Whine like a baby, now with 500% more drama!
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Have you considered a position guarding the henhouse?
--Patrick
*Yes I know it's probably not a position you could do from where you currently live, I'm not being serious.
As a final update to the attempt to blag my way to a new job, after several rounds of interviews over the last few weeks, I finally got the rejection email today.
Oh well. It stings slightly, but it was a fool's hope in the first place anyway, given that I didn't really meet their posted requirements.
Oh well. It stings slightly, but it was a fool's hope in the first place anyway, given that I didn't really meet their posted requirements.
I woke up 2 hours early today, and was confused for that whole time. I had thought that I had no called/no showed at work. Then I remembered I no longer have a work cell phone, and we are having a snow day.
I guess I was off, because I spent all day yesterday throwing up my toes.
I guess I was off, because I spent all day yesterday throwing up my toes.
I had a total evacuation basically. I did not eat Sunday. So I was tossing up water basically. Being dehydrated must have caused my confusion.
Dave
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Hey dry heaving sucks but you don't get chunks in your nose so you win!
This is one of those things that can happen if your upchuckery is especially vigorous. A bit like drinking a carbonated beverage too fast, only far less pleasant.
--Patrick
When I had really bad acid reflux, I would sometimes get woken up in the middle of the night because bile was forcing its way into my sinus cavity.
Nothing is better than panic-waking because you feel like you're drowning in your own vomit. Trying to die like a rock star without any of the benefits of being one.
Minor, slightly-amusing coda to this whole situation.
My current company, not sure how, heard about how I was in contact with another company to become an interpreter there. Maybe the other company called this one for a reference, maybe someone else here was in contact with the headhunter or something like that, no idea. But the result was that my grand-supervisor called me into a meeting today, and she was all like, "Are you interested in becoming an interpreter? Is it because you want to do interpreting? We sometimes take interpretation cases, do you want us to send you on those?"
And I was all like, "Don't worry, they rejected me already."
And she was all like, "Oh whew. You're an essential part of this company and we can't afford to lose you."
Yeah, AI is coming for us, and who knows if this company will even be around in 12 months time. But y'know what? These guys have repeatedly shown me that they really do value me. So yeah, I'm gonna stick around and do my best to stave off the threat of AI. And if the day really does come, I think I'm ok going down with the ship.
Honestly, I would've used the opportunity to aim for a pay raise. Not even be rude about it. Just something like, "Well, the pay was a little better, too, and I was hoping to get it just in case the economy worsens."
It might've been just passive aggressive enough that they offer you a pay raise, since they can't afford to lose you.
Under normal circumstances that'd be a good idea, but given that they're floating the idea of layoffs possibly being necessary somewhere down the line, I don't want to become the big expense that they end up cutting first. Plus I'm already very highly paid by the standards of this company, I'm 90% sure the only person who's currently paid more than me is our general manager.