Legion World Forums LEGION OUTPOST Mission Monitor Board The Moaning, Groaning, I just want to Vent thread

So, a week before my license was up, I had to renew my bond. Go to the bank, wire transfer the money. They get the money, say the bond will be overnighted. Way they say it, it would go straight to the DMV. No problem. Today, DMV investigator shows up, they haven't received the bond. Get on the phone. Bond was sent to Scranton, PA instead of Scranton, SC. Insurance company had called DMV and informed them of problem. DMV set it aside. Only they didn't inform the investigator, a really decent fellow that still has a job to do. So, my license is suspended until I can get the bond to them, which is supposed to be here tomorrow.

And folks are wondering why I'm pissed at work.

Sorry to rant about work AGAIN but I just got the news on the lovely new "retention" package the company rolled out.

So, its a great package if you bought your first house after 2005 or are renting. Fantastic really, a $1500 payment/month directly onto the principle of your mortgage.

Now the thing is, most people (myself included) buy whatever they can afford to start, then in 2 or 3 years sell that place and buy a good house...which is what I (and about 75% of my co-workers) have done.

And if you are in a second (or third) home, you are not qualified. So, basically a guy can get hired of the street, make the same wage as me (excluding plant qualifications) and get a mortgage subsidy, while I and almost everyone else who are saddled with the same outrageous mortgages get a slap in the face and a kick in the nuts.

Fuck you Suncor, applications going in elsewhere as soon as I confirm my references. Have fun running an upgrader with a bunch of 19 year olds straight out of school who don't know which end to hold a valve wrench by

Speaking of work, I can't believe I'm saying this. But... I have to start looking around again.

I have now temped at my current site for over a year. That's more than enough time for them to, uh... poop or get off the pot. I like my hours, my work, and almost everyone I work with. The wage is generous to a point that I'm likely to never see again in this lifetime.

But... My boss is clearly going to leave me dangling until that split second when some budgetary ruling from on high commands her to pull the plug. In all this accrued time I have not earned one single minute's vacation time, nor one second of sick time, nor... much of anything really, except a slight cessation of my monstrous personal debt. (Hey, my minimum credit card payment per month is now seven dollars less than it was at the beginning of this year! Go, Me!)

Also, she generally leaves me alone, but she is nasty as hell to several of the other employees, and honestly: Watching other people being treated like crap makes me feel crappy.

In the current job market, to wait until I'm fired/laid off to start looking would be suicide. So I have to start now. I am SO not looking forward to this.

I'm sorry you have to go through this again, cle.

On the other hand, you do have a significant advantage. Since you are still employed, you may find something better. And if you don't lose your job, you'll have lost nothing for trying.

I do not like winter.

I do not like it in a house
I do not like it with a mouse
I do not like it in a car
I do not like it at a bar
I do not like it with a Christmas tree
I do not like it on a ski


I do not like winter.

(although I have to admit that falling snow can look very pretty)

I always seem to run into bad luck on vacations abroad. I thought I'd broken the curse with my second-to-the-last trip, but the last one restarted the chain of unfortunate events.

...quickly checks headlines for fallout clouds sweeping across the Earth.

This is day 5 of the flu. I'm bout sicka it.

Get well soon, Rick.

Thanks, He Who. I'm doing better, not over it yet, but better.

Getting sick about being sick only perpetuated the problem.

I hope you're well by now, rick!

Thanks all. I'm better, still got a case of the running snots, but other than that I'm good.

I got the flu too. I think what's most annoying about it is that some symptoms (cough, snots) last for so very long after. Glad you're better!

I thought I was ill. But it snot what I thought it was.

That pun just made me ill again.

Yay! borrowing Drura's powers pays off!

Drat. I haven't even fully recovered from my last illness!

You and Rick both recently ill? Two Legion Worlders in proximity to the fictional Infectious Lass both ill? Coincidence? Really?

It must be a secret plot to bring LW down from the inside!

Well, as Time Trapper Rickshaw1, when I get the flu, bad things happen. For one, all the whiskey turned to turnip juice. When I sneeze, little bullets of dandelion shoot out my nose, and once, when I pppharted, Imsk was moved eleven degrees over. Problem was, it was so small by then, a passing trash ship warped over it and unloaded a shipment of Vantha-pee.

So, where's Drura again? Got a lil' sum'in sum'in for her.

Who knew that the deity the Imskians feared most, was the God of flatulence?

I will kill Danny Chase and rub Marv Wolfman's nose in it.

I will kill Congorilla and rub James Robinson's nose in it.

I will kill Cinder and rub Eric Wallace's nose in it.

I will kill Green Arrow and rub J.T. Krul's nose in it.

I will kill the entire Braddock Academy and rub Dennis Hopeless' nose in it.

I will become a God of Death and my pen shall be my scythe as I wreak havoc and misery upon those who have earned my ire.

EARNED.

MY.

IRE.

...well that helped me feel better about Superboy 28's solicits for February. (No it didn't I'm still p'oed)

Sorry guys. Olympia at the nursing home kind of drained me today and learning about Superboy didn't help.

Huge blister on left big toe. Gonna make work tomorrow interesting. At least it is only 8 hours.