you sir, are the best, good luck down the road KingFish.

you're probably a decent guy because you got that petition but your posts make me think you're a douche. Why embarrass someone infront of 75 people no matter how much of a dick he was?

I think the real question is, why not embarrass someone in front of 75 people because of how much of a dick he was?

Weird, weird stuff going on via email exchanges. Too tired to update right now...will try to tomorrow at some point or over the weekend.

I do not think I am going to give them a commitment, but will hang on a bit longer while I wait for the "perfect" job to surface.

Wife and kid are out of town...having about 30 people over to watch the UFC fight tomorrow...about 25 of them coworkers. I wanted to keep it under 10 people. Oops. I kinda feel like that kid in HS who tries to have a small get-together, then everyone hears about it and before you know it...police are at the door.

This may get ugly. I need to pick up more beer.

Just had 45 people in my house (43 coworkers) to watch the UFC fight. About 15 more than I expected. Had great time. Downed a ****load of liquor and beer.

Happily buzzed. Lotta cleaning to do tomorrow.

Lol I hate my bosses but I love my coworkers. And for the record...KingFish goes shot for shot with ANYONE. I own this ****. King Kong ain't got nothing on me. **** tomorrow gonna suck. Thank god for autocorrect cause I really butchered this whole post.

7 ppl apending the night. It's like camp. Maybe I'll shown them this thread, but doubt it.

Good night all. Happy new year if I don't recover on time. Lol

Dont show them this thread, just inviting trouble unless thats what you want.

Great thread.

Suscribed

don't show them the thread. u never know who will forward this to hr.

Ya I didn't show thread to anyone. Seemed like an okay idea 15 drinks in, but thought better of it.

show them this thread, **** burning bridges nuke that ****

This is 100% correct. Not to come off as a complete ass here, the opinions of people who make 50k a year simply do not come from the same perspective.

Making 30k and having a chance to make 70k is much much much bigger than from 150k to 250k. At 30k you're barely living. At 150k you can have most things in this world except you may have to wait a little bit for it every once in a while. As an example at 250k you can pretty much buy a brand new (reasonable) car and trade it in for the newer model every year, whereas you might do it every 2 or 3 years at 150k.

There comes a point where happiness is what is important in life and you're in the "sweet spot" in terms of how much you are working and how much you are making. Most people, unfortunately, never even get to this area. It's much easier to accomplish if you're spouse makes a decent salary, and in this case the OP's wife does pretty good too. All in all he's happy, he loves his family and like (liked?) his job and passed up on the 250k job that would make him miserable and have a soul-crushing commute. It's not even anywhere close to a decision and I'm surprised it was even considered, unless he was scared he was going to go from making 150k to zero by being laid off. Making 0 dollars WILL make you consider some weird things.

It may sound extreme, but would you consider moving to a small town in Alaska to make 500k a year but you have to commit to staying for at least 5-7 years? Some people would jump at the chance. I would laugh at it and say no. I dont' make anywhere in the remote vicinity of 500k, but I wouldn't give up my life, my happiness, my friends, my family for more money. I'm very much ok with what I make and what I have to give up to make it - almost nothing except an easy 40 hours a week.

OP - great thread BTW. I don't recall hearing about too many people who do better at work for not caring about what people think. I guess being a good guy to the people around you still carries some weight in this world. Most people wish they had a boss like that. At work, the little things really do count.

Bump - Any updates?

Yeah I need to put something together. More comedy of errors from management but right now sort of too pissed off to make it entertaining. I'll update tomorrow when I cool off.

Needless to say I have very little faith in the direction of this company. I do not think I can stay here...either they just don't get it or I don't. Either way we don't see eye to eye.

Bright note: I updated my LinkedIn profile to "contact me with job offers" (or whatever that cat says) and got 6 inquiries within 3 hours. Two of them I am taking seriously.

I told a few of my direct reports who I trust and who I don't want to "abandon" that I am likely leaving soon.

Rent house out, rent new house with the money you're receiving from
The owned house. Stay for a year. Reassess options at the end of first year. If you decide that you don't like it, push your luck and ask for more benefits. Even if they say no you were going to quit anyway. You'll be 200,000 up and not out of pocket from the rental as youll have it covered already.

Take the deal and run. Sometimes you have to take something before the storm hits. Which if you
Lose your current job I guarantee we will see a rage thread soon.

Interview tomorrow. Based on initial conversations, I want this job.

Plan is to be gone by February at the latest.

Will update more...just not in mood to rehash **** at this time...sry.

For some reason this thread make me incredibly happy!!!

Thank you for posting King Fish!


Good luck with interview....

Give us the full update KF the people must know!

F the people!

Ok...I know I owe an update, but have been ridiculously busy and I just hate typing these things on my Iphone. I promise to make a tried and true valient effort to give a cliffs version of the last week or so tomorrow...

In the meantime. Interview went very well. This is a rather large fortune 500-type company...about 20x the size of my current place. Set to meet tomorrow with their VP of US Marketing. Then if things go well flying out for a final meet and great with their CMO or whoever they align me with.

I really like what they had to say, and pretty sure they liked what I had to say. If I land this opportunity, I will be one happy Fish.

Hurdle 1 is cleared. Now for the next obstacle...

Sorry I am obtuse with the details, but well...I assume y'all can understand why.

Good luck KF!

Solitary...a month.

If I were to stab someone in the neck repeatedly with a fairly dull knife or pair of scissors, would that be an HR violation if I did not use office equipment?

Depends if you get blood on the carpet.

update?

update: King fish is a lazy ****, whoa, shocker