I'm Going To De-Clutter One Of My Word Documents
It's a log of sorts, where I copy and paste info from social media that I want to come back to, which can be problematic, as some of these 'saves' won't make more than a brief item of a couple of hundred words at best.
So, Item One concerns a Quoran item about 'How long did it take for your boss to realise they'd made a mistake by firing you?'
The answer was all of three days and the business fired the CEO who fired the Original Poster. Which must have felt satisfying. Art!
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| Firing the firer, AI Art Generator style |
The business then tried to get OP back, offering $200 per hour, which is an eye-wateringly large sum and proof that they didn't merely want OP back, they needed them back. Still they said no, which leads Conrad to deduce it was a bad business environment, not merely a bad boss. Their replacement, hired at twice OP's old salary, lasted three months and then quit, which confirms my suspicions. OP then lucked into a better-paying job with much better management and continued to be bothered by their old employer, asking questions to which only they knew the answer. Art!
OP followed the old CEO on LinkedIn and they are still unemployed. Their business strategy had been to fire experienced staff and replace them with her inexperienced, unqualified friends, who were all fired once she was.
According to OP their old employer is now nearing bankruptcy with the talented and able staff all leaving before it goes bust. One wonders whom was responsible for hiring that CEO? Art!
Next Item Two is from 'Blu-ay' on Quora, who related a tale told of her mother, who worked as the unpaid General Factotum in a business, doing the work of 5 people for the salary of one, always a good thing in the eyes of manglement. Not only that, she was refused a promotion, possibly because that would have meant other people having to do the jobs she used to, and promotions come with a pay increase.
She exercised her Option Via Feet, namely quitting. Blue-Jay didn't elaborate on whether she gave two weeks notice or not, but 2 days after she started a much better-paying job with a different employer, her old employer called her. They needed her back - once again 'need' not 'want' - because the people whose jobs she had been doing were completely useless and unable to perform their jobs. She did not accede to their request. Good! because that underlines how stupid this business's management were.
4 months later they went out of business. Art!
I couldn't use the first image the AIAG created, it had a street sign composed of a vulgarism, presumably confused by "Shutter". Really, were we ever under threat from these entities? "Terminator" lied to us!
For Item Three we come back to that perpetual Quora fave, "I got fired. My ex-boss is now asking for the whereabouts of important files. How should I respond?"
For Conrad, in the UK with proper employment laws, this is a no-brainer: they can go stuff themselves. South Canadians, whom management frequently treat as indentured slaves, have less legal recourse. In this tale, Long Since Moved On ex-employee, hereafter LSMO, was six months into a new job when his old company's lawyer called to threaten him. Art!
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| "Threatening lawyer" |
They needed the password to access a critical piece of hardware, and would sue if he didn't provide it. Good luck with that, thinks Your Humble Scribe, because who remembers a password six months after leaving?
LSMO refused to respond at all unless his old boss got in on the conference call, which she immediately did, meaning she had been waiting in the wings in case he got stubborn. LSMO then reminded her that he had, SIX MONTHS PREVIOUSLY, given all the passwords to his replacement. LSMO had not quit on the spot in a fit of pique, they had given notice and worked out that period appropriately. His ex-bosses response? "She said he abruptly left and they are locked out".
LSMO said it was nothing to do with him - that SIX MONTHS PREVIOUSLY coming home to roost - and hung up. Surprise, they didn't bother to sue him.
Actually, ex-boss's response raises more questions than it answers. 'Left abruptly'? How abruptly? So rapidly he didn't pass on his information? Why didn't they chase him, not LSMO, for the passwords? Did he suddenly die? What was their Bus Factor for this position?
It begins to sound as if the business had undergone shady dealings with this replacement, who was deliberately avoiding contact and comms, possibly trying a bit of blackmail to extort money. Then they thought LSMO could provide them with the info. WRONG!
And with that I have removed 3 items from the Word document.
Conrad: A Long Memory And No Mercy
I also found another item on my Word log, which consisted of a post on Twitter (Ha! suck it up, Elong!).
As you know, Conrad is unlikely if unable to give up digging further. There was a follow-up to this Tweet.
Not only was there no reply, '@scottyjordan9023' no longer exists on Twitter. Make of that what you will.
Here's One I Made Earlier
As they used to say on 'Blue Peter' way back in the day, when the day was several decades ago. Art!
This particular cake is Gingerbread, as made from the recipe in my '1,000 Recipe Cookbook', not anything chocolatey as suspected by Wonder Wifey, thanks to the dark brown colouring. This is due to the treacle used in the recipe, all 6 ounces of it. Treacle is probably the least harmful sugar invocation for diabetics, being the most crude and unrefined form of sugar there is. I did substitute sweetener for sugar, honest. Having tried a slice, I should have used more ground ginger, but it's not bad at all and definitely not too sweet. There is another recipe on the opposite page I may try later on - "Fruit Gingerbread".
Another Thing Discovered On The Log
If you've been paying attention, then you'll know that Conrad follows "AfricanStalingrad" on Twitter, whom is an ex-British Army officer whose sphere of concentration, perhaps also known as his obsession, is the Tunisian theatre of war in 1942 and 1943. He goes out there regularly, and posts photos of 'then and now', which are often much the same; the bits of inhospitable Tunisian terrain that the Allies and Axis were fighting over tend not to be very developed in the 80 years since. Art!
And Now For -
I ventured into Lesser Sodom this afternoon, and got the makings for that 'Pashka' recipe, so I'd better go make it, hadn't I? Must remember camera.
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