Spam SnarkGrabbing Spam and Taking Names Tuesday, April 01, 2003THE HOLY DOCUMENT OF RESIGNATIONR___, My apologies, it was not my intention to do this via e-mail. But my father's condition does not appear to be improving, and it is very important to me that I be by his side should he pass. O.K. Some background here. Up until the point that my boss, "R" received this note the Sneak, "A", had been out on personal days and vacation claiming that his father was sick and in the hospitol. Every 5th day or so he'd show his face at work and claim that his father had gotten a bit better but was still hospitolized. "R" had told me that his father was at a certain cleveland hospitol. Smelling a lie like a fart in a car, I called the hospitol and said that I wanted to send a get well basket of flowers and needed his room number. The nurse at the reception desk said that no paitent by that name was registered. I asked if she could tell me if he had been discharged and she then told me she had no record of such a person being in the hospitol for the last 2 weeks. The next time "A" was in I asked how his father was and what hospitol he was in. New Hospitol "they had to move him". Ok. Same situation panned out. No patient for the last two weeks. It is with bittersweet sentiment that I tender my resignation this morning. NO.. YOU ARE WRONG IT'S ALL SWEET! As I'm certain you are aware, I have been ramping up my freelance efforts in the last 6 months in an attempt to solidify them into a company offering. AH. Admission that no company work was getting done for the last 6 months. Guess he quit and STAYED! Under the auspices of partnerships forged with my sister, a former Key Bank CEO, and several affiliates, my efforts have materialized in the form of a startup software development and marketing firm. As of today, I will be serving as Chief Technology Officer and Senior Executive of C______ T___________, LLC. DAMN! From a "http://www.wowwebdesigns.com/power_guides/overused_techniques.php">3rd rate "Jr" web programmer to a CTO *** AND *** Senior Executive!!! Wow! And his sister was a CEO at Key bank! Holy smokes! Who would have know someone whos 24 could be a CEO! And I thought they had glass ceilings there! I had not planned to tender my resignation for another 2 months. ie:I planned on milking two more months worth of paychecks out of the company while I did PERSONAL work on the companies computers, phones and faxes. However, my father's recent illness, coupled with the increasing growth of the company, has forced me to move sooner than I had expected.Ah! We got a client! And things aren't going right, or so it sounds from all the phone calls I over heard. Yeah.. most of the time my head phones weren't playing music! I regret to inform you that due to my father's illness and the attention he now requires, I will be unable to offer two weeks advanced notice. In fact, I have no choice but to tender my resignation effective immediately. Fine, the sooner the better. Plus what should happen when all those people come to you asking you to do something before you leave! Argh! No you'd be put on the spot and would actually have to work! I will however work in conjunction with you to identify those essentials which my successor will require in order to provide the continued quality of service offered by the ____ Group. Essentials of sitting at a desk, answering phone calls from bill collectors and smoking doesn't require a degree from CWRU! I think we'll be able to handle any "TRAINING" on these "ESSENTIALS" that you did. Does Smoking & Dorito&tm; bindging count? Should you have a need for those services which I performed in my position with ____, and management rejects your request for a replacement, the services of my company, in a vendor capacity, are available to you. O.K. At first both me and my boss paniced! What are we going to do!?! Then after we stopped jumping for joy, we began to realize that "A" had been gone for 6 months. We wouldn't need anyone else. Actually I suggusted we seek legal action to get back 6 months worth of pay, but that was poo pooed! I am hopeful that my father's condition will stabilize enough by tomorrow or Wednesday that I can come in and identify how we will walk through the transition, remove my belongings, and finalize my resignation with HR. I will keep you updated on this as the situation progresses. Walk though the transition? Hell we've sprinted though this and both me and my boss haven't stopped smiling! It was a pleasure working with and for you, and I wish you, D___, L___, ____, and ______ _____, Inc. the very best. Humm.. Pleasure? Thats not what a note entitled DELETEME.TXT said that we found on your desktop, but thats another blog for another time. I have attached a formal copy of my resignation for your records. This is the same copy I will provide HR. I will be in touch today or tomorrow with further information on when I can finalize this with you in person. In the meantime, if you need to contact me you can use any of the following information: Home Office: 440.XXX.XXXX Company Cell: 216.XXX.XXXX Company Email: [DELETED] Personal Email: [DELETED] Best Regards, A_____________ Chief Technology Officer C______ T___________, LLC .: posted by Scales and Pom 8:23 PMYes... it's been one official week since the sneak quit. Found lots of semi interesting documents on his computer. One that even says the HR manager said that my boss was going to fire the sneak! Oh sure. The HR manager said this? Great. Lets bring this up to the HR manager.
.: posted by Scales and Pom 7:42 PMTuesday, March 25, 2003HAPPY DAYS! Someone who should have been fired from where I work, today quit! This is good. Now I have to find something else to complain about .: posted by Scales and Pom 3:24 PMWednesday, March 12, 2003So I never did finish my description of Charlestown W. Va. Guess I was on a roll. Now it's just a past memory. Oh well
.: posted by Scales and Pom 9:32 PMMonday, February 17, 2003Charlestown West Virginia is fun... fun if you like chemical plants, neo apocalyptic American ghost towns circa “Beneath Planet of the Apes”, local economies devoid of mom & pop stores, no suburbs, and a mythical university. Before driving down I had checked to see what the crime rating was for South Charlestown WVA and found it to be a 2 on a scale of one to ten, one being the best, ten being the worst. Comparatively speaking, I live in an area which has an 8 [CLICK HERE] and I've never really seen any violent crime, unless you consider a lovers quarrel that broke into a knife fight, but they knew one another... that doesn't REALLY count. According to BestPlaces.net Charlestown is a great little place. Neat. So lets take a look and find a hotel to stay out. Excellent! Right here in south Charlestown in the Microtel, an inexpensive national chain that I've heard of before. I instant message Linda and say “I think we’re going to be pleasantly surprised by Charlestown West Virginia.”
So, Feb 14th, Valentines Day I drive down to W. Va and follow the directions given to me via MapQuest to get to Microtel. The last bit of directions says to take I 64 West towards Huntington and exit on exit 2. Ok... however, this area looks wrong. This can’t be the correct exit 2. There's what look like a giant LTV plant down in the valley, and according to these directions I'm going there! I get off the exit feel a sinking feeling take over.
Well our hotel window looked right out onto the Bayer chemical plant in South Charleston W.Va. The previous owner of this plant was Dow Chemical who bought Union Carbide. What’s this have to do with anything? Back in "1982 July, hydrogen chloride leaked from a tank car at Union Carbide's Massey yard at South Charleston, West Virginia; several hundred residents were evacuated, a some were treated at the hospital." This was right after the Bhopal India accident where 6000+ people died. No shit... On the first night there it was raining and there was a MASSIVE amount of steam coming out of the plant, and I'm thinking "2! No wonder this place scored a 2 on the crime index. There’s nobody down here and nobody wants to come down here!"
At least the room was cheap. The HVAC in this room was either BROILING HOT or ICE COLD. The sink had cigarette burns all over it, and the toilet seat had marks from cigarettes too! And cheap it was. The toilet paper was made from a material harder than diamonds! The location of the hotel was convenient to nothing other than a 24hr Hardee's (which was closed on Sunday) and the Bayer chemical plant.
Great so here we are in the middle of West Virginia. Lets see what the town has to offer. Lets get something to eat. Maybe something of from a local resturant. Lets check the phone book. Humm... not a whole hell of a lot to choose from. Lets wing it and drive around the city and see if we come across anything that looks good.
Bad idea. First we have no idea where we’re going. Second it's night out and Charesltown doesn't have ANY STREET LITES. Third it's raining. Well it's always was raining down there but I have a feeling it has something to do with the chemical plant.
Driving around Charlestown Linda and I quickly notice that one of the more popular things to do for people of ALL ages is to hang out in front of closed stores. People were hanging out EVERYWHERE in front all types of stores. IGAs, furniture stores, tire stores, funereal homes, tiny out of business office supply stores, chain stores, Tutors Biscuit World Stores anything so long as it had an awning and was devoid of lights.
In a matter of minutes we’d seen 50 plus people hanging out, doing nothing. Some where smoking, but most doing nothing, and it was Friday and it was past 9pm. Where’s all the bars? The pubs? The hole in the walls that hide these people in other citys?
Forty five minutes later we’ve found an Outback Steak House. There is nothing else in this city that looks open other than the Olive Garden, Bennagan’s and Water Grill which are all in the same Mall complex.
END OF DAY ONE
.: posted by Scales and Pom 7:40 PMThursday, February 13, 2003Ok.. screw the Spam test. It failed. Failed badly... So I'm going to use this as my personal blog and show any spam hit it.. so be it. Anyhow... looking around the web tonight for info on Charlestown W. Va and I came across this quote on the AARP site
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