thunder and lightning

Big rain falling on the factory right now. I feel bad for the drought-stricken areas of the country right now, as they don't have the benefit of afternoon squalls to dump vast amounts of water on the land. And that silly weatherman said it wouldn't rain today.

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News on the manager position at work:

Dear Mr. Penguin-

Thank you for your interest in this position.

We have reviewed your resume and have carefully considered your qualifications.  At this time, we are pursuing other candidates who align more closely with the experience level and skills we are requiring for this position.  We do appreciate your time and want you to know that your resume and profile will remain active in our system for twelve months.  Should a position open that matches your qualifications, we may contact you.  You may also set up a search agent to be notified in the event a position matching your selected criteria is posted to our job board.

Thank you, again, for your interest and we hope you visit www.defensetron.com/careers again soon!

Sincerely,

DefenseTron Recruiting & Staffing

PS: Go fuck yourself.
 

Screw 'em. I'm getting my resume out in the open. As soon as I've got another job, I'm calling their bluff and launching legal action against them. There's grounds for a class-action from the two hundred plus employees that got screwed by these jackasses. This week I found out five of them were being laid off. And guess what? They still can't go back to the old company! Assholes.

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The kids start school on Monday. Tracey got interviewed by NPR this week about it. Hasn't made the air yet. Day before was the main part of the story, but the editor liked the parent angle so much, they parsed it into another segment for a later broadcast. I'm guessing that'll hit the air on Monday. I'll link it when it happens.

There's a good story about the Murphy Oil spill, too, by the same reporter, that airs today.

Plus there's a local story about a guy from Chalmette who's taking a FEMA trailer to the White House to cook dinner for the President and plead for more help for the Gulf Coast. There's even a documentary being made about the fellow (see the trailer in the lower lefthand side.) What's funny about it to me is that I worked for this cat long ago in college when I was a manager at Pizza Hut. Small world. He's a total Chalmatian, too. "Wher'yat, cap?"

New LJ feature fun via molly_girl

We can now do video clips from youtube. molly_girl put me onto that, but she gets a bigger kudo for finding this mashup gem.




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