Wow, can you say "totally forgotten about"?  If ever I needed this, it has been these last three months.

Let's see...I was fired from my job of 7 1/2 years back in April.  The reason I was given was "performance", though in all that time I had never been written up, reprimanded, coached, counseled, etc. ever.  I found out later that week that I, along with another person who had been fired that day, that the General Manager stood up in front of the entire office and accussed both of us of deliberately sabotaging the release of our latest project, which was why it was so far behind.  He did, however, fail to mention the part about how he gave an absolutely unrealistic timeline for project launch and when he was told this, became very irrate.

So I've been looking for work for the last three months.  I have had some good interviews and even had some almost jobs but for one reason or another, something has always gone sideways.  I almost had a job at the company my best friend works for...right up until the person I was interviewing with decided to put in her two week notice.  All of her responsibilities, including my hiring, were given to her replacement.  I met with him only once.  it was about a 10 minute interview in which he didn't bother to bring my resume with him, didn't know that I had gone through 3 other interviews (one of which included a training session mock up with a panel interview), and then decided that I wasn't qualified.  That position is still open.

And now the kicker.  I had a great interview at a company up in Carlsbad that I really wanted.  I had been in touch with the owner, who had told me she would be making the decision this Monday.  Well, Monday came and went and I heard nothing.  I waited all day Tuesday with still nothing.  I followed up with her today and guess what, she wanted to hire me.  Only problem was that she called the wrong number to leave me a message and when she didn't hear from me (because I never got the offer), she moved on to another candidate.  Three fucking months of just pimping myself to try and get hired, busting my ass, sending out literally hundreds of resumes, to have one of the jobs I wanted being delivered to the WRONG GODDAMNED VOICEMAIL!!!!!!! Fucking bollocks cocksucker motherfucker shit shit shit shit!!!!

It's just not fair!  Who did I totally fuck in a previous life that I am now having to pay off this HUGE karmic debt?  Seriously, I'm sorry for whatever it was I did.  Please show some mercy because I don't think I can get kicked in the head much more.

11/09/07

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So, here I sit in Midway airport waiting for my flight to arrive so I can fly back home to San Diego. This has been an adventure to say the least. The weather has been cold and the trip not what I had hoped it would be. If our projects are given over to the two people I was training, we are going to be in a great deal of trouble. Neither of them, I feel, fully grasps the whole concept of how the projects work and what they really entail. I had one who was trying to build 4 letter templates by only looking at one and the other putting so many convoluted steps and processes in her project it would be impossible at best to manage.

I really feel this would still be best served if it was kept with us and not outsourced to them. I do not think they could handle the daily changes as they are used to either annual or bi-annual changes to the projects they manage.

Coming to the airport has been interesting too. We left the corporate office at 12:30 p.m. because we didn’t have anything else we could do. I’ve been here at since about 2 p.m. I tried to get an earlier flight, but couldn’t validate spending the $151 to upgrade. So, I’ve been waiting since my flight doesn’t leave until 6:35 p.m., provided the flight is on time.

Southwest has changed their boarding procedure and yet people, after being told at least 4 times to not begin lining, they are already lining up. Humans are a stupid race. None of them are sitting down even after the attendant told them again to not line up. They just stared at her like she couldn’t be speaking to them and continued to ignore her. These idiots have not only ignored directions, but are blocking the gate for the people who need to get off the plane. Way to go there Captain You Planet. Must be nice to be special like that…either that or too stupid to follow simple instructions.

I saw an actual pimp while I as heading to my gate. He was in a very blue suit and looked just like the men from Pimps Up Hos Down.

It will be nice to get home and out of this cold weather. I am way too accustomed to the warmth of San Diego to tolerate this kind of cold for too long. I know that I’m not equipped for cold weather when my “warm” coat is what could be considered a spring jacket. Oh well, it served its purpose and is more than sufficient for San Diego weather

We’ll see how this trip impacts San Diego Operations and Imaging in general. I really hope that we can maintain the non-GM product in house instead of it going to the corporate office. If it does, it will be a disaster waiting to happen.