OT: Bullshitting at the Barbershop

[thedddd]

Cheerfully withdrawn

I thought it was conscious uncoupling?

 

[sabresfaninthesouth]

I once had a boss ask me when I gave my two weeks notice if I had left any code behind in the system that could potentially cause damage after I left. I looked at him and said "Thanks for confirming that I made the right decision".

I kinda understand the idea, but do they expect you to say yes, even if you did?

"Oh you got me...yeah, I left a nasty virus that's going to erase everything. Enjoy your weekend."

 

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I kinda understand the idea, but do they expect you to say yes, even if you did?

"Oh you got me...yeah, I left a nasty virus that's going to erase everything. Enjoy your weekend."

The thing is, I had gone into his office 6 months prior and told him I was looking for a promotion otherwise I would be looking to leave. He was also seething because two of my colleagues had already left the company for more lucrative opportunities in the previous month. Maybe the timing of my departure wasn't the best, but after 7 years at that company, I thought that was a cheap shot.

 

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[puckhead]

When you give you current employer notice you are leaving and your boss doesn't even ask why or where you are going, is that a sure sign you made the right choice?

Asking for a friend

last job i left, I gave my resignation letter and expected to be escorted out the door as i had access to client files etc.
my stupid boss wanted me to stay for the two weeks anyway to be spiteful.

so i did. and basically napped at my desk for two weeks while everyone came by and congratulated me for escaping.
must have driven her nuts.

 

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so i did. and basically napped at my desk for two weeks while everyone came by and congratulated me for escaping.
must have driven her nuts.

You're not Penske material

 

[forty_three]

last job i left, I gave my resignation letter and expected to be escorted out the door as i had access to client files etc.
my stupid boss wanted me to stay for the two weeks anyway to be spiteful.

so i did. and basically napped at my desk for two weeks while everyone came by and congratulated me for escaping.
must have driven her nuts.

When I left my last job it was the same thing. They said they wanted me to stick out the two weeks until the third day when my then boss stopped by my desk and saw the folder of resumes people had dropped off to me. They came to me that afternoon, tried to get me to sign a non-compete and I laughed. Told them I wasn't signing anything and would sit at my desk for two weeks and collect resumes. They let me leave an hour later.

For this job, I will stay as long as they want inside the notice period. I don't hold any ill will toward the company and most of the people in it. They just want me to manage and I don't want to do that. However, there is one guy who got himself promoted on the back of me and my team's work a few years back. We recently got an org announcement that went and got himself promoted again and will be in the way of my team and my boss on the chart to the top. So I am going to build out this project proposal that several other department heads want and lay the groundwork / make the business case on my way out the door. The higher ups will demand it be done, and he will have no fucking clue how, nor will my boss. And the other guy on my team who understands it is turning in his notice Friday.

 

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[forty_three]

The Yellowstone woman was from a town about 15 miles from me called Grove City. We locals call it Grovetucky.

 

[buffhockey]

The Yellowstone woman was from a town about 15 miles from me called Grove City. We locals call it Grovetucky.

Sounds like the old shitty part of Henderson better known as Hendertucky.

Seems like Kentucky has a bad rap or something…

 

[dare2be]

The Yellowstone woman was from a town about 15 miles from me called Grove City. We locals call it Grovetucky.

There's a Grove City PA as well. Which seems to share more than the name.

 

[dare2be]

Are you sure they aren't playing checkers? He may be planning to jump the queen.

 

[sbb122]

There's a Grove City PA as well. Which seems to share more than the name.

I know people from both Grove City OH and PA. no lies told

 

[thedddd]

I know people from both Grove City OH and PA. no lies told

I had a co-worker buy a house in Grove City and his first day there a neighbor knocked on his door not to welcome him but to tell him he is not from around here, and he wasn't welcome. Even though he was white, he was "city folk".


For those that don't know Grove City is NORTH of Pittsburgh.

 

[forty_three]

I had a co-worker buy a house in Grove City and his first day there a neighbor knocked on his door not to welcome him but to tell him he is not from around here, and he wasn't welcome. Even though he was white, he was "city folk".


For those that don't know Grove City is NORTH of Pittsburgh.

Our Grove City is interesting because it used to be rural, and was the place that Columbus designated as the trash dump and sewer processing should be. As recently as 1980 it was farms, fart smells and seagulls eating garbage intermixed with rural homes. Then the farmers sold off and now it's pretty much the same but with a bunch of strip malls, condos and way too close suburban hell housing mixed in. It's a wild place.

 

[sbb122]

I had a co-worker buy a house in Grove City and his first day there a neighbor knocked on his door not to welcome him but to tell him he is not from around here, and he wasn't welcome. Even though he was white, he was "city folk".


For those that don't know Grove City is NORTH of Pittsburgh.

Grove City PA is racist as hell. The guy I know from Grove City OH was a thoroughbred horse trainer at Mountaineer Park.

He asked a few of us to stop at a bar one night after the races to drink.

He said “it’s a nice little place, there’s a sign on the door that say n******* and sp*** not welcome, you can’t miss it”

 

[dare2be]

I had a co-worker buy a house in Grove City and his first day there a neighbor knocked on his door not to welcome him but to tell him he is not from around here, and he wasn't welcome. Even though he was white, he was "city folk".

I would've responded with "you're right, I am city folk. I'm a resident of Grove City."

 

[thedddd]

I would've responded with "you're right, I am city folk. I'm a resident of Grove City."

They would have missed it totally.

 

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I would've responded with "you're right, I am city folk. I'm a resident of Grove City."

I found the official song for Grove City...oh my bad this is Groove City.