I hate to hear stories like this . . . my condolences. Take some
small comfort in the fact that their jobs will be more difficult and
the place will be worse off without you there. Take your talent and
accumulated experience to a better situation.
Too bad Milton from the film "Office Space" wasn't one of your co-workers.
]:->
ScottGee1
On 6/15/06, Paul Braun <cygnus@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Chuck Norcutt wrote:
> > Sorry to hear you're out of a job. But I'm not surprised that the
> > cowardly bastards acted as cowardly bastards. It's all too common. I
> > think the change came about when the "Personnel Department" came to be
> > known as "Human Resources". You can get rid of "resources" just like
> > old desks and machines.
> >
> Yep.
>
> Biggest problem is that the two partners in our office are lazy and have
> put themselves on the status quo glide path to retirement about 10 years
> before they should, so our office growth has stagnated. Naturally,
> rather than address the fact that the partners have no interest in
> picking up new clients, they just start whacking the more "disposable
> resources".
>
> The one thing that I can take comfort in is that the one partner who is
> exceptionally high-maintenance, typically working for an hour on a
> spreadsheet, then forgetting to save it before closing it, or forgetting
> WHERE he saved it, or any of at least a dozen other boneheaded
> computer-related moves that I've gotten adept at rescuing over the last
> six years, will now have to try and figure things out on his own or wait
> until the part-time network admin comes in at the end of the week.
>
> And the new HR person in our office is a loose cannon. She's one of
> those who will be all friendly with you while trying to get you to say
> something she can use against you later. And she has a tendency to tell
> you lots of personal details about another employee, stuff which is none
> of my business to start with, and certainly NOT something she should be
> telling anyone. And I found out that some of the stuff she was telling
> me about a co-worker who is also a friend of mine is not only something
> my friend didn't tell her, but also is absolutely not even true. So
> she's making stuff up as well.
>
> I'm OK with being out of the developing climate in that office. I would
> just have preferred to have another job lined up first....
>
> What's sad is that I wore my Dibert tie Monday morning for my exit
> meeting, and the sublety of that statement was completely lost on the
> two people who fired me.
>
> --
>
>
>
> Paul Braun
> Valparaiso, IN
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