Jay Leno has been sharing those stories with us pretty much since he said “adios” to late-night television, and in this clip his feature car is a 1966 Volkswagen 21-window Samba owned by fellow comedian Gabriel Iglesias. You may not be into the same kinds of vehicles as someone else, but there is still a shared connection: the work involved, the story behind both the vehicle and the reason why they chose that set of wheels…all of that is shared. After all, you were looking for a job when you found this one.It takes all types to keep this hobby going, and that goes for both the vehicles and the owners. I know talk is cheap and armchair quarterbacks never throw interceptions, but regardless of my easy moralizing, you know what the right decision is, so go ahead and make it. Let me be clear: I am not blaming those people for wanting to keep their jobs, but I do want to point out that when assholes are the only ones willing to take bold action, assholes usually win. That doesn't mean they slept well at night. Those DPS folks and the Texas Guard who shut down the border were just doing their jobs, too. Instead he thought, "Wow! This hayseed Bond villain thing is really working out for me! I think I'll shut down the border so the liberals can't have their avocado toast and then maybe I'll bus some immigrants up to New York City." See, Governor Roomba is just diabolical enough to know he can find a bus driver who needs the job badly enough to become an agent of injustice, even if an unhappy one. It's not like Greg Abbott won the governorship and suddenly turned into a mensch. I've met a few and they're good people doing good work, but knowing that the head honcho is just a goon for nitwit Christian fundamentalists can't be healthy for anyone's self-esteem, even someone with a fancy law degree.Īnd there's the rub: You probably aren't going to change your ex's behavior. I'm betting that most of them could use a sympathetic ear every now and again … if not a full-on pep talk when they look in the mirror every morning. If you feel like you're the only one who knows how this feels, let me remind you that there are well over 4,000 people who work in the Texas Attorney General's Office. What a crippling moral dilemma! Speak up against an unrepentant asshole and risk losing your job or stay silent and be complicit in visiting injustice on the innocent. My very sincere apologies to you and anyone else who had to endure that, but I have found over the years that I focus a lot better once I shake the bee out of the hive, so to speak. Also – and I know this is an unforgivable non sequitur – Flip Dictum would make a really great porn star name. Normally I would pop off with some flip dictum like "snitches get stitches," or "the tallest blade of grass gets cut first," but your ex sounds like someone who really needs to get got. It could be that no one will get in trouble for this error, but I don't know for sure. I truly regret getting mixed up with this guy but I don't think it should cost me my job. I am afraid that if I don't speak up these people will lose their bonuses, but if I do speak up I will get dragged into a huge fight with him that will at the very least land me in HR or possibly even get me fired. Then last week I discovered that his department was responsible for a huge error that … again … he refused to acknowledge only this time it might possibly affect some of our co-workers' bonuses. Since then I have been hearing about his behavior from his employees and other managers and inevitably, they come to me to complain, as if I have some secret that helps me deal with his arrogance. I won't say that was the cause of our breakup, but it was just one thing in a much larger list. One of his most annoying/infuriating traits is that he refuses to apologize or ever admit he is wrong – even when it's obvious. I quickly realized that although he was charming publicly, privately he was a self-absorbed narcissist who literally could not care about anything or anyone except himself. After dating for a few months that all changed. I know, I know … never date a co-worker … but I admit I was smitten. He was very nice, polite, and charming at first, and even though his personal life (being divorced with children) was a bit of a red flag, he eventually talked me into going out. One of those hires was a fellow manager who had recently quit his job at a West Coast marketing firm so that he could be closer to his ex and their children. During COVID we had significant turnover in our division and, as a result, in early 2021 began hiring a lot of new people as business ramped up again. I have been in a midlevel management position at a financial services company for several years.
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