Yep, husker, lookin for beans to count elsewhere.
Congratulations, steissd!
<raising a glass (of spring water) to steissd's good fortune and rae, husker, and pdog's hunts>
So I'm walking through my department this morning (before store opening) on my way to my office when the security manager comes out of his office and yells at me. "I've been sitting here for forty-five minutes with my door open waiting for you to come back from vacation. Where the hell is my Monday morning rant?" LMAO I didn't have one.
I'm going to hell on Monday.
Okay, so here's proof that one should never burn a bridge:
I left my last company several years ago because I absolutely could not work with my boss. As a matter of fact, she turned thirteen department managers in eighteen months. Her tyrannical approach to management was not well accepted and rumor was that she was on the verge of being fired when she left that company. Ironically, she came to work for the same company I did. Few people in the company know that she was once my boss; even fewer know that I swore I would quit before she ever became my boss again. Anyhow, because her store needs extra hands on Monday, our regional VP has requested my presence there. I'll have the good fortune of spending the day with her.
Did I mention that she and my current boss are the best of friends?
There is some nasty, smegging karmic THING happening with you and that boss Terry me darlin'!
I am semi-serious!!!!!
Really.
Maybe if you did a compassion/forgiveness meditation for a month or so it might shift it?
Maybe it's her bad karma and you're meant to kick her ass on Monday.
A day is 24 hours long, you will not be working that long. Life is forever and maybe you will never see this person again. Despite the bitch - have a good day, it too will pass
We all love ya Terry and will be back in touch with you on Tuesday. :wink:
(what a good dog that billw is.)
Actually, wolf - but, we're all the same in God's world
Canus is Canus is Canus, to me. You could still knock up my sister.
I wonder what MY karma was in this one?
A few years ago, I met an ex for coffee - now, I knew going in that he was a bad breaker-upper and seldom seemed to recover happily from relationships, so I was not expecting good when we broke up, at least in terms of how he spoke of me, though we are very friendly when we meet.
So - almost at the end of the coffee, he tells me that he has begun a new relationship with a woman I know reasonably well, and had always quite liked and got on well with. I thought great - and then thought little of it, except to congratulate him - and her next time I saw her - and wish them very genuinely well.
THEN - I am at a party at his place a few months later, and am viciously attacked by said woman! Couldn't believe it - neither could anyone else! Part of the attack - in the middle of, and very loudly, of a very busy party, was on the organization I work for. Hmmmmm....so, I put it down, very surprisedly, to some "hate the ex " thing (like the relationship was over a looog time ago) - lower my opinion of her by a number of notches, and go about my business. She continues to attack me - and my organisation - whenever we meet (mutual friends, dammit) but less obviously - while he looks uncomfortable - I riposte as cuttingly and sweetly as possible and ignore her as much as I can.
THEN - I wake up one fine day to see the announcement of the new CEO of the hospital of which the organisation I work for is a community service announced. You guessed it!
I see all my bosses go off to meet with this woman, whose opinion of them I have been loudly and rudely treated to on a number of occasions, and come back all charmed by her. Yikes! I get to see her performing a number of very damaging manouevres, while fooling people with false positives. I think - "this is fun".
THEN - my team gets a new boss - one of the first things I discover when I mention her name in passing to friends is that she is bosom buddies with you know who (and that she is a total two-faced horror - which turns out to be very true - although, as is usual, not the whole truth - she had her good points.)
Well, they are both moved on now - but it was a very odd and unsettling interlude - especially given that the new girlfriend's attacks often contained veiled references to VERY intimate information, which can only have come from you know who!
True patio, hmmmm sister you say -
nice story little bunny!!!!!!!!
Wasn't very smegging nice while I was living it!
Never is, and our little Ms Terry don't feel to great right now either - but that too passes :wink:
dlowan wrote:There is some nasty, smegging karmic THING happening with you and that boss Terry me darlin'!
You just may be right. A very good friend of my former roommate happens to be a very good friend of the old boss. I can't even GET six smegging degrees of separation from her! I figure I must have done something very wrong in a past life.
Bill--True, the day will only be nine hours and I'm hoping to get through it with minimal contact.
I should just be happy that I was one of the chosen. It shows the confidence of my RVP in my abilities. That's the thread to which I'm clinging at this point.
'Tis a big, fat rope, not a thread!
The RVP is quite fickle. She'll have a new favorite soon enough, but I'll enjoy it while it lasts.
OK, so it pays to maintain a positive attitude. I chose to wake up this morning with a smile. I put happy music in my Discman for the commute into the city, walked to the train station, and enjoyed the beautiful weather. When I got to the store, I sought out the old boss, greeted her with a huge smile, shook her hand and asked for direction. We spent much of the day together and, get this......WE HAD FUN! I even stuck around for an extra hour to help her finish what we'd started. When it comes to days like today, I love it when I'm wrong.
