Monday, February 07, 2005
How's this for irony. I went to get my taxes done today, and did pretty well. (No that's not the ironic bit.) Unfortunately, the wait time at my not-so-local tax preparer was about three hours. They were pretty swamped. (That's not the ironic bit either.) Of course, I did really well on the stock market last year. Okay, well not really. Of course, I'll get into that later. Just try to read through to the end of the post before quitting. (Well, that's a little ironic.)
Anyway, when I was at Dell there was a girl who missed her allotted eight days in a month and a half. Then she claims that she had health problems. Of course, she didn't mention it until her last day. I saw her come in, pick up her stuff, and leave. I was on a call and didn't get to hear her last words.
Guess who was working the desk at H & R Block today? She asked how Dell was going. I informed her that we were all laid off. I guess I should have seen it coming, but business had been picking up. It seemed that the slowdown had ceased. It didn't make sense to be laid off now.
She asked about a few particular employees. Basically, the ones that she didn't repulse. She asked if anyone stayed. I told her that I didn't think so. The strongest people on our team were gone before I. The ones left while I was there were actually in the middle of a call.
Then she said it. (This is the ironic bit.) She left because she wanted to be able to go back to Dell. If she had been fired she could not. She said that she wasn't sure that she wanted to go back because she didn't want to work a seasonal job. I guess that she forgot where she was working at today.
In other news, I now know how I did in the stock market last year. I lost 14 percent of my total investment money last year. Okay, so that's bad. They way I see it could have been a lot worse. I didn't know what the heck I was doing for half of last year. One day, I hope to sit down and figure some pre-technical analysis numbers and post technical analysis numbers. Then I can give you better figures to consider for technical analysis.
And by then my slogan will probably be "I didn't know what the heck I was doing for half of last year."
Anyway, when I was at Dell there was a girl who missed her allotted eight days in a month and a half. Then she claims that she had health problems. Of course, she didn't mention it until her last day. I saw her come in, pick up her stuff, and leave. I was on a call and didn't get to hear her last words.
Guess who was working the desk at H & R Block today? She asked how Dell was going. I informed her that we were all laid off. I guess I should have seen it coming, but business had been picking up. It seemed that the slowdown had ceased. It didn't make sense to be laid off now.
She asked about a few particular employees. Basically, the ones that she didn't repulse. She asked if anyone stayed. I told her that I didn't think so. The strongest people on our team were gone before I. The ones left while I was there were actually in the middle of a call.
Then she said it. (This is the ironic bit.) She left because she wanted to be able to go back to Dell. If she had been fired she could not. She said that she wasn't sure that she wanted to go back because she didn't want to work a seasonal job. I guess that she forgot where she was working at today.
In other news, I now know how I did in the stock market last year. I lost 14 percent of my total investment money last year. Okay, so that's bad. They way I see it could have been a lot worse. I didn't know what the heck I was doing for half of last year. One day, I hope to sit down and figure some pre-technical analysis numbers and post technical analysis numbers. Then I can give you better figures to consider for technical analysis.
And by then my slogan will probably be "I didn't know what the heck I was doing for half of last year."
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