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Topic: Good News and Bad News

Got some good news and some bad news...

As some folks know, my latest boss has had it in for me since shortly after being hired. The last couple months have been complete torture...to the point I think it'd have been more merciful to simply put a bullet in my head like a lamed horse. Without getting too specific, she's essentially made me the scape goat for her failed policies and any attempt to defend myself is explained away to upper management as me simply making excuses. She has the PE and diploma. I don't. She wins. So, to preserve what is left of my emotional and mental health, I am going to be leaving the dark side of gubermental service at the end of June. Hopefully, my self-employment project will be up and running smoothly by that point, but even if it isn't...I'm making my bid to escape. It isn't an easy decision and may lead to my vanishing from interspace for a while but rest assured there is some good news to my impending unemployment.  neutral

The good news about all this is...with the extra time on my hands being unemployed and waiting to hear back from prospective employers I'll have time to recover some from the stress that's been literally crippling my ability to complete the several projects I have in multiple phases. Meaning I may actually get somethings done I've been hinting at/sort of promising for awhile now.  :roll:

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Good luck to you man, I really mean it (I pretty much walked out of a job in the same circumstance years ago and it certainly worked out). That, and we all look forward to the fruits of your pending unemployment!
Cheers,
Erik

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go0gleplex wrote:

I am going to be leaving the dark side of gubermental service at the end of June. Hopefully, my self-employment project will be up and running smoothly by that point, but even if it isn't...I'm making my bid to escape.

Dude... I'm sorry that it came to that, but good for you. wink

Daniel Kast
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I was aware of your on-going problem with the Aparachiks, sorry to hear of the outcome - but the upside is that maybe those that used you as a whipping boy won't have anyone to blame anymore and it will fall down on their pointed little heads...

Having worked for a similiar entity, I can SO identify with this....

Hope you come out better for it - didn't check the forums until this morning....

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Guess it's gonna be a bit sooner than I thought. Haven't been able to even go into city hall the last three days without going into panic mode. sad  Hard to be able to work when you're trying not to pass out.  neutral  See what the doc says this afternoon.

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go0gleplex wrote:

See what the doc says this afternoon.

Better living through chemistry! big_smile

Daniel Kast
Majestic Twelve Games
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cricket wrote:
go0gleplex wrote:

See what the doc says this afternoon.

Better living through chemistry! big_smile

Already on Ativan (drug #5 in the series) and 50k of vita D and a B12 supplement.  This really sucks.

HR just told me not to even try to come back without a doctor's release... :oops:

Update: Of all the...just read the letter from HR sent to be opened by my doctor, wherein they expressed their concerns relating to me going postal on them at the office, pending comments made from 2004, 2007, and recently...everyone of which was related as snippets of a full conversation and taken completely out of context. Idiots.

Anyhow...doc sent them a letter back recommending a 30-day medical leave due to stress. (ie. my PTSD is in full flare and they need to stop feeding pure oxygen into the furnace) Also getting tried out on drug #6...(blech).  neutral

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Sounds to me like they've had a problem in their department that merited a whipping boy since '04.

I'd write a letter (or have one written) stating that the statements were taken out of context - I'd also get a lawyer. Wouldn't try to save the job, but go for their pocketbook. Large settlements have a way of making unemployment more enjoyable from what I've heard.
big_smile

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Agreed.  If you can prove that they are 'screwing you over', the settlement money is a nice way of make your life happier!

-Bren
Ps. Sucks this is happening...

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One of the things about entering "adult life" is to find a way of making a living that suits you tempermentally. The unfortunate fact of life is that all too often you've got jerks that - for whatever reason - see their job as an excuse to make other people's lives miserable - or in my case, not very well-paid.  sad

It's something that I tried to get my son to understand, and I've tried to get him set up to do what he wants to do for a living, while making a decent wage.

I can tolerate my currrent employment, but it's not what I want to do - I am, however, good enough at it that my employer thinks I'm just another expendable cog. Getting passable wages and a pension is better than being a starving artist.  Having spent a time in my life when hunger was a concern, I can assure you that being a starving artist is not something you'd want anything to do with....


So, Todd, you've got 30 days to get things in order? I assume you're looking for employment or getting your new venure underway...

How's drug #6 working out for ya?

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Sorry folks. Not been ignoring anyone. My phone and internet went bellyup Wed evening last week...storm screwed up the house line and I just got things back (and a new line installed) about 15 minutes ago. (it now being monday evening)

The unfortunate thing with trying to take on the city is that I have no proof of anything and nothing they've put in writing has any teeth to it. But I'm also not the only one who's having issues with the work environment. The two new guys are gritting their teeth as well and our admin assistant has been getting hammered as much as I have been. Funny how one class A upchuck in charge can derail an entire department.

The new med seems to be workin okay. It's to keep me from hamster wheeling my thoughts. Haven't been able to work on the new venture since no phone...which means tonite's advisory call should be short and somewhat interesting. Got all my articles of incorporation, which I'll get sent off this week now that I'm not humming like an overtighted violin string.  As to new employment, I'd need to be making 45k a year and thanks to 10 years of skill stagnation at the city (they have a policy of no out of state education/workshops/training) I'm no longer fit to work in my current profession anywhere else without extensive re-training/skills upgrades. (This of course being considered nothing but an excuse and inconsequential to the city per the HR Director of course).