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The 'post is toast!
posted on 09/01/2005 at 8:17 pm |
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We all knew it would happen someday, and that day has come.
We were told the regional manager was coming for a visit, and even before he showed up it struck me as odd that no one was asked to (1) clean up the building at all or (2) otherwise behave themselves. Though apparently, I was too stupid to make a connection.
Anyway, he was this little guy slightly older than me, in a gray wool suit and paler than I am (yes, that's possible). We went in to meet with him 7 or 8 at a time, and he dropped the bomb: The Connecticut call center closes on November 21. We are all invited to relocate to the new call center in San Jose, California. Fry's will pay for us to move our shit, and that's about it. Not surprisingly, he didn't mention a cost of living adjustment. (I looked it up online afterwards, and it'd be at least 20%.)
The regional manager was a typical Fry's piece of work. And by that I mean, he was clearly excited about the prospect of his finally stopping regional travel to run a call center -- which he's never done before! And obviously, all of us are gonna go out to California, where the weather is better and the sports teams suck more but that's okay because it'll just be great and come on guys! We're already profitable, but we're gonna make even more money! Bring the magic to CA! He spent ten minutes trying to chat up the people in the room, and meanwhile I'm thinking, can I just go to my phone please?
Before anyone asks, I'm fine. I'm in the I Guess This Means It's Time For Me To Get Off My Ass camp. That's a better place to be than the I Just Bought A House camp, or the I Quit My Previous Job And The Manager Hired Me Knowing Perfectly Well This Was Coming camp.
More as this unfolds, I'm sure. |
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normal mc
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7293 posts
09/01/2005
8:41 pm
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Ha!
I knew this was coming two weeks ago and kept my mouth shut!
I am a terrible friend.
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gnomeloaf
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941 posts
09/01/2005
9:46 pm
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I figured you probably knew when you were eerily silent on the comeback thing after a certain point.
Honestly, I'm glad I didn't know because the temptation to warn the people I can actually stand would have been too great. But that whole hiring people who quit jobs to work there was totally shitty, no matter how you look at it.
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the snerly
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671 posts
09/02/2005
9:37 am
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So are you gonna move to Cali or what? Man, I would, if I were single...
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gnomeloaf
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941 posts
09/02/2005
11:50 am
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Some people are saying they're strongly considering it, and they do tend to be single or near-single. I'd still be hesitant because underpaid in Connecticut is terrifyingly underpaid in the Bay Area.
For me as it stands, it's a no-brainer on the no. I've got a house they won't help me sell, a kid I'd rather not uproot, and a husband whose employment is the swing vote. And besides, I was always rather uneasy about working for Satan anyway.
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gnomeloaf
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941 posts
09/03/2005
4:46 pm
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I've been thinking about comment #1.
Norm, I really, really hope that there is some other, better reason for you saying that than hoping it serves as just punishment for me being a terrible friend.
I ended up spending Arfiegras weekend in Rochester because that's when my grandmother's memorial Mass was.
I hemmed and hawed about the 13th before that because my aunts and my mother suspected my grandma was going to die. (She had Alzheimer's that played from start to finish over less than 4 years, which in and of itself has been no fun.) The service bumped right up against my daughter's birthday and a vacation that had been planned for months. Which I wasn't about to screw with because it was with my parents, and my mom herself almost saw Carl in person earlier this year, and I learned something about priorities when that happened. I had no idea what the hell was going on with the 13th until literally the Thursday afternoon before, and by then I was in Rochester.
Had I known I needed to submit the essay above ahead of time so as not to incur anyone's wrath, I might have. Or, I might have told you to fuck off. Hard to say right now, honestly.
If I'm wrong about your motivations? Fine -- I know I'm punchy right now, no harm, no foul, my mistake, I'm sorry, retraction. But if you said that to be spiteful rather than, say, not saying anything at all? I'll have never said "whatever" and meant it more than I do now.
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normal mc
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7293 posts
09/04/2005
11:04 pm
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I apologize. Another friendship fucked up by me I guess!
You're not a terrible friend. I am! Ask anyone I know.
No ulterior motive, just laziness. Again, sorry.
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one4k4
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1071 posts
09/13/2005
1:46 pm
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Lets all hug and make love.
And gnome... I'm helping one friend search for a job at the moment (a "Katrina refugee moving to CT) but if you shoot me an email, and desire the help, I shall. :)
/I was kidding about making love.
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