chileanseabass

well, you my friend are lucky! :thumbsup: i play hockey with guys who work for the largest companies in charlotte, and they're basically treated like crap. they're all jealous of my perks, and i want their paychecks.

gotta agree with you on that one. i could make 20K more at a larger company, but my coworkers are great (we're a company of 10), i get 4 weeks paid vacation anually, and i can come and go as i please to accommodate my 3 year old son and his daycare schedule. my boss is a tightwad and can be a major ass (plus he's french), but he's been nothing but supportive through my divorce and has given me a few free days to deal with stuff. at the end of 2011 i'll have been on the road for 115 days, and starting in 2012, i'll be done traveling. as much as i enjoy the international travel, at this point of my life, i need to be with my son as much as possible. the divorce has been really hard on him, and he doesn't like staying with his mom on her nights. i told my boss for my peace of mind and the well being of my kid, i couldn't do the travel anymore, and he said no problem and is basically giving me a promotion (no raise though... like i said, a tightwad). i know i wouldn't get the same perks working for a large company.

yeah, it's friday! boo, i have to stay an hour later than normal, because of our annual summer company dinner at my boss's house. no point in driving 30 minutes home to turn around and drive back.

oh, yeah we had it all taken care of. what happened is his right one got twisted and it never fully formed or descended, so they had to go in there and remove whatever small semi-nut had begun to form. then they made his left nut so it can never get twisted. he was a month old when he had the operation. easily the longest three hours of my life.

i won't bring the ongoing dvorce talk to this thread, but i will stick with the nut talk. my 2.5 year old son was only born with one nut. i know you only need one to get the job done, but it kinda sucks for him.

Sounds like my boss. He'll come in really early, go into my office and flip the lights on to snoop around, and then leave without shutting them off. Then I arrive an hour later and know he's been going thorugh my stuff. Yet, in my review this year, he said what he liked most about me is that he can "trust me."

Just sleep on the floor. I did it for 6 of the months my wife was pregnant.

I woke up 30 minutes before my alarm this morning, in a great mood, thanks to the dream I had. I was 100% convinced it was true until I was in the shower and realized it was just a dream. What was the dream? Terry Pegula had bought the company I work for from my jackass Frenchie boss, and was flying all of us (there's 10 in the office) up to Minnesota on his private jet to celebrate... by going gun shopping.

You work for a French guy too? Problem #1 here is that "upper management" consists of two people - Frenchie and his American wife, the EVP, who spends most of her time at their 2nd home in Hilton Head, and really has no clue what's going on. There's another VP who hates Frenchie with a passion. She's been here for ten years, but despite her disdain for the boss and his wife, she doesn't have the stones to go move on to something else. With the new promotion, I'm next in line after her.

I hear you on that. I just received a "promotion" and got a fancy new title with more responsibility, but didn't get a whiff of a pay increase. Apparently I'm great at what I do, but when it comes time for my boss to show his appreciation with a raise, it's not quite good enough. I'm currently doing the workload that two idiots used to do (and I'm outselling them by a lot), and now I have to oversee the sales efforts in two other departments (we have 3 sales departments) in addition to handling all of the sales in my department, the largest of the three. I straight up told him I didn't have time to do everything I need to do, and he said we could "look into getting a part-time, unpaid intern." Ugh.

Did Roy get hurt or was he benched at all tonight? Looking at the ice time stats, he finished with 15:17, less than Gaustad and Stuart, and almost on par with Gerbe. Something's not right when the team's leading scorer plays less than the grinders in a 1-0 game.

Condoms. Are they really that hard to use?

we live on a cul-de-sac, and my nextdoor neighbors are kind of trashy. they've been living there for 7 years, we just moved in 2 months ago. i have a huge backyard (.5 acre), and they are in the corner of the cul-de-sac. if you look at the property lines, they don't have anything. well apparently the folks who lived in our house before us used to let these turds do whatever they wanted in their yard. i came home last night to find 4 kids (none of them mine) playing in my backyard and on a swingset that the previous owners put in years ago. the neighbors never bothered to ask us if it was ok, they just sat there and watched, and then brought drinks and snacks to the kids. my parents would have shot me if i did something like that. these parents told their kids it was ok. what the ###### is it with these people?

Actually it's in Charlotte, but still, she was making almost $30K as a waitress while finishing school.

if only you knew the guy. mid 50's, french, chain smoker. he recently offered a job to one of our former interns (not the one who had to clean up "the great toilet explosion of 2009"), and she turned him down. he wanted her to commit to working at the company for at least a year and half, at a salary of $20K, with a $2K bonus at the completion of 18 months. for various reasons she wasn't interested, and he proceeded to berate her, telling her she had "no ambition in life" and she'd "never amount to anything more than a waitress." so he ended up "hiring" his recent college grad son who was released from a mental institution a little over a month ago.

since there's only 3 men in our company, we have one men's bathroom in our office. problem is, my boss clogs the toilet on a daily basis. so for the last year and a half, whenever i have to use the bathroom, rain or shine, i walk down the street to a gas station for fear of having the toilet back up and shoot turd water at me. this is not an unfounded fear, as it happened to one of our interns, and then he, the intern, was told to clean it up.

yeah, my wife got one of those in the mail on monday. she's 25.

oh i hear ya on #3. i'm the sales manager. i handle... sales. french boss's american wife is in charge of marketing and communications. while she's at their "vacation home" in hilton head (at least 3 weeks a month), her work gets dumped on me, and then i get bitched at when sales aren't as bossman would like them. tell your freakin wife to work on her vaycay and email it in, and let me do my damn job!

wish i had time for a side job, but i travel a lot. i'm down in charlotte, nc. things will be easier when the wife can work, but for now she can't due to some health problems left over from her pregnancy (baby was born last november). boss is still a dick though. and a frenchman.

my cheap ass french boss who doesn't pay me enough so i can't afford to play hockey anymore. all my gear has been in storage for exactly 1 year now. cheap bastard gives out bonuses like hand jobs at a sorority date party to everyone else in the damn company, but his sales manager? not happening. i only want enough coin to get in the local league, but it isn't happening anytime soon, so i guess i'll just have to sit in my office and imagine umburgering him when he's walking through the hall with his head down sipping his coffee.

could he be the second coming of Brad May? May went 14th overall in 1990 and then was considered one of the toughest guys in the draft as well.

that was me last summer. it didn't help that i had lost my job and we had to move. i didn't think i would make it through the summer either. luckily i did, and my son was born in november. things get "back to normal" a few months after the birth. i always used to say i wanted 4 kids, but after last summer i think i'm happy with 2.

I hate "reply to all" and rarely ever use it. What really gets me, is that I get b!tched out at work for NOT using it all the time. I guess I'm the only one here who is annoyed with all kinds of useless emails saying "ok, sounds good. i'll call you later," when it has nothing to do with me or what I do.

The dumbass lady I just got off the phone with who says "Jaban" as opposed to "Japan"

just wanted to throw this one out there..... call centers located in india.