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Nov. 10th, 2008 08:58 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
vicarzWow, I just got a piece of job security - another person is leaving our staff, the recluse. Frankly, I'm glad to see him go. Like me, he's a giant nerd and socially awkward. Unlike me, he has no interest in people and often lashes out to try and attack those around him. He intentionally sits as far away from everyone as he can, and works hours off the clock - rarely interacting with anyone in the office. He always has a complaint ready to fire, and nothing is ever his fault. His work product is actually pretty good, but every type of interaction with him seems laborious and painful to both parties. He's going back to where he came from - civil rights, the land of chronic complainers and barely employable nut-jobs.
I told my boss this AM that I was applying for that PTO job. He doesn't blame me. There is a lot of unhappiness here, and about half or more of the people in our division are looking for work elsewhere. The funny thing is losing our recluse gives me that much more job security.
I hit L&T to see if there were any bargains to be had. Nope. Bankruptcy isn't what it used to be - they had everything marked either normal price or 25% higher. Mostly the prices were fair, but at only 20% off you're better off getting that coupon and going to BBB. Circuit City just declared bankruptcy - sounds like a buying opportunity, but I'm sure they'll also have a meaningless sale. I will probably do better online than looking to the clearance.
I'm looking for little things I can do around the house to make it nicer - having the tv running through the computer is so fun - I can't tell you how much I enjoy the media center. I should be ashamed as that is so very lame and hardly new technology, but last night after getting my application started and the gym gymified, it felt so very good to curl up under a blanket and watch an awful movie from tv with all the commercials skipped, the padding and chase scenes ffwd or skipped, and pause hit every time the phone rang.
OBAMA is talking about bailing out the auto industry. Uh, no. Fuck no. Not for the 2nd time, and NO. The right blew it on this one, with the industry leaders (self-regulated, you see) only going for the next big quarterly benchmark to nail their bonus. Freedom in the marketplace includes the freedom to FAIL, not to allow untaxed unlimited profit if you win, and taxpayer salvation if/when you lose. The left blew it as the unions and short-sighted yahoos who elected their leaders continued to have higher-than-college-educated salaries, no job loss, insane benefits, and an unsustainable retirement plan. They ignored all dire indication from the marketplace, only trying to win the next election and pacify their members' cries for keeping all the dollars they could even as the industry was sinking. The execs and the unions share the blame for the failure, and all deserve to fail utterly. I'll be furious if they saddle the taxpayer with the bill. I ran into a great idea on my mom's lefty blog - retrain our manufacturing workforce to do all that rehab that is needed on our dying infrastructure! If I'm going to have my tax dollars going into a blue collar worker's pocket anyway, why not give me water lines, sewer facilities, bridges, and roads I can drive on?
I told my boss this AM that I was applying for that PTO job. He doesn't blame me. There is a lot of unhappiness here, and about half or more of the people in our division are looking for work elsewhere. The funny thing is losing our recluse gives me that much more job security.
I hit L&T to see if there were any bargains to be had. Nope. Bankruptcy isn't what it used to be - they had everything marked either normal price or 25% higher. Mostly the prices were fair, but at only 20% off you're better off getting that coupon and going to BBB. Circuit City just declared bankruptcy - sounds like a buying opportunity, but I'm sure they'll also have a meaningless sale. I will probably do better online than looking to the clearance.
I'm looking for little things I can do around the house to make it nicer - having the tv running through the computer is so fun - I can't tell you how much I enjoy the media center. I should be ashamed as that is so very lame and hardly new technology, but last night after getting my application started and the gym gymified, it felt so very good to curl up under a blanket and watch an awful movie from tv with all the commercials skipped, the padding and chase scenes ffwd or skipped, and pause hit every time the phone rang.
OBAMA is talking about bailing out the auto industry. Uh, no. Fuck no. Not for the 2nd time, and NO. The right blew it on this one, with the industry leaders (self-regulated, you see) only going for the next big quarterly benchmark to nail their bonus. Freedom in the marketplace includes the freedom to FAIL, not to allow untaxed unlimited profit if you win, and taxpayer salvation if/when you lose. The left blew it as the unions and short-sighted yahoos who elected their leaders continued to have higher-than-college-educated salaries, no job loss, insane benefits, and an unsustainable retirement plan. They ignored all dire indication from the marketplace, only trying to win the next election and pacify their members' cries for keeping all the dollars they could even as the industry was sinking. The execs and the unions share the blame for the failure, and all deserve to fail utterly. I'll be furious if they saddle the taxpayer with the bill. I ran into a great idea on my mom's lefty blog - retrain our manufacturing workforce to do all that rehab that is needed on our dying infrastructure! If I'm going to have my tax dollars going into a blue collar worker's pocket anyway, why not give me water lines, sewer facilities, bridges, and roads I can drive on?
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Date: 2008-11-10 05:47 pm (UTC)That's why I can't give an objective answer.