I'm finally back on TA

DISCLAIMER: If you don't feel like reading about someone ranting about the last 2 months of calamities in their life, then go ahead and hit the back button now. You've been warned.



Ok, so I haven't been on TA in a while. Here's the rundown. Early July, the 7th to be precise, I was fired from my job of 3 years. Actually it was exactly a month before my 3 year anniversary. Sweet. So yeah, fired. I've never been fired from a job in my life! Not my style. So why was I fired? Cause I said the F word at work. Seriously. That type of language is a daily occurrence with everyone I worked with, including managers. I didn't work directly with customers, and I had my own little office I shared with two other fairly vulgar people. So why did they all of a sudden decide to fire me for dropping an F bomb this time? Well, back up to last December. There was a company wide meeting where the bigwigs all touted "we're not participating in this recession!! The economy is just great, it's the news trying to scare everyone. Corporate wants us to lay people off, but we said 'no way!'. We're not going to lay anybody off." Well, during the entire year, here and there, there was some very suspicious firings going on. Like someone getting to work early, but then being in the bathroom when the clock strikes 8am, and then returning to their desk at 8:02 to be told that they are late and to clean out their desk. Brutal. The way I see it, the corporate bigwigs were pressuring my work to lay people off, but they kind of pigeon holed themselves by saying they weren't going to lay anybody off. So they took every opportunity to fire people that they could, but can still come out and say "we haven't laid anyone off! We're doing great financially!". It just happened to be my turn that day, I guess. I was a really great employee, and was training someone to fill my position because I had just got promoted to a new position. I was about a week away from starting that promotion. FML. Oh well, that job sucked anyway I guess.

Calamity #2: About a week after getting fired from my job, my girlfriend of 5 years decides to dump me. Ever heard the expression "kick a man when he's down"? Anyway, that was sort of brewing for a while, we had gotten sort of bored of each other, and 5 years is a long freakin time. But we also lived together, and shared all our bills. So her breaking up and moving out on me right after I lost my job was about as low a blow as it gets. So here I am, jobless, girlfriendless, and stuck with all the bills to try an pay myself. Again, FML. But here's the relevant part. The ex-girlfriend is the one who owned the computer. Go ahead and bounce, sweetie, girls come and go. But my whole entire life is on your computer! Don't take that! So to bring things full circle, I haven't been on TA in a long time cause I didn't have a computer or internet. Luckily, I had saved up a little money, and with a little help from my sweet grandma, I'm now the proud owner of a Macbook Pro. And the internet got hooked back up in my name yesterday. So I should be back in effect with my interwebs! I had been trying to jump on TA whenever I was at a friends computer, or on my iPod when I'm near wifi, but that wasn't very often. I'm sure I've missed out on a ton of awesome stuff in the last month and a half. But I did just pick up Modern Combat, and so far I'm LOVING it. It's almost exactly like COD Modern Warfare, which is not a bad thing at all. So yeah, feel free to fill me in on any major news or events that might have gone down since mid July. I'll be perusing the archives as much as possible, and trying to pretend I've been here all along.

Oh, and I'm already dating a new girl who is cuter and awesome-er than my boring old girlfriend. Things are never as bad as they seem. Now I gotta find me a jobby job.

 

Thanks for the support, guys! THIS is why I love TA so much.

Errrr... yeah, probably should change that picture BRB.