sjm said:
SJM,
I hate to disagree with Heraclitus, but, "the only constant is baseball."
signed,
Ray Kinsella, Iowa
P.S. - Good luck DCP.
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SJM,
I hate to disagree with Heraclitus, but, "the only constant is baseball."
signed,
Ray Kinsella, Iowa
P.S. - Good luck DCP.
CaptainJR said:
I don't know about you, but whenever I've been "plugging away" waiting for layoff announcements (a common thing for a software developer), I might as well been at home watching TV for all the work I'd get done.
Good luck, keep us posted.
catscradle said:
I know what you mean, Steve. Ever since my company recently announced they were laying off 30,000 employees worldwide, everyone here has been treading water waiting for the penny to drop. I already got one note today from someone who has worked here for 25 years announcing his 'retirement'...
Oh well, I've survived every 'downsizing' for the last 31 years, so I'm hoping to do the same this time.
The Hamster said:
Good luck to you Hamster, and you DCP (although I see another thread with a title indicating good news, I hope). Hamster, were you there when they sold off the golf course ? That must have been a real bad day for some itty bitty machine boys !
Dave
DaveK said:
The one in Markham? I don't know how old you are but they also owned a golf course at Eglinton & Leslie. Yes, I was there and played there many times. They took a championship caliber golf course and sold the upper half for a real estate development. The river valley holes, were turned into a travesty of a 9-hole course... sigh.
DCP...I hope this all works out for you and I feel your pain. My job is paid for by a grant..so about this time every year there is talk about the grant going under, or going to a diffrent agency. I am lucky in one aspect. The grant that I work under is a Federal Court order, thus the State must provide for my position until the State can get the order over turned. (They haven't been sucessful in like 20 years, LMAO!) But the court order only says how much the grant is for and the jobs that it is to pay for..not who the employer is or salary/ benifits stipulatons...I have been lucky so far...in about 4 years we only had to switch agencies once, which lead to a pay raise and better benifits...but the fiscal year is close and the talk is starting again....
Hang in there..if worse comes to worse there is always unemployment...it may suck but it is better than nothing.
Hang in there..if worse comes to worse there is always unemployment...it may suck but it is better than nothing.
landshark77 said:
Not a lot better than nothing. Unless you have a severence package concurrently it really isn't adequate.
The Hamster said:
I'm pushing towards 50, and lived in TO from 83 - 89, so it was the Markham course. Too bad the track was ruined, but really I thought it a bit excessive. My company had a office on Consumers Road. We did not have a golf course. Hell, we had to share the bathrooms !
Dave
DaveK said:
In that case you probably only know the old one as Wilket Creek park (next to Edwards Gardens). It was originally purchased by IBM from EP Taylor and eventually sold back to the city.
DaveK said:
I would never have learned to play if it weren't for the cheap green fees for employees. I'm not complaining.
sjm said:
SJM,
I would have used the name Terrence Mann, but I didn't think anyone would get the reference. I personally feel free to co-opt any quote and use it as my own.
Signed,
Joe Biden and Milly-Vanilly
Williebetmore said:
I understand the Biden reference but not the Milly Vanilly one.
One thing I remember well about the Joe Biden affair was that, at the time, Alistair Cook, on his radio show in England (where I was at the time) related a personal story of how he'd listened to a politrical speech many years earlier in which somebody plagiarized his writings (though Cook never spoke up about it at the time). The speaker was a guy you've probably heard of...........John F Kennedy.
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sjm said:
Thanks sjm, I did not get the Biden reference ... Milly Vanilly was caught doing a lip sync concert ... Now we see Willies mouth move and someone elses words come out ... what I say is "pay no attention to the man behind the curtin" !
Dave
