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14 December 2005

Ha HA! Right now I'm watching through the glass as my boss interviews my replacement. For real.→[More:]
Later we'll go off to our annual holiday luncheon and pretend it never happened, and this evening there's the office party somewhere in midtown. Oh frabjous day!

Yo jonmc, I dunno if your place of employ is still hiring, but I'll try and hit you with an email in the next couple days and see if my future lies in the world of publishing.

post by: Hugh Janus at: 10:02 | 33 comments

Freaky. How much longer are you going to be working there, Hugh?

posted by gaspode 14 December | 10:05

Hugh,

I'm not trying to make you feel better or anything, because this whole part of the deal is always lame, it's like watching your children squabble over the antiques from your hospice bed, Teeeee-dious! However, I get the impression that you kinda didn't have such a good time at that job. Of course looking for a new one is bullshit too, but at least you get to answer that "tell me one bad thing about you" question, where the answer is always "I work too hard" or "I sometimes get impatient with people who don't show an appropriate level of dedication" when you always want it to be "I steal and I'm constantly drunk on peach schnapps."

posted by Divine_Wino 14 December | 10:12

Wow, crazy. Sorry Hugh. I trust some ultra-violence will occur at the holiday luncheon? I mean, whaddya got to lose?

posted by tr33hggr 14 December | 10:13

You mean you aren't supposed to answer "I steal and I'm constantly drunk on peach schnapps?" No wonder it took me a while to find a job. ; )

posted by sisterhavana 14 December | 10:14

I have no idea, gaspode. They're stringing me along. The pay is still good, so I'll stick with it until I get a new one, but by this point there are paragraphs on the wall that I've been ignoring.

This numbers game ain't my bag anyway; I'm only a temp so I should be in a good position to bridge any gaps that come along.

Part of me wants to leave them hanging with loads of unfinished business, but my work ethic will probably have me play along at their game and actually train my replacement before I leave. Watch her fluorish before my eyes as she bleeds me of my expertise.

How the hell can you smell my breath all the way across the river, Divine_Wino?

posted by Hugh Janus 14 December | 10:15

Once, in college, my friend and I did a shot of peach schnapps every minute and timed ourselves to drunkenness.

Hugh, just keep rocking those hour-ish lunch breaks. Can't go wrong there.

posted by gaspode 14 December | 10:20

My job as an urchin actually requires me to constantly steal and be drunk on peach schnapps.

posted by PinkStainlessTail 14 December | 10:21

I'm in databases, not publishing, but go ahead dude. Also the new head of our department* is making all of us resubmit our resumes and "interview," again for jobs we already have. They did this in another department. Nobody's in any danger I'm told. But the whole thing is tedious and lumpy.

And mine is on Friday, when the farkakte strike is due to start. That "naked on a warm beach with a beer and loud music," I mentioned in the other thread sounds good. Maybe if I concentrate real hard...

*concetrates*

*wakes up at Orchard Beach in the Bronx wearing ladies underwear listening to Lawrence Welk*

Back to the drawing board..

*a tech ludicrousillionaire, who likes to wear an Indiana Jones type hat, and whom I once overheard telling someone "I spent my first night in the new place in Battery Park City. It's Great, but I'm not giving up either of the houses" Sheeseh.

posted by jonmc 14 December | 10:24

At the job interview for urchins I assume it goes:

"So you doooooo have rickets right? Good, good, everything looks great, listen you have to provide your own fingerless gloves and face soot, sorry we're a starup."

posted by Divine_Wino 14 December | 10:25

Startup. Jesus. Hugh berate me like you are always berating yourself for typos and fuckups please.

posted by Divine_Wino 14 December | 10:26

Publishing, databases, it's all the same, right?

Plus, I thought the strike starts tomorrow.

Jesus, Divine_Wino, that typo's so bad I feel pity, not anger. What the hell are you thinking?

posted by Hugh Janus 14 December | 10:32

Fuck, I'd leave 'em as soon as I had something lined up.

posted by brainwidth 14 December | 10:37

But first the ultraviolence, right? Or at least getting drunk and leering at some employees and complaining about the pay?

posted by tr33hggr 14 December | 10:41

Starup

posted by porpoise 14 December | 10:51

Jonmc: You're not the one he cornered at her desk for 20 min. before the office holiday party after mentioning me specifically by name during the company-wide meeting earlier that day to talk about what my specific questions were about where the company's headed.

I'm not worried (because I kick ass) but this whole "earning less than $20K a year and I have a fucking degree" thing is really pissing me off.

posted by TrishaLynn 14 December | 10:54

I have a fucking degree"

The give degrees in that now? Lectures are boring but the independent study is fun, I bet.

posted by jonmc 14 December | 10:58

So are film days.

posted by tr33hggr 14 December | 11:01

Top of the class, baby! But I failed my last practical exam. I thought the surgical tubing would stretch much further...

posted by TrishaLynn 14 December | 11:01

Obviously, you should've done more last minute cramming.

posted by jonmc 14 December | 11:13

The proctor was too hard on me, I think. He just didn't get the thrust of my argument.

posted by TrishaLynn 14 December | 11:35

This is becoming too racy for me. I'm working on a CD of children singing gospel songs, followed by the same tracks repeated in karaoke format, for all those people out there who enjoy having their tykes run around the house singing "Jesus, Jesus, Jesus In The Morning," into a cheap mic. On the cover there's a picture of a child on a tire swing. Our lord digs the rustic Americana thing.

*sigh*

Oddly, I find cultural artifacts like this puppy-dog charming. I'm either going soft or it's my residual cultural Catholicism coming out.

posted by jonmc 14 December | 11:41

...let it shine, let it shine.

Don't let Satan *whoosh* it out,
I'm gonna let it shine,
Don't let Satan *whoosh* it out,
I'm gonna let it shine
Let it shine, let it shine...

posted by Hugh Janus 14 December | 12:00

Over here on the video side of the building, I'm just about to dive into a Japanese "pinky violence" kind of flick. It's amazing what kind of music and videos get released out there, isn't it?

posted by TrishaLynn 14 December | 12:01

Actually, that's the part of the job i like most. It's way more fun (to me anyway) to work on Bulgaraian folk music, Christian Karaoke and Jazz/Swing/R&B comps about WWII GI's than on the latest top 40 or indie sensation.

posted by jonmc 14 December | 12:03

Fuck the fuckers, Hugh. It's Wednesday and I'm buying a lotto ticket. Should I win, your check chock full of Special Dispensation funds will arrive via Very Special Delivery. But in the meantime, keep a firm grasp on the bottle of Peach Scnapps and just fuck 'em.

PS: Hugs.

posted by Frisbee Girl 14 December | 12:54

Yeah, fuck 'em, Hugh. That's what my best friend said when I told him it looked like I was going to get sacked in January.

Wanna come to Portland and lounge in front of the fireplace and help me cash my unemployment checks?

posted by Specklet 14 December | 13:14

PPS: I hope you appreciate the fact that I spelled "Schnapps" incorrectly. That was all for you.

And you should take Speck up on her offer, cuz 'pup, LeeJay and I will already be there. Whuffling up a storm, of course. It'll be good times.

posted by Frisbee Girl 14 December | 13:27

[Austin Powers voice here] Yeeeeah, baby!

posted by Specklet 14 December | 13:34

Hugh, don't let that work ethic get in the way of a perfectly good chance to show your employers that you're worth way more than the way they're treating you.

Oh, and dibs on sharing Specklet's sleeping bag...

posted by mudpuppie 14 December | 13:53

Somehow a three-hour luncheon at a tony midtown Italian joint eases all this a little bit. Oh, so bucco! And in an hour or so I'll be getting drunk with soon-to-be-ex-coworkers at some ritzy joint on 53rd at the holiday shebang.

I'd love to join you guys in the pack-en-double-you, but I'm obliged to go play with my nephew for the holidays. Which activity I've been jonesing for, for months. He's a funny kid.

posted by Hugh Janus 14 December | 16:04

Hugh, I remember you saying lots of cool stuff about that kid, but I can't remember what. I remember thinking you were the coolest uncle evar, though...

posted by Specklet 14 December | 16:48

I think I'm with the "fuck 'em" crowd, Hugh. I started training a freshly hired fulltimer (I'm contract b/c I like making my own schedule and being able to fire clients if they are assholes) this week. I have 20 years of experience, she just completed a 3 year associates degree program and has about a month of experience. i don't know what they're paying her (don't want to) but I really don't feel bad about what I'm charging at all, now. She has a loooooooong way to go.

posted by chewatadistance 14 December | 17:56

Keep your chin up, Hugh. The office environment wasn't meant for everyone. It makes sense to some, not to others. And by others I mean me.

posted by rebirtha 14 December | 18:09

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