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GlytchMeister wrote:I once got hired onto a janitorial company. I was with them for about a month when one of our biggest customers made a bad deal and lost a lot of money... So they cut their contract with our company.

My whole department got laid off.

Sorry you got screwed by your company. It happens all to often nowadays.

Oilfield service company employee here. It's slash and burn survival mode at my company. Not pretty. Made worse by a failed merger/takeover attempt that dragged on for over a year. I've been through several of these downturns and it pisses me off that the current leadership seems to have forgotten the lessons from the last time this happened. But it's all about satisfying Wall Street and maintaining that facade of appearing to know wtf they are doing. Got a new VP over our division recently, I fear he is going to eff it up like what he did while over Manufacturing a few positions ago. I have determined I stick around just for the entertainment of what is going to happen next.

I may be in a similar situation.

I work in the financial industry. The company I work for pretty much has market saturation in their primary field, so has been branching out into other areas of the financial industry. We obtained a business in the UK in the financial industry as a part of that branching out.

Three months ago. In the UK.

Now that Brexit has happened... well, let's just say that some people are not looking very intelligent, and we all know what rolls downhill. In an attempt to cut costs, the entire facility I work at might end up shut down.

Apparently the reason I haven't been called about whether or not they'll transfer me is because my former supervisor lost his phone again. Oh, and never even called the person he was supposed to call, and I'm guessing doesn't know how to use any other phone.

Alkarii wrote:Apparently the reason I haven't been called about whether or not they'll transfer me is because my former supervisor lost his phone again. Oh, and never even called the person he was supposed to call, and I'm guessing doesn't know how to use any other phone.

Start job hunting. Hopefully you never stopped.

Don't step in the bullshit.

I've worked in too many big faceless corporations to not recognize a runaround when I see one. Sorry, but I wouldn't put any faith or bet any damned thing on you staying employed there. It's entirely possible they'll make up a reason to fire you. Sometimes you can fight it, but they have lawyers with pointier teeth than you do, and it usually isn't worth the trouble, and you might end up with an albatross around your neck that says "whistleblower", which will make you unemployable.

Sure, there's laws that are made to protect good people like that, but they aren't effective or enforced. That's not how the real world works.

Best way to protect yourself is to have as many other job prospects lined up in advance as you can before you get the axe.

Well, the moment he said he'd see what he could do about getting me transferred, I knew it wasn't going to happen. People make me promises all the time, and it isn't often that they keep those same promises. Hell, a long time ago I started to associate a promise with a lie, anyway.

As soon as he said it was my last day, I considered my time there as finished.

It sucks being a cynic, but at least we clench before we get sucker-punched.

Some serious shit is about to go down in Little Rock today. Thankfully I live a good distance from the capitol building, where some major protests are going to happen this evening. I wouldn't be surprised if some of today's protests (as they're going on in 37 cities today) turn violent.

Alkarii wrote:Some serious shit is about to go down in Little Rock today. Thankfully I live a good distance from the capitol building, where some major protests are going to happen this evening. I wouldn't be surprised if some of today's protests (as they're going on in 37 cities today) turn violent.

Nowadays, even the local sports team winning or losing a big one is cause for rioting... So yeah, an actual cause? You can bet there will be violence...

The only violence in town here lately was a bunch of immature frat boys running amok. Fortunately there was a group of town police and sheriff's deputies standing just across the street who witnessed everything, so they know I didn't start it and that I acted with restraint and thus won't be charged with anything.

Catawampus wrote:The only violence in town here lately was a bunch of immature frat boys running amok. Fortunately there was a group of town police and sheriff's deputies standing just across the street who witnessed everything, so they know I didn't start it and that I acted with restraint and thus won't be charged with anything.

Yeah.

Okay.

I'm watching Terminator: Genisys, and I just realized something about the whole series:

None of the assassins sent back in time by Skynet would have been able to succeed in killing Sara or John Connor. The first clue is that the protector was able to be sent back. If you think of it, Skynet should have realized it was going to fail immediately after sending back the Terminator; the successful assassination would have immediately changed the era from which the Terminators were sent, John wouldn't exist, and the resistance wouldn't have been able to send back Reese, or their own reprogrammed Terminators.

If Skynet really wanted to succeed, it would have sent back a bunch of Terminators at once.

Alkarii wrote:Some serious shit is about to go down in Little Rock today. Thankfully I live a good distance from the capitol building, where some major protests are going to happen this evening. I wouldn't be surprised if some of today's protests (as they're going on in 37 cities today) turn violent.

Check the news about what happened in Baton Rouge, LA today...

Messed up part? Wasn't even a local boy. He went several hundred miles for the expressed purpose of shooting cops.

f**king moron.

Yeah, I just found that out a few minutes before reading your post. I didn't read any details about the shooting itself, but I saw something about how the day before, the New Black Panthers were recruiting in that city the day before. Apparently the old Black Panthers want nothing to do with these new guys, who apparently are a bit too crazy for their tastes.

However, since this guy drove a good ways off to Baton Rouge, I'm wondering if he had no connection to them.

Alkarii wrote:Yeah, I just found that out a few minutes before reading your post. I didn't read any details about the shooting itself, but I saw something about how the day before, the New Black Panthers were recruiting in that city the day before. Apparently the old Black Panthers want nothing to do with these new guys, who apparently are a bit too crazy for their tastes.

However, since this guy drove a good ways off to Baton Rouge, I'm wondering if he had no connection to them.

From what I saw (and keep in mind, this is based on preliminary reporting, and we all know how sensationalized and generally incorrect THAT can get), the guy was killed and ended up from somewhere in Missouri or something like that.

Makes you wonder if he was just part of a larger militant organization or something...

Some news reports indicate that he was connected to, or had an interest in some of the fringe "conspiracy" groups... e.g. the folks who are convinced that the Government is doing a "full nervous system" mind-reading surveillance, and radio-wave thought control on people.

The tinfoil-hat brigade seems to have believers in just about every radical part of the political spectrum, left, right, black, white, you name it... anybody can have a paranoid fear of the Powers That Be.

ShneekeyTheLost wrote: From what I saw (and keep in mind, this is based on preliminary reporting, and we all know how sensationalized and generally incorrect THAT can get), the guy was killed and ended up from somewhere in Missouri or something like that.

KC Missouri.

Dave wrote:Some news reports indicate that he was connected to, or had an interest in some of the fringe "conspiracy" groups... e.g. the folks who are convinced that the Government is doing a "full nervous system" mind-reading surveillance, and radio-wave thought control on people.

The tinfoil-hat brigade seems to have believers in just about every radical part of the political spectrum, left, right, black, white, you name it... anybody can have a paranoid fear of the Powers That Be.

Given the polarization of the current campaign and the choices we are given, a fear of our government seems remarkably rational.

Man, I'm going to go ahead and say- It's so much more Civilized over here than on, say, Facebook regarding these self same topics.

Please, what ever you think is right or wrong, lets us continue to keep it on the higher level we enjoy. please. and Thank You.

The day before, my sister in law told me she suspected my brother was having an affair, or attempting to start one. And this isn't the first time.

She had set up his Facebook account for him, so she knew the password, which she shared with me. Apparently, she trusts me or something, and wanted me to take a look. Turns out her suspicions were true.

She's bisexual, and he had been intending to get a second woman into the relationship without including her in the courtship process, which apparently consists of sending private photos she sent to him to this other woman, whom she doesn't know, and without her permission. Judging from what I read, he was also intending to "get a sample" before even letting his wife know.

This is incredibly frustrating to me because I am pretty certain he would have been much more pissed with her if she did the same thing, and if she had actually slept with someone else behind his back, he'd probably have demanded a divorce if it weren't for their two kids, the second having been born within the last few months.

The messed up part is that, even though I have zero experience being in a sexual relationship, right from the start of the relationship I'd have been smart enough to stipulate that the only time I'd be with another woman would be if the one with whom I am already involved is part of the encounter, and I'd expect the same from her in return. And then I'd do this little thing called keeping my promise.

He doesn't know that I know about it yet. We (his wife and I) are keeping that a secret until later.

OK A.,

Um, wow. And on top of that- some seemingly random first thoughts;

- The ONLY Way To Do THIS is to certainly have the Female involved and the best way to assure success would have to have had the female of the partnership be the active actor in recruitment and securment of said 'third party'.

- Facebook is the Devil, and while I'm still subscribed, I am recently reassured that they did themselves (and more so US) a great disservice when they failed to provide any leadership/direction/Owners' Manual', etc as to proper and expected behavior. Just getting stalled, blocked, and/or tossed out is a very Darwinian/dog-eat-dog process to train the end-users in how to behave.

- Currently playing - Synchronicity II... (see?, seemingly Random Thoughts...)

- Despite many a 'Letter to Penthouse Forum' and the like, these waters are fraught with peril; we Humans don't live long enough to be able to grow enough humanity, maturity, and empathy to be able to actually have whats sometimes come to be known as some kind of an 'Open Relationship'. It takes a lot; hardly is there an equitable result for all concerned, and often there is heartbreak from what might have been an otherwise satisfying and thrilling encounter- even if it's a 'Jump Of the Cliff & See What Happens' type arraignment.

- I can not see how you might intercede, unless you really intercede- and that takes commitment, not only for your own actions and the results, but also for the simple and human reaction where the Boy Scout Coming to the Rescue gets all the blame.

I wont discourage you in your actions, just think it all through and be prepared to give and survive more than you bargained for, even if it's just a strong shoulder in the aftermath. Just be quiet and listen, that might be enough. But if that is all ('all', thats a mighty task in itself...), be sure to apply the required, and not just what's comfortable.

Humans. We be messy.