Logged on here a bit earlier and i was confronted with this. I found it amusing....i was very tired.

Bork...Bork..Bork!!

What am I looking at?  Your love for the Ellen DeGeneres show? or the fact that it didn't pull the page to the width of your browser?

Hey guys, I found this thread that you guys might think is interesting. https://forums.galciv2.com/328531/page/1/#1919424 

Ok i thought it would be noticable. Where the grey coloring is and the 00. thats all mean to be ba e black. It's black every other time i visit here...

Oh and ROFL at my love for ellen. The missus watchs the show everyday.

I never heard of that show.

wasn't sure if it was the way you had your browser configured or something.

i noticed ellen too... nice. i'm not a fan or anything, i just got nothin else.

well, it might not be tomorrow, but my boss confirmed that the higher-ups are taking the steps needed to fire me. my boss is cool at least. i made a personal request: if she learns that i'd be given a pink slip on a particular day to let me know so i could sleep in. a man's got to have his priorities in order.

Well its probably better getting canned than quitting, at least you'll get severance pay. However it may not look good on any subsequent resemes', unless you can get by without using them.

well, if i can get 10 words in then it's no issue. i'm applying to computer tech jobs on campus, and since i haven't been fired yet, at least at the time of applying i can say that my reason for leaving is because the job wasn't a good fit. then if they find out i was fired, i can say it was because i'd said i would look for other positions, and they decided to fire me ASAP in order to fill the position. my boss said she'd give an honest recommendation/evaluation and say anything positive when she could.

guess i'll find out one way or another. i can always move back in with my mom if i have to (which i say to motivate myself into finding another job ASAP).

The only job I nearly got fired from I went out with my head held up.  Due to a sucky personal life thx to my ex, my work productivity had fallen fast.  I was given 2 weeks to turn things around or I'd be let go.  The next day I walked in with my 2 weeks notice.  I knew it wasn't going to get better and I prefered to have the 'quit job' rather than 'got fired/let go' on my resume.  My boss understood my problems as he had just gotten thru with a divorce a few months earlier.

Was it just cut backs in the dept or someone you pissed off that is making this come about?

i pissed off a faculty while she was very stressed *cough*bitch*cough*, which in a university will incur the wrath of god against you. but the real deal breaker was that i said i'd look for other positions. they're firing me so they don't have to wait to replace me (which seems stupid, since i still know this job better than someone completely new).

Them firing you for that is wrong. A person like you does not deserve such treatment.

I've pissed off so many bosses and been turfed out on my ass more than i'd like to admit! I'd rather speak my mind and look for another job then kiss the ass of some higher up who is on some power trip because they either, A) are higher up becasue of daddy(or some other family member) or B.....lied cheated or slept their way to that position and now feel all high and mighty and can slag whoever they want from their "safe" lofty heights.

The boss that worked his way up to the top through hard work will, in my experiance, be the boss that will cut you a break and be a much more friendly boss then the "others", and will have earned the respect.

I say f*ck em. If the higher ups do don't treat you...us..anyone, with respect, then they don't deserve to get it back. And if that pisses them off, then they deserve to be cussed out.

Walk out with your head and your finger high Dys,

Frak it's hot here......

i'm actaully happy about all of this. i hate the department and the position. working with grad students is great, but the office culture is sad. so...

1) i get to apply for other jobs now and say my reason for leaving is that the position is a bad fit

2) i get a strong reference from my supervisor

3) the department gets to fire me and re-open the position without having to wait for the hiring process, which in most cases takes months

4) i get to claim unemployment until i get the new job and focus on applying to grad schools

5) i end up with an entry level tech support position that pays better than my mid-level academic affairs position

6) i don't have to bullshit the grads i've met when i run into them on campus and around town

i don't really care who got to where they are through dubious means. life will fuck them over without me doing a damn thing, and it's a lot more fun for me to sit back, watch, and laugh. one of the best lessons my mama taught me was to chose my battles, and this one ain't worth fighting. in the short term i'll be paid better than most of the folk there for doing less work, and in the long term i'll have a more prestigious career than those wishy-washy literature types who think they can learn about people by reading books alone*

*reading is fundamental. i learned a lot through reading that's brought me to understand a great deal about human beings than i otherwise could have. but it wouldn't mean a damn if my academic field didn't emphasize actually experiencing human interaction and getting to know real people.

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!

I wanted to take a moment to wish my fellow tyrants and other visitors a happy and safe Halloween!

Halloween, or All Hallow's Eve, is, as you may know, the day when God-fearing Westerners believe the tormented spirits of saints return to the Earth to prey on the eternal souls of physically and mentally healthy children. To combat this scourge from above, we dress our children in costumes and send them to strangers' door steps to collect some of the most unhealthy and unsavory confections Western science has to offer.

In dressing our children ridiculously, sending them to the homes of people who might well be ex-convicts, and force feeding them disgusting and unhealthy chemical aberrations, we solemnly believe we can destabilize their physical and emotional health just long enough to protect them from the malevolent ghosts of Catholic saints who wish to feed on their spiritual energy, a form of revenge God exacts against us for forcing him to listen to our trite and rambling prayers for popularity, wealth and psychological comfort in a chaotic and arbitrary world.

As I assume you all know, these ravaging saints find the taste of a sexually confused spirits particularly repulsive, so it is recommended you dress your children in costumes that will invoke a crisis of gender identity. Such costumes might include: Peter Pan (a boy-man in tights), Dracula (nothing like a grown man necking other men to death) or Military Officers.

To compliment the psychological damage we must all do to our children, you should also push them to the brink of juvenile diabetes by making sure eat every last, unsavory piece of sugared torture, including: Wax Lips (if you add a wick and light them while the child eats them, you can even double up with some psychological damage on the side), Pixie Sticks (they work better when snorted), Candy Dots (nothing like making a kid feel like his head is a fax machine), and Candy Corn (made from real corn husks!).

With these words of wisdom and caution, I wish you an yours a safe and sheltered All Hallow's Eve. May Our Dark Lord protect your offspring from the wrath of every last disembodied fanatic!

Cheers,
dys