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    [LAME] Good News Everyone . . .

    . . . you're all out of a job

    Or words to that effect greeted me this morning. Fortunately, I get a nice severance (which was in my contract). So, next three months I get to spend on the beach.
    Christianity: The belief that a cosmic Jewish Zombie who was his own father can make you live forever if you symbolically eat his flesh and telepathically tell him you accept him as your master, so he can remove an evil force from your soul that is present in humanity because a rib-woman was convinced by a talking snake to eat from a magical tree...
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  • #2
    My severance runs out next month

    guess I best start looking for a job... And I find that when I'm home and bored I spend more money. Wifey isn't happy with me right now.
    Monkey!!!

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    • #3
      How long did this gig last. A half year?

      Would you go into another start-up with this guy, if asked?
      I came upon a barroom full of bad Salon pictures in which men with hats on the backs of their heads were wolfing food from a counter. It was the institution of the "free lunch" I had struck. You paid for a drink and got as much as you wanted to eat. For something less than a rupee a day a man can feed himself sumptuously in San Francisco, even though he be a bankrupt. Remember this if ever you are stranded in these parts. ~ Rudyard Kipling, 1891

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      • #4
        Hopefully you spend the next three months sending out resumes...

        At least in the morning. Then hit the beach

        -Arrian
        grog want tank...Grog Want Tank... GROG WANT TANK!

        The trick isn't to break some eggs to make an omelette, it's convincing the eggs to break themselves in order to aspire to omelettehood.

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        • #5
          Sorry to hear that Che ... but congrats on the paid vacation
          At least it was at the right time of the year
          <Reverend> IRC is just multiplayer notepad.
          I like your SNOOPY POSTER! - While you Wait quote.

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          • #6
            Three months severance ain't half bad. Good luck finding more work in this economy though.
            John Brown did nothing wrong.

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            • #7
              If you can stretch that package a few more months until you get your bloated Congressional salary, you should be set
              "The DPRK is still in a state of war with the U.S. It's called a black out." - Che explaining why orbital nightime pictures of NK show few lights. Seriously.

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              • #8
                Originally posted by DanS
                How long did this gig last. A half year?

                Would you go into another start-up with this guy, if asked?
                Not even, twenty three and a half weeks.

                I'm not really sure I'd go in with them again. They had a great idea, but they were really clueless on how to implement it, and the person they chose to lead the project, was a scatter brain with a very strong personality. Their recruiter knew the tech lead personally and told them, he's the best programmer he knows, but DO NOT let him lead the project. In fact, that was what I was originally supposed to be brought on board for, was to lead the project. But this persona has the ability to talk up such a storm that soon you're either completely baffled and agree because you're out of your depth or you just get tired and give in.

                The immediate, problem, however, is that most of the investors were real estate people, and they're taking a hammering and don't have the capital to invest anymore.

                They said they'd like to bring me back later and put me in charge of a design team if they can hang on.

                But I'm not unhappy being let go. I was unhappy I had to go into work, and I'm really feeling good. I'm going to dive into PHP and other internet technologies, so that in a few months, I can start freelancing, if I can. Also, go to the beach, go to the Keys, and go to the Everglades. Plus, there's my Congressional campaign (seriously, though).

                Kudos to Bunnygrrl. She came in to the office with me a few weeks back, and the CFO got along with her so well that he felt terrible about trying to save the company money by looking to fire me with cause. It's a bad business decision, but who am I to argue.
                Christianity: The belief that a cosmic Jewish Zombie who was his own father can make you live forever if you symbolically eat his flesh and telepathically tell him you accept him as your master, so he can remove an evil force from your soul that is present in humanity because a rib-woman was convinced by a talking snake to eat from a magical tree...

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                • #9
                  Shamless exploitation of your wife Che, Shameless
                  "The DPRK is still in a state of war with the U.S. It's called a black out." - Che explaining why orbital nightime pictures of NK show few lights. Seriously.

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                  • #10
                    What, he's trying to be a Congressman. He's practicing now .
                    “I give you a new commandment, that you love one another. Just as I have loved you, you also should love one another. By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.”
                    - John 13:34-35 (NRSV)

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                    • #11
                      "The DPRK is still in a state of war with the U.S. It's called a black out." - Che explaining why orbital nightime pictures of NK show few lights. Seriously.

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                      • #12
                        Originally posted by Patroklos
                        Shamless exploitation of your wife Che, Shameless
                        No, I think she was wearing a sham . . . or was it a shawl?
                        Christianity: The belief that a cosmic Jewish Zombie who was his own father can make you live forever if you symbolically eat his flesh and telepathically tell him you accept him as your master, so he can remove an evil force from your soul that is present in humanity because a rib-woman was convinced by a talking snake to eat from a magical tree...

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                        • #13
                          You Americans really do seem to be in the sh*t at the moment...
                          Speaking of Erith:

                          "It's not twinned with anywhere, but it does have a suicide pact with Dagenham" - Linda Smith

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                          • #14
                            That happens when you pour hundreds of billions of dollars into a bubble. And we're doing it again, hence the skyrocketing rise in the prices of commodities.
                            Christianity: The belief that a cosmic Jewish Zombie who was his own father can make you live forever if you symbolically eat his flesh and telepathically tell him you accept him as your master, so he can remove an evil force from your soul that is present in humanity because a rib-woman was convinced by a talking snake to eat from a magical tree...

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                            • #15
                              We are hardly the ones driving up commodities.
                              "The DPRK is still in a state of war with the U.S. It's called a black out." - Che explaining why orbital nightime pictures of NK show few lights. Seriously.

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