Damaris wrote:

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I'll have to check on that Monday morning.  My understanding is that they will also help you find work that pays at least as much as you were making previously.  Sounds good to me... if they can find a job that pays at least as much as I made before, I'm game.

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Damaris wrote:

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Ah, you must be skimmin' and skippin' today... I was canned    Given what was going on with management and their attitude about my rate of pay (I was making much more than the others, thanks to our good ol' horny-as-hell HR manager who was actually fired a couple of months ago for sexual harrassment of another employee), I saw this coming.

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Damaris wrote:

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I am BEYOND relieved.  It was actually quite funny when they told me.  I just started laughing out loud... they said, "Well, you're taking it pretty well.".  I almost said, "What the **** do I have to lose by losing a job like this?  It BLOWS!!".  But I was so happy to be getting the hell out of there that I just tore off my apron, signed my paperwork and booked out.  I did tell them, though, that I hope they find someone who can do the job better than me and will put up with all the bull****.  I can't imagine anyone in their right mind who would. That being said, I'm hitting some websites today and mailing off resumès.  There's not much I can do on the weekends, though.  I've got an appointment at 9 am tomorrow with a temp agency I visited Friday... I guess so I can take a typing test and stuff.  Between that and the possible unemployment benefits I could receive (and my savings), I'll be OK until something permanent comes along.  

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LMAO! I'll bet that was funny! I would have had a few choice words for them too! Like have fun with your vermin and what not! LOL!

You'll be fine though. It sounds like you really got everything planned ahead.

Damaris wrote:

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Perhaps I should talk my parents into leaving toy rats (rubber ones) around the store, with little Post-It notes on them, each with a dirty little secret about how the store is ran, how they price merchandise and try to trick customers into buying lots of stuff they don't need.

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Damaris wrote:

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They'll do it, too.  My mom already sent a couple of letters in a fictional name to the store and to the corporate office, bitching about She-Bitch and the rats. You know, that would be a cool name for a punk band.  "Friday Nite!  $1 longnecks, no cover until 10.  Bang your head to the sounds of She-Bitch and the Rats!"

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Damaris wrote:

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My parents RULE.  They are hilarious.  So guess who called this evening?  The mortgage company I used to work for!!  They want me to come in tomorrow at 9 am for testing AND they already have an interview scheduled for me at 11!!  They normally don't do that until they've seen your test results.  It's for the management reporter position I applied for, which is exactly the same position I had before, but in a different department.  So maybe I'll be back in the rat race sooner than I thought.

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Damaris wrote:

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It's a good thing!  I liked working for the mortgage company.  Steady income, in a job I actually enjoy!  Granted, it doesn't pay nearly as well as the other job I would like to have with the FBI, but I haven't even gotten an interview for that one yet. 

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Damaris wrote:

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There is a position I found on Monster.com for a data analyst in the FBI branch in my city.  It appears that I meet all of the requirements, and since it's just an entry level position it requires no experience other than basic spreadsheet/word processing/math skills.  All of the job duties are ones that I have done before, many times.  This job pays a HELL of a lot more than either the mortgage company or Hell Depot.  However, I haven't even gotten a call from them yet.  It's not a sure thing, and I can't sit around holding out for a job that I may not get when this one at the mortgage company is almost guaranteed and will pay the bills.  Does that make sense?  It's like this... I will be happy to go back to work at the mortgage company, but if I get a shot at the data analyst position or something similar to it, I'm taking it   

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Damaris wrote:

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I would feel like a **** for doing that, but that's the only kind of job I would leave the mortgage company for.  Something that pays a LOT more... and a government job at that.  And the idea of being around those hot FBI agents gets me 57 varieties of excited.  LMAO.

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Damaris wrote:

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About the closest he ever came was in "Face/Off", when he became Sean Archer.  Yeah, I guess that would count, wouldn't it? My mind will always be in the gutter to a certain extent, and what makes it especially funny is people would never in a thousand years imagine my mind operates the way it does.  Whenever the possibility to be put in a new situation arises, my first thought is, "Will this put me in closer proximity to sexy men?  And will they be available to me?"  LMAO. 

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Cheripits wrote:

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Let's not leave out "Guarding Tess" while we're at it.....lol

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Damaris wrote:

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Oh baby... what I wouldn't give to have THIS guy around me at all times... if I were a First Lady, I think I'd have to exercise my executive power and squeeze that cute butt as much as possible. -- Edited by Damaris at 19:55, 2006-02-01

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Damaris wrote:

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They should have wrote Shirley Maclaine's character as this dirty old woman chasing Doug around the house... LMAO.  That would have been HILARIOUS!! "Oh, Douglas... have you seen my panties lying around?"  

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