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21774. OhioSTOPAS - 5/11/2007 12:41:53 PM A good news update from the Ohio household!
A year ago, in Message # 19007, I told you about finally landing a good job after two years of un- and under-employment. Well, that job ended in late February. I was a "contract attorney"/"contingent worker" (i.e., a temp, even though long-term), and when the division had a bad year the bean-counters eliminated me. To my great disappointment, frustration, and bafflement, I was never offered "permanent" employment.
BUT . . . within a month I was interviewing for another attorney job with the same financial institution in a different area (commercial lending instead of residential mortgage lending) and I was just offered the job! I start a week from Monday. The job is here in Columbus, and it's at a different facility that is CLOSER to my house. And the pay is the same as my temp job (which was good pay), except now I get vacation, holidays, sick days, 401(k) etc. So things are looking REALLY good now.
I even had multiple opportunities to choose from. My former boss, the attorney who hired me for the temp job (and was later pushed out amid legal department turmoil) became general counsel of another financial institution in Richmond, Virginia. I was scheduled to interview there when I got the Columbus offer. But I want to stay in Columbus for the foreseeable future - and "VirginiaSTOPAS" would be a dumb name! 21775. thoughtful - 5/11/2007 1:38:32 PM Congrats on the good news ohio...nothing like benes! 21776. macnas - 5/11/2007 2:25:28 PM Hello you crazy kids. 21777. Ms. No - 5/11/2007 3:36:13 PM Hiya Mac!
Ohio --- That's great news!! Congratulations! 21778. wonkers2 - 5/11/2007 5:38:13 PM Great news, Ohio! I eke out a bit of pocket money representing claimants in unemployment compensation hearings. Some of the temp agencies don't treat their people very well and they lie like rugs in UC hearings. 21779. arkymalarky - 5/12/2007 4:23:01 AM CONGRATS, OHIO!!! 21780. arkymalarky - 5/12/2007 4:25:03 AM Well, Mose and I are both graduated, though we both have to take one class in June. Everything went well, and Mose had a small family/friend gathering at her house afterward.
Took almost 50 kids to AR's one theme park today and they all had a blast, but with that and Mose's graduation (I didn't go to mine), I'm too pooped to peep right now. 21781. arkymalarky - 5/12/2007 4:25:41 AM MAC!!
Don't be such a stranger! We never see you any more. 21782. robertjayb - 5/12/2007 5:02:00 AM Nice going, malarky women. 21783. iiibbb - 5/12/2007 5:19:03 AM I'm looking for a word...
similar to revisionist, but not from the context of trying to intentionally obfuscate the truth, but just from the context of trying to sanitize the truth to make something more palatable to an audience. 21784. arkymalarky - 5/12/2007 6:17:16 AM truthiness? 21785. arkymalarky - 5/12/2007 6:17:47 AM Thanks Robert! 21786. iiibbb - 5/12/2007 2:54:57 PM No.. there is a word, but I can't place it.
What I'm thinking about, for instance, is the movie Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, which makes them far more protagonistic than they were in real life, but the point of the movie wasn't to revise the story behind them, it was just to make a movie that more people would want to watch. 21787. arkymalarky - 5/12/2007 4:06:10 PM sugarcoating? 21788. alistairconnor - 5/12/2007 6:43:45 PM euphemism? 21789. alistairconnor - 5/12/2007 7:04:26 PM Congratulations to Ohio, and to the Arkettes!
Ohio, getting out of residential mortgage lending sounds like a good career move to me. 21790. arkymalarky - 5/13/2007 12:51:44 AM Thanks Alistair!
Bought myself a graduation present of a Blackberry 8800 today. 21791. arkymalarky - 5/13/2007 1:18:11 AM Crapitall,
Al, I accidentally deleted your email while trying to reply to it (I'm really showing that I'm the type of person who should own a Blackberry, here).
I gave you my cell phone #, so if you can holler at me on it Monday morning and leave a return # on a voice mail if I don't answer, I'll holler back asap.
Monday's good, except that place doesn't open until 3, so if your favorite is open for lunch I'm fine with it or any place else downtown.
I hope you're where you can read all this. If not, I hope you have my # with you. 21792. Ms. No - 5/13/2007 2:22:39 AM iiibbb,
You're right, there is a word and now I can't think of it either and it will keep me up all night. Two weeks from now I'll suddenly shout out "WORD!" in the middle of something else and everyone will look at me like I'm out of my mind.
But I'll be sure to come back here and tell you what it is. ;-> 21793. Ms. No - 5/13/2007 2:23:28 AM Arky,
Congrats to you and Mose!
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