quote Originally posted by Boondawg: They almost got me covinced that I like MYSELF! When I think about me I touch myself.......

CMD? Should I call you Chuck? (sons of anarchy character)

LINK is NSFW!

http://www.imdb.com/character/ch0170047/quotes

Man, I own page 6!

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quote Originally posted by Back On Holiday: CMD?

Bingo!
But not so much a compulsion as a reckoning......

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Hope you didn't torch too many bridges at your old employer there in Washington or prospective employer in Alaska. Ya never know how things might work out down the road...........

I once left a job for another, and about a year later, wouldn't ya know it--my old employer bought out my new employer's business. Fortunately, I had left on very good terms.

quote Originally posted by maryjane: Hope you didn't torch too many bridges at your old employer there in Washington or prospective employer in Alaska. Ya never know how things might work out down the road...........

Oh no.
I KNOW the score.

With Alaska, I left it as I just couldn't bring myself to the logic of putting my self deeper in debt to get ahead.
He totally understood and wished me luck and said stay in touch, maybe we could work together at a later date.
I said I would be happy too.

At my current job I have been really going the extra mile, doing stuff everyone puts off and don't want to do becouse it sucks.
And they have noticed.
I keep reenforcing how much I like working there and I am only moving on becouse it is the posistion I have spent 26 years building to.
My trainer said I am in good standing with AMF if I ever want to apply for a posistion in the future.

I have been around long enough to know to NEVER go for the instant satisfaction of telling someone exactly what you think of them on your way out.
"It pays to be nice to the people you meet on the way up, for they are the same people you meet on the way down." – Walter Winchell

You mean you didn't do the

bit?

Yesterday my boss commented, "I checked out that new center you are going to."
I was shocked.
I jokingly said, "What, did you tell them how much of a loser I am?"
He said, "No, I didn't talk to anyone, I just wanted to check it out."
I said, "What did you think?"
He said, "It's a really nice place. And I just want you know that if you take the same work ethic that you display here over there, you'll be just fine."

Felt really good.

1 week to go.

quote Originally posted by Boondawg: Yesterday my boss commented, "I checked out that new center you are going to." I was shocked. I jokingly said, "What, did you tell them how much of a loser I am?" He said, "No, I didn't talk to anyone, I just wanted to check it out." I said, "What did you think?" He said, "It's a really nice place. And I just want you know that if you take the same work ethic that you display here over there, you'll be just fine." Felt really good. 1 week to go.

That's great Boonie. A testiment to your work ethic. Sounds like your boss is a stand up guy.

quote Originally posted by Flamberge: That's great Boonie. A testiment to your work ethic. Sounds like your boss is a stand up guy.

Well, I really don't consider myself as having a good work ethic.
At work, I do work, and always find stuff to do, but that is only becouse I don't want to get in trouble.
It's really not all that ethical.

Just revisited this thread after a week or two. Good to hear it things are working out, Boonie. Looks like someone was listening after all.

quote Originally posted by Boondawg: At work, I do work, and always find stuff to do,

That's what a good work ethic is, regardless of the reasoning behind it.

What Flamberge said, Boondawg.

quote Originally posted by heybjorn: What Flamberge said, Boondawg.

I call it self-preservation.

quote Originally posted by Boondawg: Yesterday my boss commented, "I checked out that new center you are going to." I was shocked. I jokingly said, "What, did you tell them how much of a loser I am?" He said, "No, I didn't talk to anyone, I just wanted to check it out." I said, "What did you think?" He said, "It's a really nice place. And I just want you know that if you take the same work ethic that you display here over there, you'll be just fine." Felt really good. 1 week to go.

You're not used to getting compliments? Nobody around here does that, do they?

And that "work ethic" thing? I think the other guys are right. I know the absolute gut-wrenching terror of losing my income is what keeps me motivated at work. As a room mate once asked, after we both started working:

"You ever have the feeling that, someday soon, they'll find out you really have no idea what you're doing?"
Yeah, every once in a, oh, five minutes or so.

And I heard something quasi-encouraging the other day: We never really grow up, we just learn how to act in public.
In other words, Fake it till you make it.

quote Originally posted by Zeb: You're not used to getting compliments? Nobody around here does that, do they?

No, they call me a weak-azz half-a-man loser.........oh, wait, that's my wife.

quote Originally posted by Boondawg: No, they call me a weak-azz half-a-man loser.........oh, wait, that's my wife.

They call your wife a weak-azz half-a-man loser? I can only assume you've killed them by now. If you need any advice on hiding bodies, let me know. Nick still hasn't found the, er, "babysitter." But he's diiging a lot.