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Originally Posted by Verencat
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No one was taking the lead while the boss was out on vacation, everyone "throwing the monkey" (poor Adrian)
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As Ricky is always reminding me, Adrian is an ape, not a monkey. I
know this, but I tend to take a rather relaxed attitude towards little, arbitrary things like "word definitions". Of course, I'm a (interfenestral) monkey, but still, no offence taken.
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Originally Posted by ShortNCuddlyAm
If it helps to talk about it here, talk about it here. Bottling things in is really, really bad for you. Voice of experience, 'n all.
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Two years ago I was fired from a company I had been employed by for 12 years (and by a boss I had worked for for 19). The Loved One doesn't like me saying "fired", but rather "let go" or "made redundant", but to me, particularly at the time, it was "generously fired". The boss was also a "friend". I was fired as a bargaining chip to improve a relationship with another (non-customer, shit-full) company who didn't like me doing the job I was charged with (project management and system security monitoring and "policing"). I excelled at what I did. It was
because of this that they wanted me gone. The boss himself said and says this. He fired me anyway, thus simultaneously humiliating me in front of what is a fairly incestuous industry.
I had a lot of expectations from my employment/employer. Do the right thing; receive the rewards. Earn trust; receive it. Loyalty pays. Excel at your job, become a critical employee; get stability and safety. Friendship...
...ah, well, no need to open that cranium of worms. I don't work now, and I'm grateful I don't need to. Suffice to say, none of the variables above mean anything to me. Words...well, they're just words, and they're tricksy, and people will use them and review them in ways to convince themselves and you that "the right thing" is being done and that you/they deserve it. Look after yourself, and give that self with care.
Shaking hands still keeps the other hand free, and you need to watch both.
...all of which is the cynical distrust of post-betrayal. It can leave a taint, and I'm one to rub that taint into stain and that stain into bruise, so consider this simply the morose meanderings of a melancholy monkey. If you do find yourself starting to bruise though, verencat, come talk to us, okay? There's a ways to go past the bruising, and you probably don't want to head down (again?) into those dark, drowned woods. Talking helps, and here folks'll listen. Sometimes it's enough.
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Originally Posted by Peverel
Just remember the old saying:
'I'd rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy'
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Sorry, Perceval, I can't remember anything since the frontal lobotomy.
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Originally Posted by Lady Blue
If I remember correctly, he has relatives visiting.
But I'm often wrong, so . . . where's Marc these days? - not on holiday surely? (I'm a copy kitty.)
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Visiting relatives for the long weekend, but now back and catching up. You're a chatty lot, you know?
Cheers,
Marc