lawyer.

                  So, I called the EA up and said I'm thinking about resigning, and just wanted to talk to her boss one last time. Not as an ultimatum or anything close to that. Just to explain the spot I appear to be in. To be able to say I gave it a shot.

                  She reached out to him. His response to the EA: "Is this an HR issue? Because if it is, perhaps it would be best if this were first addressed to HR."

                  EA and I had a long conversation. A lot of people have been pissed off by this woman. EA said hang in there by Tuesday, when the President gets back from vacation. (Must be nice, I'm working 56 hrs a week right now.) EA is going to try to get other leadership on board for a 90-day review of the department head's performance. She said this kind of thing has happened a couple of times in the past. It's very slow going within the department at first, but when others are affected, things move quickly. So just sit tight, wait until Tuesday. But meanwhile I have to prepare myself for the department head's next move when I "share my work." I have a plan for that but it's so ass-bananas and emotionally draining I don't even want to get into it. This ridiculous post is long enough. So I'll set myself up for failure and wait for Tuesday.

                  Then again, Maryland officially opens back up on Friday so the decision could be made for me by then anyway.

                  Holy hell. What a mess.

                  Please love yourself.

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                  • 89th8 Offline
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                    89th
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                    #45

                    And to think, you work at a bakery.

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                    • 89th8 89th

                      And to think, you work at a bakery.

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                      Aqua Letifer
                      wrote on last edited by
                      #46

                      @89th said in Mutiny:

                      And to think, you work at a bakery.

                      That would make the above story less crazy, I think, not more.

                      Seriously and I mean seriously wish I did right now.

                      Please love yourself.

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                      • MikM Offline
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                        wrote on last edited by
                        #47

                        This is why.

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                        โ€œI am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.โ€ ~Winston S. Churchill

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                        • LuFins DadL Offline
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                          LuFins Dad
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                          #48

                          ๐Ÿฟ

                          The Brad

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                          • Aqua LetiferA Offline
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                            Aqua Letifer
                            wrote on last edited by
                            #49

                            ๐Ÿคฌ๐Ÿ’ฉ๐Ÿบ๐Ÿคท๐Ÿ˜ณ๐Ÿ’ฅ๐Ÿบ๐Ÿ–•๐Ÿคฌ๐Ÿ’ฅ๐Ÿคฏ๐Ÿบ๐Ÿบ๐Ÿบ๐Ÿ–•๐Ÿบ๐Ÿบ๐Ÿบ๐Ÿ–•๐Ÿบ๐Ÿ™ƒ๐Ÿบ๐Ÿคฎ๐Ÿบ๐Ÿบ๐Ÿบ

                            Please love yourself.

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                            • MikM Offline
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                              Note the preponderance of beers....

                              โ€œI am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.โ€ ~Winston S. Churchill

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                                Used to work with a DON that was a pretty tyrant. She was driving home one day, when a five foot watershed crawled from under her seat and said hello.

                                Nobody knew how the snake got there...

                                โ€œCry havoc and let slip the DOGE of war!โ€

                                Those who cheered as J-6 American prisoners were locked in solitary for 18 months without trial, now suddenly fight tooth and nail for foreign terroristsโ€™ "due process". โ€” Buck Sexton

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                                • Aqua LetiferA Offline
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                                  Aqua Letifer
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                                  #52

                                  Okay so fuck it, I'm quitting.

                                  Please love yourself.

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                                  • 89th8 Offline
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                                    89th
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                                    #53

                                    Time to draft up your exit shenanigans strategy.

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                                    • 89th8 89th

                                      Time to draft up your exit shenanigans strategy.

                                      Aqua LetiferA Offline
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                                      Aqua Letifer
                                      wrote on last edited by
                                      #54

                                      @89th said in Mutiny:

                                      Time to draft up your exit shenanigans strategy.

                                      I already spoke to my boss about the shenanigans. I really don't know what I'm going to do. It changes completely depending on my mood.

                                      Please love yourself.

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                                        Copper
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                                        #55

                                        Pretend that you already quit.

                                        Then look back on it.

                                        Hindsight is 20/20

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