The Generic Support Group Thread - Page 8

xoxoxoBruce · 12-09-2005, 08:40 PM

OK, glad to know you're still alive.....but that post was a tease.

zippyt · 12-09-2005, 08:55 PM

Sorry to hear about you losing your job .

Now whats the skinny minnie ????
Whats the haps chap ????
Whats the deal McNeal ???

Did they catch you surfing for Goat porn again ?????
( just kidding dude )

Elspode · 12-10-2005, 03:08 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by marichiko

Tell us who you worked for so we can send them anonymous hate mail.

Hell with that. I'll include my name and address.

xoxoxoBruce · 12-12-2005, 09:20 PM

I've seen V lurking. Wonder when we'll get an update?

12-12-2005, 09:43 PM

Yes, I've seen V lurking, too. I wish he would post and tell us he's surviving or going postal or whatever. It always helps to get feedback from your friends, my friend.

And I'm with Patrick, I'd proudly sign my real name and address on any hate mail directed toward your former employer as long as it didn't boomerang back on you.

Speak, Big V!

BigV · 12-12-2005, 10:58 PM

I am here.

I have been unable to completely disconnect myself from this community, though the news was a terrible blow, and I have written very little in the interim. I have been quite democratic in my silence. Practically no one has heard from me. Please do not feel as though I have singled you (plural) out for shunning. I am still processing all the changes the news has wrought.

For instance, just today I had another epiphany: I gave my job away. Certainly an argument for that analysis could be made. That stung. Like when Wile E. steps on the rake and it levers up and smacks him in the face. Only I got the bonus of having the little tweeting birdies shit in my eye as they twittered derisively in their mocking orbit.

*shrugs, inhales deeply, exhales*

No, I'm not bitter.

Trilby · 12-13-2005, 04:40 AM

BigV, BigV-- *hugs*

Everything I write sounds so trite and stupid...but, the Universe loves you and knows what you need. You will be ok.

mrnoodle · 12-13-2005, 10:14 AM

BigV, having been on the receiving end of a firing that I wasn't expecting, I know something about what you're feeling. I didn't handle it well, and in retrospect, the biggest mistake I made was allowing the defeat to sap my energy. It's okay to wallow around the house in your underwear for a day or two, but the sooner you rejoin society, the better off you'll be.

Do something -- any job. Swallow your stung pride (and this is the hardest part), and find ANYTHING that requires you to wake up in the morning, put on your shoes, and get somewhere by 8 a.m. to work for someone. Not a career-type job, necessarily, but something. You need the ritual, or else a worse ritual will take its place: sleeping till 11, drinking gallons of coffee, smoking bales of weed, surfing the net and playing games until 3 a.m. Or maybe that was just my ritual. But you get the idea.

When you're not working at the car wash/retail establisment/lawnmowing service, get your resume together and spam the living daylights out of every company you can think of. It feels nice to be able to quit the Walmart job to get back into your profession. The important thing is that when you go to interview, you have that aura of confidence and determination....hard to come by if you are slumming on the couch between interviews.

You can pull out of this. Good luck.

xoxoxoBruce · 12-13-2005, 07:46 PM

You nailed it, mrnoodle. Went through that myself.

xoxoxoBruce · 12-16-2005, 06:22 PM

OK, V. So you're going to wait for the dust to settle, you've found a better job and reestablished your self-esteem, before we get the skinny, huh?

Silly wabbit, we love you anyway.

BigV · 12-19-2005, 11:49 AM

I have mentioned in other threads my behavior regarding high stakes events, like tests, interviews, etc. I get increasingly nervous in the run up to the starting gun, then I'm ok. Like the tortuously slow and inexorable clanking ride to the top of the first hill on a (unknown, possibly unsafe, no safeties--gah, must stop--freakin myself out) rollercoaster, my stress level also rises.

Today I'm riding that train up up up. Submitting first application in a minute (or so).

I think I need to submit the app, *then* come back and post my verbiage for proofing, etc. I don't wish to procrastinate any further.

God.

At the top now, looking down from the front seat. The weight of the trailing cars is only momentarily delaying the inevitable...

Aaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!

BigV · 12-19-2005, 02:35 PM

f*ckf*ckf*ckf*ckf*ckf*ckf*ckf*ckf*ckf*ckf*ckf*ckf*ckf*ckf*ckf*ckf*ckf*ck

I'm not hungry, not thirsty, don't have to pee, dog doesn't need walking, not expecting the mail for several hours, don't have anywhere to be or do just right now, and yet I can't get this on paper!!!

I am so frustrated/fearful/stressed that the impression I'll make will be not right enough that I sweat (understatement, that) the details right into a tight hard knot. I am paralyzed by perfection, or my search for it. I can't move. It's fuckin pathetic.

xoxoxoBruce · 12-20-2005, 05:05 AM

I hope to hell your talking about a resume or application and not a posting.

Chill, man.
Now breathe...in...out..in..out.
OK, you can do this with your eyes closed. One word in front of the other. Go slow, build a rhythm, a cadence, left, right, left, right......
There, see how easy that is.....you're a natural.......you're... BIG V!

BigV · 12-20-2005, 09:04 AM

I worked my small smooth brain to the bone last night getting the resume ready for prime time. I *think* it's ready. I need one set of eyes to check for those invisible errors. For example, in final draft-3 last night, DaughterofV asked, "Dad, do you want a period at the end of this first paragraph?"

That kind of stuff. In my estimation, it's a deal killer if you have a tyop on your stinkin resume. Seriously.

I found myself veryvery easily distracted yesterday on this issue. It's important, high stakes, professional stuff, and I couldn't deliver. I do think I have the product ready now though, and I will submit what I have this morning, regardless. Even more than my need for "perfection" is my need for "food", so I'll suppress my bad feelings about what I've written and concentrate on the 90% useful part and **deliver** that. Better mostly there than perfectly unsubmitted, y'know?

LabRat · 12-20-2005, 12:09 PM

Yeah, then when someone who pissed you off is up for dish duty, you can get 'em back...

Our lab is pretty small (7 people). We all clean up after ourselves. The one person who tends to leave her stuff to 'soak' for extended periods usually ends up with the dirty item(s) on her desk. Unwashed. That usually keeps her in line.

She is also the only one who leaves leftovers in the fridge long to mutate into unrecognizable.

12-09-2005, 08:40 PM	#106
xoxoxoBruce The future is unwritten Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 71,105	OK, glad to know you're still alive.....but that post was a tease. __________________ The descent of man ~ Nixon, Friedman, Reagan, Trump.

12-09-2005, 08:55 PM	#107
zippyt LONG LIVE KING ZIPPY! per Feetz Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: Arkansas Posts: 7,661	Sorry to hear about you losing your job . Now whats the skinny minnie ???? Whats the haps chap ???? Whats the deal McNeal ??? Did they catch you surfing for Goat porn again ????? ( just kidding dude ) __________________ "Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get. " Brother Dave Gardner

12-12-2005, 09:20 PM	#109
xoxoxoBruce The future is unwritten Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 71,105	I've seen V lurking. Wonder when we'll get an update? __________________ The descent of man ~ Nixon, Friedman, Reagan, Trump.

12-12-2005, 10:58 PM	#111
BigV Goon Squad Leader Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Seattle Posts: 27,063	I am here. I have been unable to completely disconnect myself from this community, though the news was a terrible blow, and I have written very little in the interim. I have been quite democratic in my silence. Practically no one has heard from me. Please do not feel as though I have singled you (plural) out for shunning. I am still processing all the changes the news has wrought. For instance, just today I had another epiphany: I gave my job away. Certainly an argument for that analysis could be made. That stung. Like when Wile E. steps on the rake and it levers up and smacks him in the face. Only I got the bonus of having the little tweeting birdies shit in my eye as they twittered derisively in their mocking orbit. shrugs, inhales deeply, exhales No, I'm not bitter. __________________ Be Just and Fear Not.

12-13-2005, 04:40 AM	#112
Trilby Slattern of the Swail Join Date: Jul 2004 Posts: 15,654	BigV, BigV-- hugs Everything I write sounds so trite and stupid...but, the Universe loves you and knows what you need. You will be ok. __________________ In Barrie's play and novel, the roles of fairies are brief: they are allies to the Lost Boys, the source of fairy dust and ...They are portrayed as dangerous, whimsical and extremely clever but quite hedonistic. "Shall I give you a kiss?" Peter asked and, jerking an acorn button off his coat, solemnly presented it to her. —James Barrie Wimminfolk they be tricksy. - ZenGum

12-12-2005, 09:43 PM	#110
marichiko Guest Posts: n/a	Yes, I've seen V lurking, too. I wish he would post and tell us he's surviving or going postal or whatever. It always helps to get feedback from your friends, my friend. And I'm with Patrick, I'd proudly sign my real name and address on any hate mail directed toward your former employer as long as it didn't boomerang back on you. Speak, Big V!

12-13-2005, 10:14 AM	#113
mrnoodle bent Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: under the weather Posts: 2,656	BigV, having been on the receiving end of a firing that I wasn't expecting, I know something about what you're feeling. I didn't handle it well, and in retrospect, the biggest mistake I made was allowing the defeat to sap my energy. It's okay to wallow around the house in your underwear for a day or two, but the sooner you rejoin society, the better off you'll be. Do something -- any job. Swallow your stung pride (and this is the hardest part), and find ANYTHING that requires you to wake up in the morning, put on your shoes, and get somewhere by 8 a.m. to work for someone. Not a career-type job, necessarily, but something. You need the ritual, or else a worse ritual will take its place: sleeping till 11, drinking gallons of coffee, smoking bales of weed, surfing the net and playing games until 3 a.m. Or maybe that was just my ritual. But you get the idea. When you're not working at the car wash/retail establisment/lawnmowing service, get your resume together and spam the living daylights out of every company you can think of. It feels nice to be able to quit the Walmart job to get back into your profession. The important thing is that when you go to interview, you have that aura of confidence and determination....hard to come by if you are slumming on the couch between interviews. You can pull out of this. Good luck. __________________ Sìn a nall na cuaranan sin. -- Cha mhór is fheairrde thu iad, tha iad coltach ri cat air a dhathadh

12-13-2005, 07:46 PM	#114
xoxoxoBruce The future is unwritten Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 71,105	You nailed it, mrnoodle. Went through that myself. __________________ The descent of man ~ Nixon, Friedman, Reagan, Trump.

12-16-2005, 06:22 PM	#115
xoxoxoBruce The future is unwritten Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 71,105	OK, V. So you're going to wait for the dust to settle, you've found a better job and reestablished your self-esteem, before we get the skinny, huh? Silly wabbit, we love you anyway. __________________ The descent of man ~ Nixon, Friedman, Reagan, Trump.

12-19-2005, 11:49 AM	#116
BigV Goon Squad Leader Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Seattle Posts: 27,063	I have mentioned in other threads my behavior regarding high stakes events, like tests, interviews, etc. I get increasingly nervous in the run up to the starting gun, then I'm ok. Like the tortuously slow and inexorable clanking ride to the top of the first hill on a (unknown, possibly unsafe, no safeties--gah, must stop--freakin myself out) rollercoaster, my stress level also rises. Today I'm riding that train up up up. Submitting first application in a minute (or so). I think I need to submit the app, then come back and post my verbiage for proofing, etc. I don't wish to procrastinate any further. God. At the top now, looking down from the front seat. The weight of the trailing cars is only momentarily delaying the inevitable... Aaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh! __________________ Be Just and Fear Not.

12-19-2005, 02:35 PM	#117
BigV Goon Squad Leader Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Seattle Posts: 27,063	fckfckfckfckfckfckfckfckfckfckfckfckfckfckfckfckfckfck I'm not hungry, not thirsty, don't have to pee, dog doesn't need walking, not expecting the mail for several hours, don't have anywhere to be or do just right now, and yet I can't get this on paper!!! I am so frustrated/fearful/stressed that the impression I'll make will be not right enough that I sweat (understatement, that) the details right into a tight hard knot. I am paralyzed by perfection, or my search for it. I can't move. It's fuckin pathetic. __________________ Be Just and Fear Not.

12-20-2005, 05:05 AM	#118
xoxoxoBruce The future is unwritten Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 71,105	I hope to hell your talking about a resume or application and not a posting. Chill, man. Now breathe...in...out..in..out. OK, you can do this with your eyes closed. One word in front of the other. Go slow, build a rhythm, a cadence, left, right, left, right...... There, see how easy that is.....you're a natural.......you're... BIG V! __________________ The descent of man ~ Nixon, Friedman, Reagan, Trump.

12-20-2005, 09:04 AM	#119
BigV Goon Squad Leader Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Seattle Posts: 27,063	I worked my small smooth brain to the bone last night getting the resume ready for prime time. I think it's ready. I need one set of eyes to check for those invisible errors. For example, in final draft-3 last night, DaughterofV asked, "Dad, do you want a period at the end of this first paragraph?" That kind of stuff. In my estimation, it's a deal killer if you have a tyop on your stinkin resume. Seriously. I found myself veryvery easily distracted yesterday on this issue. It's important, high stakes, professional stuff, and I couldn't deliver. I do think I have the product ready now though, and I will submit what I have this morning, regardless. Even more than my need for "perfection" is my need for "food", so I'll suppress my bad feelings about what I've written and concentrate on the 90% useful part and deliver that. Better mostly there than perfectly unsubmitted, y'know? __________________ Be Just and Fear Not. Last edited by BigV; 12-20-2005 at 09:41 AM.

12-20-2005, 12:09 PM	#120
LabRat twatfaced two legged bumhole Join Date: Jun 2004 Posts: 3,143	Yeah, then when someone who pissed you off is up for dish duty, you can get 'em back... Our lab is pretty small (7 people). We all clean up after ourselves. The one person who tends to leave her stuff to 'soak' for extended periods usually ends up with the dirty item(s) on her desk. Unwashed. That usually keeps her in line. She is also the only one who leaves leftovers in the fridge long to mutate into unrecognizable. __________________ Strength does not come from how much weight you can lift, or how many miles you can run. It comes from knowing that you set a goal, and rose to the challenge. Strength comes from within.

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