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« Reply #1950 on: March 27, 2017, 09:55:56 PM »
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be sure to be in a good place sobriety/support wise, as you seem to clearly know, before thinking this will resolve it
In all honesty, I'd rather be a miserable warehouse worker in Topeka than move to Denver and blow up a relationship and sever some family ties. I'd rather let booze kill me than take advantage of family.

I'll devote my remaining time in Topeka to sobriety and savings. My lease is up the end of May. I'll move into one of Canary's spate bedrooms and pay rent and save. I'll be safe and sober there while networking for business and sobriety. As it is now, I spend most days and nights at Canary's anyway. (He doesn't let me know loose women there though smh).

I'm just glad to know that I have a solid offer for a better life. It rough ridin' sucks to try to subdue yourself into accepting manual labor.

Cheerio my friends. I love you all. Can't wait to be able to post in the hiking thread.

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« Reply #1951 on: March 27, 2017, 09:57:12 PM »
Btw Canary has saved my life at least 4 times over. He is the father I never had.

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« Reply #1952 on: March 27, 2017, 10:08:07 PM »
You fucko. I don't want to cry tonight. Take a compliment and move along.

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« Reply #1953 on: March 28, 2017, 08:17:15 AM »
Glad to hear all of this, Sdk.  I look forward to future updates on your successes.

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« Reply #1954 on: March 29, 2017, 01:10:23 AM »
Thank you.

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« Reply #1955 on: April 10, 2017, 07:40:09 PM »
First day at new job! There was no discussion about what time I should come in. I showed up about 8:30. I learned that my boss was out on vacation and his boss, a VP, was running late. So, the receptionist called the lone colleague in my department for me.

This is a German girl who seems maybe a tad shy of being fully proficient at speaking English. We introduced ourselves and then she just marched me straight to the VP's office and told me I could sit in there and wait if I wanted. I was like "Maybe I'll go find the bathroom and check out the gym. Or even leave and come back in an hour." She said okay and then turned around and walked off.

So, I went to the store and picked up some $6 reading glasses to leave at work and $10 worth of lottery tickets.

The VP was there when I got back. He said and did a bunch of totally normal stuff for the next several hours. BUT THEN, as I was getting ready to leave, he told me that he wanted to share something with me. I'd learned earlier that he was a wrestling coach and has a son who is a star wrestler. He then told me that he'd taken his son to Nationals as a 14 year old and felt terrible because his son lost immediately. His reaction was to write a letter to his son. The letter is what he wanted to share with me. So, I sat there as he read verbatim this 3/4 page, single spaced, deeply personal letter about winning and losing and trying and getting back up and learning life lessons. As he's reading it, I'm like, "Oh crap. How am I supposed to respond to this? Is my response going to sound phony? What's going on here!?" Luckily, he kept right on talking after reading and the conversation flowed naturally.

Tomorrow, my boss will be in! One of the things I remember about him from my interview is that he started out by saying, "Basically, our crap is all mumped up."

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« Reply #1956 on: April 10, 2017, 07:46:12 PM »
Needs own thread

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« Reply #1957 on: April 10, 2017, 07:57:18 PM »
That is incredible


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« Reply #1958 on: April 10, 2017, 07:58:40 PM »
Agreed. Like, why a letter? Does he not live with his son?

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« Reply #1959 on: April 10, 2017, 07:59:43 PM »
Also could have been a test where you were supposed to say you don't tolerate losing.

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« Reply #1960 on: April 10, 2017, 08:07:09 PM »
and people thought chum1 shouldn't have left his old job.
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« Reply #1961 on: April 10, 2017, 08:32:22 PM »
I'm pretty happy about all this. write him a letter thanking him for reading you the letter

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« Reply #1962 on: April 10, 2017, 09:08:09 PM »
Today was my first day at a new job as well.  Just paperwork, orientation, and tours.  Nothing in the same realm as the above strangeness/awesomeness.

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« Reply #1963 on: April 10, 2017, 09:37:50 PM »
The gift that keeps giving  :love:
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« Reply #1964 on: April 10, 2017, 09:47:17 PM »
No negative consequences

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« Reply #1965 on: April 10, 2017, 10:08:49 PM »
I would quit that job immediately.

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« Reply #1966 on: April 11, 2017, 07:06:47 AM »
I also don't yet have a place to sit, which I don't think is a big deal in itself. What's kind of weird about it, though, is that the VP mentioned a couple of seating options and both involved cubicles that do not currently exist. So, there is no plan in place right now and it seems like it will be AT LEAST several days before I have a place to sit.

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« Reply #1967 on: April 11, 2017, 08:26:39 AM »
Glad to hear things are already getting weird.  Looking forward to the next boss update.

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« Reply #1968 on: April 11, 2017, 08:31:58 AM »
I also don't yet have a place to sit, which I don't think is a big deal in itself. What's kind of weird about it, though, is that the VP mentioned a couple of seating options and both involved cubicles that do not currently exist. So, there is no plan in place right now and it seems like it will be AT LEAST several days before I have a place to sit.

do you just stand around in the breakroom or work from home or what's the deal here

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« Reply #1969 on: April 11, 2017, 08:39:44 AM »
He's going to have to sit in the VP's office all day and it is going to get super weird.

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« Reply #1970 on: April 11, 2017, 08:41:29 AM »
If you have to sit in the VP's office all week, I could see it being a 21st century version of the buddy cop movie-- Office Buds.

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« Reply #1971 on: April 11, 2017, 08:45:13 AM »
I told the VP that I'd wait in a sort of hang out area until my boss gets in. That's where I am now.

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« Reply #1972 on: April 11, 2017, 08:46:01 AM »
amazing

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« Reply #1973 on: April 11, 2017, 08:50:28 AM »

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« Reply #1974 on: April 11, 2017, 08:53:33 AM »
slap a nametag on one of those and start leaving papers and stuff on the desk part