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**~~spiritwolf_1978~~** · #**9901** 03-02-2010, 11:02 PM

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i hope youre not a tranny

Magnusrex · #**9902** 03-02-2010, 11:02 PM

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that is definitely a WTF if i ever heard one.

**~~spiritwolf_1978~~** · #**9903** 03-02-2010, 11:04 PM

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i thought the same thing

ThatHaole · #**9904** 03-02-2010, 11:09 PM

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Ha! Last year I had to make a decision between the guy I had just hired and given me a year commitment or the guy who had worked for me for years, but had told me he was looking for another job in a passive aggressive attempt to get a raise. That was an easy call.
If you aren't giving your two weeks, you don't tell your boss you are looking.

TR · #**9905** 03-02-2010, 11:13 PM

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If someone tells me that they are looking for another job, I simply tell them that I accept their resignation and walk them to the parking lot.......I can't fucking stand that extortion strategy to get a raise....show me the productivity and I'll open the wallet!

Tablefor5 · #**9906** 03-02-2010, 11:27 PM

I want to hear the rest of the damn story

strommsarnac · #**9907** 03-02-2010, 11:33 PM

Good, I'm not fucking stupid then.

Backstory. Son has had a new job for a few days over a month. He comes home Friday and tells the wife (his mom) "I got an interview Tuesdays for another job. They say they'll pay me $15/hr and I get benefits after 30 days."

I hear about this Sunday from the wife. I'm annoyed that he didn't bother to tell me and that I had to hear it from her. So a few hours later he comes and tells me (obviously she told him he should talk to me about it). I don't jump on him or berate him I look at his situation from both sides and also say "Bird in the hand is better than two in the bush". Then I have to explain that because he's pulling one of his "stupid" attitudes.

Anyways, today he's driving home from work (knowing full well that I think it's stupid when he talks on the phone and drives and I try to get him off asap. Christ, he sucks as a driver with both hands, let alone with a phone).

He tells me "Oh, I talked with my consulting company and client today and told them that I'm going to an interview after work and just wanted to let them know". ?!?!?! I said "why did you do that, you just shot yourself in the foot and they now know that you aren't planning to stay". He said "Oh no, that's not true. After lunch they came to me and said that they really like the work I'm doing and want me to stay and that they have plenty of contracts lined up so I don't have to worry about being laid off... Blah, Blah, Blah all the I'd tell an employee to make sure they don't walk out on me in the next few weeks until I find a replacement.

I couldn't get him to see the mistake he made. Worse, he tells me he's not going to that interview. So, he's now pissed off his employer, the client AND a possible future employer. And he doesn't think he did and that I'm wrong.

So, tonight the wife brings up how our son talked to his boss/client and how they "want him so much" that he didn't go to that interview. I simply said "I can't believe he shot himself in the foot three times". She get's all fucking momma bear defensive and tells me he didn't, why do I always have to be so negative about what he does (which I'm not expect when it's true and he's blatantly fucking up). OH GOD I know it's coming but I can't not answer because I hate when she doesn't.

So I tell her "You don't tell your boss/employer that you're looking for a new job until you HAVE that new job. It's like telling your girlfriend that you're going to start fucking other girls and expect her to think it's OK and stay with you. How could telling your boss and client that you're going to a job interview after work" not be shooting your job goodbye? Worse, he canceled the interview too?".

Instead of answering my question, she starts going on about how I'm wrong because they told him all those things. So I point out that "Sure they're going to say that. Hell, I did the same thing when I was a manager and found out one of my employees was looking for another job. Then I quickly found someone to replace him and then let him go for lack of performance (True BTW) on the job". Not my fault he didn't get that job he was blabbing about or that he was screwing off on my dime.

So she starts going off on me and I tell her "You know what, I just don't care about this anymore. Obviously you think I'm wrong and that he didn't jeopardize his current job, so we'll just have to wait and see" and then I went down to my office to cool off and tell my woes here.

I don't know if she's just going through pre-empty nest syndrome and deflecting her angst on me or if she's pulling the "my son can't be wrong cause then I fucked up raising him" crap and taking it out on me instead of him or if it's just red-headed PMS

Any way about it, I'm fucked.

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strommsarnac · #**9908** 03-02-2010, 11:34 PM

^^^^^^^

Sorry I was writing a novel

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Tablefor5 · #**9909** 03-02-2010, 11:41 PM

your wife hot?

Magnusrex · #**9910** 03-02-2010, 11:50 PM

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my grandpa once said, a man looks at the world the way it is, from our views and experiences. a woman looks at the world the way it should be, how they would do it to make it nice for everyone, except their husbands. he was a smart man, i still think he died before my grandma just so he could get some peace and quite.