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Re: I just need to whimper
« Reply #1260 on: March 28, 2014, 07:26:59 PM »
That's horrible for us all.  :(
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Re: I just need to whimper
« Reply #1261 on: March 29, 2014, 02:47:33 PM »
In the process of fixing my ps3 controller I smashed  my French press...

Follow-up story



My teapot may never forgive me for this.

ps... don't anyone say anything about my floral teapot! I inherited it alright!

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Re: I just need to whimper
« Reply #1262 on: March 30, 2014, 12:50:22 AM »
Think I'm developing carpal tunnel syndrome again, so I'm probably going to have to back-scale how much I'm on the boards and how much I write for a couple of weeks.  :-\

In better news, this means I plan on doing a lot more reading and movie watching that I have in the past month.
That's a bummer. :(  Hope resting up will help!

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Re: I just need to whimper
« Reply #1263 on: March 31, 2014, 11:33:31 PM »
I like your teapot.
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Re: I just need to whimper
« Reply #1264 on: April 01, 2014, 05:08:02 PM »
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Re: I just need to whimper
« Reply #1265 on: April 17, 2014, 02:01:40 AM »
I'm a healthy sleeper, and what I get when I wake up from a long kip is......less than two pages of posts from the part of the world that has been awake all the time. It's become the norm. Guess Letterboxd is doing well.

EDIT: Twice as many pages today during the same period of waking hours! Knew we could do it!
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Re: I just need to whimper
« Reply #1266 on: May 09, 2014, 02:38:10 AM »
So Monday I was officially offered a promotion that I had applied for at work. It was only a temporary thing (at least for the time being), subbing for someone on maternity leave, but it would be a good chance to try my hand at some more responsibility at work, challenge myself a little. The slight pay bump (very slight really) would be nice but the most important thing in some sense is I'd be working normal weekday schedule for the first time.

Sounds like a good thing, no? Well, today I found out that they decided not to fill the position and so I'm staying in my present position/shift. Definitely have the carpet pulled out from under me feeling. I mean, I was set to start the new position on Monday and suddenly no. It had gotten close enough that I had had to tell some teammates at work that I was leaving the team/shift and now I had to immediately kind of embarrass myself by saying that isn't happening. It just isn't a proper way to treat an employee (especially one with an exemplary record who by qualification is drastically underpaid and underutilized).

This may be the bump I need to finally get serious about applying for positions outside the company, back home in Colorado. I hate the job market so it takes something to do this but in theory I should be able to get a position that is both more interesting and pays vastly better, the downside, naturally, will be a bit more stress but I just don't feel like I can pursue life goals where I am right now.

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Re: I just need to whimper
« Reply #1267 on: May 09, 2014, 07:02:59 AM »
Sorry to hear that. It is an unprofessional way to treat someone and I'd be frustrated, too, especially since I told other people I would have worked with already.

It stinks to be somewhere where you don't feel you're being respected or is suited to the qualifications you have.

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Re: I just need to whimper
« Reply #1268 on: May 09, 2014, 09:16:50 AM »
That's awful, Bondo. 
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Re: I just need to whimper
« Reply #1269 on: May 09, 2014, 11:20:20 AM »
That totally sucks.
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