Grrr… So, I present a client with an excellent candidate. The client rejects the candidate, then hires them a few days later, behind our backs. Then they tell me openly that their lawyer claims they owe us one-or-two thousand dollars at most. Then he claims he won’t pay us anything, but will “let us work on the next job.”
What?
What a FUCKER. Anyway, I’m trying to decide if I should sue them or not.
…that it’s impossible to blog. Maybe I’ll try and recap later. I might just start from this point forward. I don’t know.
So, up until 3:30pm today, i had excellent reason to believe that my wife was in imminent danger of losing her sight over an uncertain number of years. Now, that diagnosis has been utterly revamped to: “We’ll check you ever 6 months for the next few years, but it’s unlikely anything will EVER happen.”
Wow.
Sad, sad, sad.
So: What the fuck is the federal government doing passing person-specific laws, and interfering with multiple judicial decisions made by the state courts? I thought this was the bullshit, big-government type of crap the Republicans used as weaponry AGAINST the Democrats? Holy jeez. It’s incredibly hypocritical, yet par for the course. Such bullshit. I long for the days of Bob Dole. At least I could respect the man.
This jackass from the Mayo clinic made judgements based on videotape and records… without actually meeting the woman in person… this pretty much says everything you need to know about HIS credibility.
Honestly, I have no opinion on this case, because I don’t understand it enough. Decades ago, I did introduce a bill to legalize active, personal-choice-driven euthanasia for terminally ill patients to my Student Congress. The debate was going along well enough until some kid made a speech in support of the bill saying “Kill the old people, we need the hospital beds.” End of bill.
And this isn’t even active euthanasia. It’s entirely passive. If she made it clear she didn’t want to be kept alive like this, it’s her choice. But this unbelievably inappropriate involvement by the feds is pathetic and dangerous.
So, we’re sitting at our enormous, rented table… (we’re having 17 people for Easter dinner), and out of nowhere my oldest son says “You know, Dad, you’ve really changed since we moved to Chappaqua. Your temper is better, and you’re even more fun.”
I tear up immediately. He doesn’t know what he’s actually saying, but I do. He’s saying “Since you got sober…”
I left the table for a moment, to collect myself. I consider myself incredibly lucky, and sometimes it takes a little reminder from an eight-year-old to keep that feeling fresh.
I think I just closed a deal which put my company into the black for the quarter.
Sheesh.
And I NEVER do that. This lady had written me about a job, and I had invited her in for an interview. She asked if she could talk to me on the phone. Her email style totally irked me. She kept writing me short little email notes with literally no reference to the prior email, so I had to figure our what she was referring to. All lower case, too. And she was trying to get a writing gig.
When I got her on the phone, I was having a difficult time understanding her. We just didn’t connect. It wasn’t’ a linguistics thing, it was a vibe thing.
Finally, I said: “Normally, I have people’s work in front of me, so I can relate it to what we do.”
She responded: “I’m a generalist—“
I interrupted: “I don’t really know what that means.”
She got furious: “IF YOU DIDN’T INTERRUPT ME, I COULD EXPLAIN IT TO YOU.”
And then she paused. More pause.
I said: “I’m sorry, I think I better go.” And hung up.
Sometimes, the vibe of a person will weird me out so much that I’m not sure I can work with them.
According to a new study, the obesity problem in the U.S. is going to kill so many people early, that social security will be saved by that alone. End of problem.
Privatization? I don’t think so. They tried it in Britain, and have regretted it ever since. But that aside: if their going to let folks invest their Social Security money privately, why not eliminate it altogether, and create an expanded retirement fund tax break program?
We’re idiots with money. That’s why Social Security exists. Leave it be.
At three AM this morning, some people on a conference call prank called my house. Because our answering machine says our names, and because my wife picked up after this, the caller called my wife by name, and started acting like she knew her. My wife was so half-asleep and confused that she kept trying to figure out who it was. I took the phone and asked the caller her name.
“It’s Jodi. I went to school with M.”
“What school?” I asked.
Giggle from her friend. And: click.
I couldn’t go back to sleepl, so I got up, wrote collections notices and client emails, until it was time for the 5:40 train.
As I was waiting for the subway today, I saw a mouse get attacked by a rat. It was really, really disturbing
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