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The further and continuing adventures of the girl who sat in the back of your homeroom, reading and daydreaming.
About Me
- Roberta X
- Indianapolis, Indiana, United States
- I'm *mindlessly* fascinating. My internal monologue is like a frog in a blender, swimming like mad to keep ahead of the blades.
What's On My Other Blogs?
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HERMES "ROCKET"5 years ago
My Blogfriends List
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Ethnic food, Westphalian style1 day ago
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Cults and Music5 years ago
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Defenders Of The Bill Of Rights
(c) 2007 through 2024, inclusive. All rights reserved.
Ego vadum perussi vestri prandium
Ego vadum perussi vestri prandium
"I saw to what extent the people among whom I lived could be trusted as good neighbors and friends; that their friendship was for summer weather only; that they did not greatly propose to do right; that they were a distinct race from me by their prejudices and superstitions."
Henry David Thoreau
Henry David Thoreau
Blogs: A link here does not constitute an endorsement! Many people have gone nuts in recent years.
- View From The Porch
- Cop Car's Beat
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- Walls Of The City
- True Blue Sam
- Trailer Park Paradise
- Tom Cochrun/Light Breezes
- Thunder Tales
- The Wandering Thoughts Of J. R. Shirley
- The View From North Central Idaho
- The Unwanted Blog
- The Travis McGee Reader
- The Shekel
- The Miller
- Marko Kloos (.com)
- The Clue Meter
- Staghounds
- SnarkyBytes
- Sharp As A Marble
- Shall Not Be Questioned
- Self Sufficient Slacker
- Say Uncle
- Rustmeister's Alehouse
- Rich's Garage
- Retrotechnologist
- Pergelator
- PA State Cop
- Not Clauswitz
- New Jovian Thunderbolt! (RIP)
- Mycroft HOLMES 4
- Mike Kole: Hoosier LP guy
- Mike Flynn: The TOF Spot
- MArooned: JayG
- Listen To Uncle Jay
- Last Refuge Of A Scoundrel
- Jigsaw's Thoughts
- Insert Title Here
- In Jennifer's Head
- I Work On A Starship
- Home On The Range
- Gun Blog Black List
- Fatale Abstraction
- Fat In Indiana
- Every Blade Of Grass
- EB5AGV RadioRepair
- Cowboy Blob (link fixed!)
- Carteach0
- Caleb at GunNuts
- Brick O'Lore
- Better and Better: Matt G
- Ambulance Driver
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- Epiphany: New Jersey Gun Laws
- Joe "Triangulator" Donnelly
- Parasites
- It's On
- Pilots!
- BlogMeet!
- Tuesday Brekky
- What Worries Claire Wolfe
- When Does 47,565 Equal One Millon?
- President Says Gun Control Advocates Should Listen...
- Wow, It's Late!
- Whinging/Bullies
- My Senator Wrote Back
- Pi = 3 All Over Again
- Happy Birthday...
- "Unintended" Consequence?
- Speaking Of History
- The Capitol Building: Who Didn't Build That?
- More-Or-Less Random Thoughts
- ND 1500?
- We're Sorry, Mr. Poe!
- Gun Show Afternoon
- Astronomers: Optimists; Me? Somewhat
- The Hoosier Gun Angle, Continued
- Hoosier Angle On Gun Control
- What Claire Said
- Here It Comes
- Linguistic Patrol: Idiotic Writer And/Or Mayor Is ...
- The Best Writing...
- The Left's Gun Law Wish Is On Uncle Joe's Desk
- Don't Be A Yeager
- Propranolol: Side Effects?
- Wotta Day!
- Gone Shootin'
- Addicted
- I Renewed My NRA Membership Today
- Beech Grove Firearms -- A Visit
- Historical Artifact
- Resolved
- Tinfoil? Check. Hat? Check. Tragic Fate? Check.
- Carrying Coal To Newcastle On A Dead Horse
- Current-ish Events
- I Aten't Ded
- How Fact Becomes Fiction
- Speaking Of Gerry Anderson
- The Overnight Report
- I'm Just In
- It's Better To Have A Gun When You Need One
- Thunderbird Is...Go?
- Wow, I Ought To Have A Post
- DEA? FDA? WTF?
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On The Front Lines
What They Say:
"...Savagely cynical Roberta...."
--Sepulveda's Revenge
"Your lack of compassion and humanity is stunning."
--Some Canadian dude
"I think my brain just core dumped. What were we just talking about?"
--A travelling Texan
"Die quietly you ignorant hoosier."
--A Sad-Sack Moonbat
"Memetic whiplash has rarely been so much fun."
--A Really Kewl Guy
"I liked the variety of content you have shred with the readers..."
--A Spastic Spammer
--Sepulveda's Revenge
"Your lack of compassion and humanity is stunning."
--Some Canadian dude
"I think my brain just core dumped. What were we just talking about?"
--A travelling Texan
"Die quietly you ignorant hoosier."
--A Sad-Sack Moonbat
"Memetic whiplash has rarely been so much fun."
--A Really Kewl Guy
"I liked the variety of content you have shred with the readers..."
--A Spastic Spammer
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14 comments:
Decades back when I war an engineer too ...
I had a "discussion" with my boss about how essential I was and how I thought that should translate to my paycheck. Since we didn't seem to equally value my time, I quit.
They called me at 2AM the day after I quit. Which is how I won that discussion.
The annoying thing is that really, I *am* replaceable (most every worker is), but it would be *inconvenient.*
I have had the discussion with my boss about how much that "convenience" is worth to 'em and the answer is -- it isn't. So I can either take what they offer or go elsewhere.
The rest of my vacation, I'm screening calls.
(My favorite you-useless-engineer story is the little radio station where I'd set up a calendar to keep track of all the live-broadcast remotes, satellite feed recordings, routine maintenance and so on that my staff of one and I needed to do. It was simply an effort to ensure we didn't miss anything. The program directors hated it because it showed their conflicting demands on the available resources and after I quit, they took the calendar down. [That'll fix it!] Next day I had a frantic call from my former staffer, asking, "You kept copies of the calendar, didn't you?" "Nope." "Uh-oh." --Uh-oh, indeed.)
I got calls from one outfit for months after I quit. Usually for help on the very screwed up stuff that had led me to quit. The calls usually started with, "I know you don't work here anymore, but..."
That company doesn't exist anymore for some strange reason. I think the name still does, as part of... Well, it wouldn't surprise anyone in telecom to hear that this was part of the Ebbers cluster-f.
Bear the response to "I know you don't work here anymore, but..." is: "That's correct. And my consultation fees are $500 per hour with a two-hour minimum. Got your credit card number handy?"
I REALLY liked using that one, especially when it refers to a situation similar to Roberta's calendar.
"REFERRED to a situation"
How come I can spot grammatical errors the instant I click "Publish" but not when clicking "Preview"??
Lord only knows but it is So True. And it goes double for seeing it in a book vs. on a screen.
@Rickn8or: Oh, [expletive deleted] no. Cash only with that outfit.
(Amusingly, WorldCom -- which I'd also worked for, and which bought out the other company -- actually tried to hire me back on the regular payroll. They didn't have that much money.)
I think a company I worked for ended up in Worldcom for a minute or two, but not sure.
Another outfit laid me off with all the rest of the engineers because their accountant couldn't do basic math ... and failed to pay me for a month's wages. With state law penalties that added up to a hair over five figures.
Then they called me to ask about contracting in to finish the project. Sure, I said, $90 an hour ( well it was the late '80's ...) and you pay me that ten big bills you owe me first ...
Never heard from them again.
I was down-sized in 2001 from a service industry position in which,besides being a service tech I also had responsibilities as a district trainer and safety compliance. Two weeks after my last day on the job I got a call at home wanting to know why I was there and not at my scheduled training session in a major metro area three hours away. When I mentioned that I no longer worked for them, they tried to explain that only the tech job had been eliminated, not the others. When I asked about how I was going to be compensated, there was a stunned silence. "Well, you were paid as a tech. . .we can't pay you for these duties". Click was the only answer from me.
Heh. I had just about forgotten this: I used to be in the Air Farce. Got out after Gulf War Part 1. I was at home one summer afternoon doing who the heck remembers what when the phone rang.
I answered.
"Sergeant Bussjaeger, this is a recall. Report to your work center immediately."
"Um... Do you idiots realize I'm not in the Air Farce anymore?"
"What?"
"I got out a couple months ago."
"Oh. ... ... ... ... Then you're not the Wideband NCOIC now?"
"Nope."
"Who is?"
"Beats the f### outa me. Why don't you ask someone in the Air Farce?"
(Added: In some ways the best part was that this conversation went on, and they actually told this dedicated civilian why they were running a military recall. It wasn't classified, but it's something they should have kept their mouths shut about.)
Rickn8or: I didn't squeeze the company that laid me off in 2007 quite that hard - just enough so that year was my highest income so far.
I feel your pain. I usually can't take a day off without at least one call.
My boss patriotically asks me to refrain from getting hit by a bus. Nice to know he cares.
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1 AM? Damn.
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