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Protected: On different sides of a great divide.

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An email exhange I enjoyed today. Details have been changed to protect the…my job, basically.
From: Sid
Sent: Wednesday, August 20, 2008 3:51 PM
To: Coordinating Personnel
Subject: RE: Charity Auction Voucher
Hi CP,
Big Event is fairly soon, though I don’t know exactly when. The CP at my org sent the vouchers via interoffice mail, and that was fine. Would […]

Maybe it’s the sun.

I’ve just spent the last 8 hours chortling, chuckling, guffawing and teasing. And working.
I’ve been this friggin’ happy at work.
Shocking. Maybe it’s just a Friday thing. Or some sort of karmic refund for the previous few years of misery. Maybe it’s just the fact that the sun has been streaming in on all of […]

You like me, you really like me!

More than one person has described my relationship with my former job as reminiscent of a woman with an abusive boyfriend.
That may be so, but let’s not talk about that.
Let’s talk about how my new job is like the best boyfriend I never had! I’ve been here over two months now, but I just went […]

My pay stub, let me show you it.

Not really. But I was finally offered the job! Wooooooot!
I’ve already accepted. Hell, I’ve been there a few months now, what’s to think about?
Money? Check. Benefits? Check. Retirement account? Check.
I am once again suckling at the warm, PPO-scented teat of corporate America. Saints be praised. God doesn’t hate me after all.




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