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Laurie Ellen
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 Posted: 11/25/02 - 12:02 Post subject: Seriously...
I need help understanding something, guys...
I am still feeling, weekly, the repurcussions of losing that file I told you about awhile back. The world is gonna end, folks, really. It's detrimental to the future of the company. The sky is falling.
That's Tom. Going on and on and on about it, until I feel lower than a worm's belly.
There's Michael, telling me it's no big deal and his dad just needs a punching bag.
Now, my question is this... we lost the World Trade Center. With no notice. We lost everything, and some of the most important business in America was being transacted there.
So how come we're getting along? If I lose one computer file and they may as well have dropped the big on on this office, how is it that thousands of desks and all the work being done there is now gone, and the country hasn't screeched to a stop, business-wise?!
I'm really starting to feel like I should offer this clown a pint or two of blood to keep in a jar on his desk... maybe it would make him feel better, knowing I gave a sacrifice for the file.
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purple hayes
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Posted: 11/25/02 - 12:04 Post subject:
Your companies entire business should rest upon one file being deleted. He's just being as @ss.
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Crazy Joe Divola
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Posted: 11/25/02 - 12:07 Post subject:
Simply quit. From your earlier post you made it seem like this job wasn't a necessity. Stay home and take care of your kids fulltime. No fuss, no muss.
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runswithscissors
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Posted: 11/25/02 - 12:10 Post subject:
| Crazy Joe Divola wrote: | | Simply quit. From your earlier post you made it seem like this job wasn't a necessity. Stay home and take care of your kids fulltime. No fuss, no muss. |
BIG FAT1
Sounds like he was looking for reasons to dislike you, and he found it. Jag.
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jrjo
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Posted: 11/25/02 - 12:16 Post subject:
| Crazy Joe Divola wrote: | | Simply quit. From your earlier post you made it seem like this job wasn't a necessity. Stay home and take care of your kids fulltime. No fuss, no muss. |
Could ya? Or how about just a handful of "mental health" days?
So how come the business world is getting along? Personally, I think we're simply a very blessed nation. From personal experience in many different industries, I can tell you in corporate offices all over it's Dilbert. It's a big roulette wheel being spun everyday on what to do next. Huge amounts of luck make millions or lose 'em. I really believe few CEOs have any vision or direction. The wheels of commerce are in motion and there's offices to be filled and as long as we all show up, get something done and spend our paychecks, it chugs on. People all over the place are doing exactly what you mention Laur, putting out fires. From one to the next, near 'fatal' disasters happen over and over. It's just lucky good people like you take the heat and pick up the pieces without going insane.
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Lord Vader
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Posted: 11/25/02 - 12:20 Post subject:
Files get accidentally deleted and lost all the time. The world is an imperfect place. All you can do is help your best to reproduce the file again.
You may want to remind your employer that we are all HUMAN...
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purple hayes
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Posted: 11/25/02 - 12:22 Post subject:
BTW - I backed up the forums this morning. 
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runswithscissors
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Posted: 11/25/02 - 12:24 Post subject:
| purple hayes wrote: | | BTW - I backed up the forums this morning. |
You're lucky! We were thinking about letting you go...
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Laurie Ellen
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Posted: 11/25/02 - 12:25 Post subject:
If it were anyone but Michael's family business I would/could quit. We don't need the money, we were getting along just fine before I came back to work, and everything I make goes into the kids' college funds anyhow... but I just can't quit.
Michael keeps saying how "bad" he feels that I'm needed, and how he hopes to get "things off the ground" soon so that he can put out an ad and hire 3 people (that we need right now, btw), and then I can stay home.
But I think? He likes having me here. There is no brain surgery. I'm not that smart anyhow. I am not indispensible. So why am I here? Michael likes it. He dreads the day I finally say, look, get someone else in here, because I've had it. And as long as I go along and try to stick it out, he's coasting, hoping the day I'm not here every day with him is very far off.
How does that make me feel? I guess it should make me feel good, but I'm not very nice or romantic or something, because it makes me feel resentful and used. It also makes me angry, because all four years we were trying to have kids and I was plugging away at CEI he said the minute we got pregnant I wouldn't ever have to work again. So much for that nonsense.
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Cappy
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Posted: 11/25/02 - 13:58 Post subject:
| purple hayes wrote: | | BTW - I backed up the forums this morning. |
Tha's good. You don't know what kind of effect the novacaine will have on Joel's bladder
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genie
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Posted: 11/25/02 - 14:05 Post subject:
| Laurie Ellen wrote: | If it were anyone but Michael's family business I would/could quit. We don't need the money, we were getting along just fine before I came back to work, and everything I make goes into the kids' college funds anyhow... but I just can't quit.
Michael keeps saying how "bad" he feels that I'm needed, and how he hopes to get "things off the ground" soon so that he can put out an ad and hire 3 people (that we need right now, btw), and then I can stay home.
But I think? He likes having me here. There is no brain surgery. I'm not that smart anyhow. I am not indispensible. So why am I here? Michael likes it. He dreads the day I finally say, look, get someone else in here, because I've had it. And as long as I go along and try to stick it out, he's coasting, hoping the day I'm not here every day with him is very far off.
How does that make me feel? I guess it should make me feel good, but I'm not very nice or romantic or something, because it makes me feel resentful and used. It also makes me angry, because all four years we were trying to have kids and I was plugging away at CEI he said the minute we got pregnant I wouldn't ever have to work again. So much for that nonsense. |
That would be a very convincing argument for his side except for the fact that travels a lot, so you aren't "really" there with him anyhow. I say make a stand and quit. If they really think (Tom, I mean) that they can do better without you, then let them. Either they'll hire someone else to abuse or they'll realize what a valued asset you were to them and ask you to come back. Either way life has to be better than it is now. He'll live, he lived without you before you met, and if you recall, you've often said how he makes comments about the house not being perfect, so that you could do if you didn't have to go in there every day and suffer needlessly.
I've seen you brawl with fiercer opponents, Laur....dig up that backbone and walk.
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Posted: 11/25/02 - 14:08 Post subject:
don't think i'm following why he wants you there so badly. (m)
i truly believe that mr. and i would have split long ago had we been working together and living together. i do not know how couples survive this. i believe there has to be a break between the two (the working life and the home life). i could never in a gazillion years maintain my sanity if i had to work with MR. PERFECT.
i would quit. sorry. you need the FIL like you need a nose wart.
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Laurie Ellen
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Posted: 11/25/02 - 14:19 Post subject:
I know. I really want to quit. But I don't see how I can. I guess I gave the impression that Tom wants me gone... nothing could be further from the truth... have you ever known someone who likes to moan and whine just for the H of it? And it's necessary for that same person to always have someone to punch around to relieve stress and alleviate personal blame?
That's Tom. There's no question of him wanting me to leave. God, if it were only that easy. The best sound in the world: "Laurie, you're fired."
I don't know why M wants me here, RR. I know it doesn't sound like it a lot of times, but we really get along very very well, and most of the time it's nice to be together... but most couples can't (or wouldn't want to) be, so why he wants me here so badly is something I still don't get.
If I didn't think it would make M madder than a hornet, and alienate his entire side of the family, I would walk. But it's FAMILY! ARGGHH!! No solution. Absolutely no solution.
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akern
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Posted: 11/25/02 - 14:20 Post subject:
| rolling rock wrote: | don't think i'm following why he wants you there so badly. (m)
i truly believe that mr. and i would have split long ago had we been working together and living together. i do not know how couples survive this. i believe there has to be a break between the two (the working life and the home life). i could never in a gazillion years maintain my sanity if i had to work with MR. PERFECT.
i would quit. sorry. you need the FIL like you need a nose wart. |
I've been working with my hubby for 6 years now. I can't wait to quit.
Its a fine art to maintain the peace but we don't do too bad.
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akern
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Posted: 11/25/02 - 14:23 Post subject:
| Laurie Ellen wrote: |
If I didn't think it would make M madder than a hornet, and alienate his entire side of the family, I would walk. But it's FAMILY! ARGGHH!! No solution. Absolutely no solution. |
I'm sorry but if it came down to my own personal happiness and pissing off the in-laws, I guess they would just have to be pissed. Sorry. You only live once don't spend your life doing what everyone else wants you to do.
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