Showing posts with label dead end job. Show all posts
Showing posts with label dead end job. Show all posts

Saturday, August 2, 2008

Anthrax Scientist Commits Suicide - Is Case Closed

The fact that the Justice Department would even consider closing a major investigation because the main suspect committed suicide begs the question: "Hasn't anyone on in Washington ever read ANY popular fiction?"

This is totally and completely out of washington crime novel.

Here's what's going to happen:

7 years later -- Our Hero, an ex-Delta Force Squandron Leader who is now a cannonized Catholic Priest hears a confession on death row that puts his life and the lives everyone he knows and loves in danger... because the anthrax thing, goes all the way to the top.

As the story unfoldes, the scientist didn't commit suicide, he was killed and it was staged to look like a suicide. It was the secretary of state and chief of staff that authorized the CIA to use the anthrax to kill a couple of loud opponents to a bill that would have flooded under cover ops worth with money. The anthrax was the brain storm of Lief Errickson, the chief operation officer and top man in the CIA who realized that they could fuel the fires of terrorism fear and remove opponents by blaming the anthrax on terrorism.

While the wrong scientist was under investigation, no one had anything to fear. When the Justice department started to uncover evidence against Hatfill, Errickson knew he would have to move.

The cover up would have worked if.... our hero, Sean O'Malley had just stayed out of it.

In the end, Sean is reunited with his estranged daughter, who he had long given up hope of ever seeing again after she entered into Jonasville cult, but he and his newly reassembled civilian Delta Force team save her from the clutches of the avenging CIA enemy, who snatch her from the organic farm on which she had been living.

Surviving the incident virtually unscathed, Sean thanks God and his buddies.

Is it so hard to imagine.... that the dude didn't commit suicide?

I mean really?

If you are prepared to send anthrax through the mail, knowing it will kill. AND having killed 5 people and sickened 17 other people... AND having sat by while your fellow scientist was investigated .... I mean what the heck.

The least. The VERY LEAST you could do, is wait to get arrested, and/or provide us with a nice long swan song to read... or perhaps a journal of your journey into... INSANITY!

OK. I'm over it.

Like I said, if ANYONE believes this guy committed suicide... you have GOT to be crazy!


--Ms Knowitall--

Wednesday, July 30, 2008

Is it still called a Vacation, if you aren't working?

Dear Opinionated One!
A colleague and I have been arguing over whether you can call a 10 day trip away from home with your girlfriend a vacation, if you aren't working. I am of the opinion that vacation is specific to a period of time that you are paid not to work... where as my friend maintains it is any time that is set aside to do someting out of the ordinary..
- We await your learned and scholarly opinion -

Angry Mike:
Get a job

Ms. Knowitall:
I went to Webster.com
Main Entry:
1. va·ca·tion
Pronunciation: \vā-ˈkā-shən, və-\ Function: noun
Usage: often attributive
Etymology: Middle English vacacioun, from Anglo-French vacacion, from Latin vacation-, vacatio freedom, exemption, from vacare
Date: 14th century
1: a respite or a time of respite from something : intermission
2 a: a scheduled period during which activity (as of a court or school) is suspended b: a period of exemption from work granted to an employee
3: a period spent away from home or business in travel or recreation
4: an act or an instance of vacating

Prior to check with webster (who as we all know is just some guy making up definitions for words) I would have said, that a vacation is specifically a period of time away from work or ... something. (in my case, I could have used a couple more vacations from my X if you know what I mean) Anyway, the more I thought about it, the more I thought that although vacations are usually the luxury of the employed, I suppose a non-earner may be able to enjoy a vacation on the coat tails of another. OK OK before I get a lot of emails from pissed off house wives... I know I know, you guys work very hard. Cut it out now, I'm not talking about you. I'm talking about your 32 year old son, that's living in your basement! HA HA HA HA HA HA HAHA

Lucille the Hair Dresser: Oh No Darlin, you have ta work to get a vacation. Some times you have to be employed for over a yearah before you get paid for that vacation. Otherwise, ... it's called sick days.

Irwin Google Geek: Well, I googled keywords Job and Vacation and I actually came up with a website that promotes a 2 - 3 day vacation doing your dream job. So, it's actually the opposite of everything everyone else said. .. hee hee.. I always find the opposite stuff, because it's out there. So, ah, if you go to http://www.vocationvacations.com/ you will actually see exactly what it says, vocation vacations.. hee hee I think I might do the acting one.. you know, maybe I will get one of the greats, like... ummm... Alex Baldwin or something. Oh Oh, what if I get Arnold Schwartenager, then it would be like a twofer... right! HA HA

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Thanks!
And I apologize for Irwin the Google Geek... he was really excited.

Sunday, July 13, 2008

Top 5 Signs You're in a Dead End Job

Question:
Oh Opinious One: I feel like I'm in a dead end job. What are the top 5 signs it's time to look for another job?
Signed: Stuck in the Muck

Opinion:
Ms Knowitall: I'll check around but here's my opinion
#1) You feel like you are in a dead end job
#2) You look around and realize that most of the people who have worked for the company as long as you..... are losers in a dead end job.
#3) The new hires are temporary and are mostly either college or high school students AND your boss immediately implements several ideas from one or more of the "students" and they are similar to ideas you have been trying to get implemented for months
#4) Your boss had some excuse for not promoting or issuing you a raise at least twice in the last 2 years.
#5) They have hired you an "assistant" that is pretty and perky and knows 1/2 as much as you about the job but you suspect is getting paid almost as much as you. (P.S. The Assistant is your only explanation for the unexplainable leaks of information that you boss seems to find out, but you can't prove it. )

Angry Mike:
Why Work?

Sigmund Fraud
Number 1. You vill not feel challenged or fullfilled but vill decide it is better den rocking da boat.
Number 2. You vill rationalize your misery and may possibly come to tink you deserve no better
Number 3. You vill daydream about vhat you'd really like to do with your life and it is da complete opposite of your current situation.

Lucille The Hair Stylist
Well, I used to work in a dead end job. Working in an office 9-5, pushing papers, answering phones, dealing with the office politics, who's dating who, who's chatting on the phone instead of working, oh and dealing with the customers. Oh, those customers.... I'm so glad I changed careers.
Rita the customer in Lucille's chair: Lucille, when was you an office worka?
Lucille: Oh you know Rita, before I came ta the beauty parla
Rita: Lucille, that must have been atleast 15 years ago
Lucille: Well, yeah, right after highschool, about 25 years ago
Rita: oh, how long did youse work in a office?
Lucille: 1 week, and dat was long enough for me!


Lady walking big German Shepard:
I read somewhere that if there is a change in management or something and all of a sudden you are no longer invited into the meetings about your clients, or something like that, then you should start looking for a new job.

Two Ladies Walking around the Lake:
Lady #1) Oh, If you hate your job. You know, dread getting out of bed and the weekend isn't long enough because you waste Sunday worrying about going to work on Monday, that's terrible. I had a job like that, thank goodness I met Mike.
Lady #2) I had a job where people kept quiting and the company never replaced them. So everyone had to pick up the slack, that was terrible. (pause) Hey, who is Mike? I thought your husbands name was Joe?

Young Couple with Infant:
That's easy, you can't stand going to work. You don't feel like you are appreciated and you can't stand getting up in the morning to go to work.

Random Answers:
You hate your job
You hate your co-workers
You can't stand talking to clients or customers
You haven't had a raise in several years
Someone else keeps getting the praise that you think you deserve
You wake up one morning and find that you are one of the oldest people in the office
Everyone got a generous holiday bonus and you got a walmart gift card
You walk into the break room and everyone stops talking
You notice new people visiting with the boss behind closed doors, almost as if they are candidates on interview... which they probably are
You happen to check the classifieds and see your company has a job opportunity whose description closely matches your job responsibilities
You keep getting assigned as secondary contact for clients, however you do all the work, but the primary contact gets all the credit.

One More Opinion:
Work is like High School. There are clicks (or social circles) and "teachers" pets. Each level of employment has it's own social circles and favoritism. Some industries are more competitive then others and have caps to the levels of achievement allowed. Each person has to decide their own path to happiness. It is never too late to dream. It is never too late to figure out if there is a better path to the destination you have mapped out for yourself. I'm not saying it will be easy, I'm just saying it's never to late to dream, plan............ try

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