Trambo

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<-- 5 years, including that l'il scuffle in the sandbox called Desert Shield. Lost good friends when those fucking cowards called Al Qaeda bombed the Khobar Towers in Saudi Arabia. Most of them were on their first enlistment. Not familiar with that one? Lemme show you: 19 US Airmen died that night. I consider all of them heroes. My vote says "Any years of service makes a veteran". Especially the ones who serve during wartime.

WTF happened to this thread??!? I'm slamming a few brews tonight to dull the pain from a nearly 300 mile ride tosay. Drink, bitches!!!!

Happy Crimmis, Oh-Hi-Oh. Drink up!

Hell yes. You damn sure won't need that liver in the afterlife.

Tyler; I wish you the best. I want to share my recent work experience with you. Back in October, I was "offered" a "promotion" as well. The Corporation wanted to increase my workload by approximately 30%. I was already a salaried employee, and working on average 50-60 hours weekly. In the busy season, I was working 80-90 hours a week... that season lasted 3 months for us. I asked if there would be a pay increase, or ANY compensation for the "promotion". There was none. In fact, it was then made very clear to me that declining this "promotion" would probably mean being laid off. Frankly, I was already at the end of my rope there, so I politely declined their "offer" and was subsequently laid off. The very next day, my job responsibilities were dumped on another manager... who immediately resigned. The duties were again reassigned to a new manager, and they also quit. Two weeks later, the Corporation laid off 120 managers (ALL of them with my specialty), and just a few weeks ago, they laid off another 50+ managers again. What is my point, exactly?? Well, for one, I would not accept additional work for no additional pay, regardless of the possible outcome. That may actually be illegal in some places (research this!!) I know there are plenty of folks who would call that stupid, hey, whatever. Never sell yourself youself short. My next point is, you NEVER know what will happen in a corporation, company or business. Here today, gone tomorrow. Your best course of action is to invest heavily in your retirement (401(k) or IRA, whatever) and savings, to be ready for these moments. Thank God we have a good savings to carry us through this. I have been laid off 3 times now in 10 years. It sucks. This is the first time, however, where it was even slightly attributable to my actions. The other 2 times were companies that went under from their own shitty business practices. Gone are the old days, when you worked for a company 30-40 years, retired with your gold watch & stock options, and lived happily ever after. Corporations now are all the same; they trim costs anywhere they can; overwork/underpay employees whenever possible; cut costs/benefits/perks everywhere. People are numbers, to be manipulated however necessary to improve the bottom line & pay that quarterly dividend. My advice is to look out for YOU. If they want more work from you, make them pay you for it. My secondary advice is to save, plan for retirement, and ALWAYS have a "rainy day fund" ready. /soapbox

1st crash, I went through all the trouble of shipping that piece of shit back to MicroFuck. 2nd crash, I stripped that fucker of all valuable parts, and trashed it. Fuck MS and their faulty shit. PS3 FTMFW.

Just drinking for the sheer hell of it tonight.

Not anymore.

Sporting the Guinness Extra Foreign Stout tonight. Damn this is good shit.

I refuse to believe that no one is drinking tonight. Holiday weekend. Saturday night.

*Ahem* -wink-

Free booze = Win.

:make me a sammich dammit: Damn. Need a new sign.