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I got a job!!!!! An actual j-o-b that will earn me something close to what I was making when I lost my last full-time job over a year ago AND I'll be working for the benefit of the community.
My post count nearly tripled in the time that I was unemployed or under-employed, but I'll be glad to go back to catching up on threads at the end of the day -- especially with the team the way it is now.
Rock on!
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This isn't really a rant, just an observation, but I flipped to the Tom Davis show on MASN this afternoon and could only take about 2 minutes of it. Seriously, what in the hell is wrong with those people?
No kidding. Worst callers on the planet, but if they didn't have 200 crappy callers, we'd have five minutes of actual Dave Johnson insight followed by storytime with Tom and Phil.
Only thing worse is all of the other local weekend sports talk radio. 105.7 airs mortgage and health talk all morning and the rest of the stations are worse. I was listening to one of the dolts last week and he didn't know what player was coming up when Hughes was sent down despite the fact that Roch had posted it 4 or 5 hours earlier. If you do a sports talk show in Baltimore and are not checking Roch's blog, the Sun's sports page, and baltimoreravens.com on an hourly basis - you should be fired. Sign up for a text messaging service at least.
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It seems like I can't go anywhere these days without being asked whether I want to make a donation to some kind of charity. It's not that I am against donating; I just hate being put on the spot like that.
Yep. I love how the two things that you most often hear at the checkout counter nowadays is whether you want to open a private label credit card or donate to a charity of their choosing. It will never happen, but it would be freakin amazing if for one week whenever somebody asked if you will donate or open a card, people responded by saying "Absolutely, that's a great idea. Let me put all of these items back and be right back to take care of that."
I give money at church even at times like these when I cannot afford to and try to be as generous as I can when times are better. I don't need to be harassed when I'm buying a loaf of bread at Target.
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On my way out of Charm City after the Opening Day debacle, I got to watch one 20-yr-old college try to freak a homeless man who was bending over to pick up cans from the street and got my car spit on by another young temptress for no reason whatsoever. Stay classy, ladies of Baltimore.
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A dozen polls on the first page of Orioles Talk. It's like watching the evening news and getting a dozen traffic reports. I'm sure that some love it, but it seems like overkill to me.
When will the Chad Moeller thread get any respect?!?
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Ummm....there was MUSIC in that video?
:laughlol: I love how the video pantomimes the lyrics, just in case you didn't get it. :laughlol::laughlol::laughlol:World on a string:laughlol::laughlol::laughlol: priceless
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CAKE recommended this as the greatest music video of all time and they were not kidding:
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(BTW -- 1,000 posts after six years. Anybody ever see the South Park where Kyle and Stan finally reach 1,000,000 points on Guitar Hero? That was the first thing that sprang to mind when I realized I was approaching 4 digits.)
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So the V-day gift I ordered two weeks ago for my girlfriend was out -for-delivery on Tuesday when the storm hit so it could not be delivered. That's cool. I can understand being unable to proceed with deliveries on Tuesday, Wednesday, and maybe even Thursday. As it is now Saturday night, it looks like it still will not arrive in time for dinner tomorrow.
Of course I tried to get ahold of them via email, website, and telephone and of course, none of these got me anywhere. I used to work with UPS and FedEx a lot in my old job and I know that they are prioritizing business deliveries first and leaving me looking forward to quite a letdown tomorrow night when I hand my girlfriend a printout about the gift I bought her. :angryfire::cussing::angryfire:
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I was just turned down for another job this morning.
A friend of mine works for the company so I asked him if he could ask the manager why I wasn't considered. Turns out there were over 1800 applicants for 12 positions. And without being specific, let me say that this is not a particularly attractive or well-paying job...but it is a job.
*sigh* :angryfire:
Running into the same thing. Jobs I would have no-doubt been given two years ago are now going to one of the many overqualified applicants that have swamped the market because they can no longer find jobs commensurate with their qualifications. I keep holding off on taking a job that I could have done ten years ago, but if things don't turn around soon, I am going to have to bite the bullet and drop three or four rungs down the ladder and 20% down in my salary just so I have a job.
I've had the most luck lately when trying to find the hidden job openings that are not listed on the jobsearch ubersites.
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N.A. at it again. I happened to flip to his station during a commercial break on my drive home yesterday, and once again he was stating how he is the only journalists in town not bought by Angelos and how he is the ONLY one who will continue to tell the "truth" yadda yadda yadda.
Even if he WAS correct, which he's not, does he REALLY think this is what people want to listen to? I don't listen often, but I swear every time I do I hear him spouting the same exact thing. The sad thing is 5 -10 years ago I really like him. Now, I think...Just go away NA...just go away!
It truly amazes me how his song always remains the same. After Forrester posted on here a while back, I decided to give NST another chance and listen for just five minutes. In those random five minutes, he referenced both his being shutout of press credentials from the Os and the infamous N.A. water gun story. Pathetic. It's like JTrea owns a radio station. "I'm the only one who can see through the Orioles' lies!"
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Never told anyone this story before and may have to flee the Hangout after sharing, but here we go:
I used to manage a retail store and had this guy come in who I was going to train to eventually be my boss (gotta love retail). He was told to shadow me for three months and he did - same shifts, same lunch breaks, same opportunities to take a break to go to the bathroom. I soon learned that a few hours after lunch, we'd take a break and I would usually get a drink and use the urinal and he would already be in there punishing the toilet.
A couple more weeks go by and one day we are sitting eating lunch and he starts talking about how his BBQ sandwich is going to make the bathroom smell like Andy Nelson's (a local pork BBq house) on the way out. I knid of laugh it off until I walk into the bathroom a few hours later. He hears me walk in and starts laughing histerically saying "See, I told you, I f'ing told you!"
That would be bad enough, but it got worse from there, with more comments during lunch and more comments and howls when I walked in the bathroom. Eventually, he started telling me that since he only ever ate four different kinds of lunches, I should be able to tell what he had for lunch without eating with him. He began this discussion while we were both eating and I almost got sick, but I had to laugh at the same time because he was fifteen tears older than me and was laughing and bobbing up and down the whole time he was talking about it.
It went on like this for the rest of the training period, with him making comments during lunch and heckling me about the corresponding smell in the john. Finally, he moved onto his next training rotation with my boss and we usually worked opposite shifts.
Time goes by and I finally happen into the bathroom again with him just finishing up. The horrible horrible truth was that I walked in and thought immediately "pork lo mein" as he exited the stall. He saw the look on my face and knew exactly what I was thinking. We both started laughing so hard that we had tears coming down and left the bathroom within thirty seconds of each other breathing heavily with red clammy faces - not to mention the fact that you could easily have heard the commotion from thirty yards away.
I was mortified and tried to quickly come up with a story as to what the heck was going on if somebody asked, but he just strutted around the store, beaming with pride. To this day, whenever that memory comes to mind, I get red in the face and laugh uncontrollably.
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Just started a great new job on Thursday. On Friday, I bought my first house in an amazing neighboorhood in York. I wonder what I should put on the agenda for today.
Less than two months ago, I was crumbling under the weight of long-term unemployment and fears that my life had jumped too far off of the tracks to get back to where I wanted to be. Maybe there is hope for our beloved Birds after all!