Leap Year

Leap years don't seem quite fair to me. Everyone works an extra day and we don't get paid anymore. It's kind of like we are working for free. I think leap year day should be a national holiday. We really wouldn't lose too much productivity because it only comes around once every four years. And when it does come it would be pretty exciting. Who wouldn't be excited about an extra day off work. This is the kind of stuff Congress should be focusing on rather than steroids in Major League Baseball.

Broken

All around me things are going down. First, I have documented in detail how my company is broken. Then during a practice I fell on my shoulder funny when I was getting tackled and woke up the next day barely able to move it. I didn't have any structural damage but it was certainly not working very well. Then my computer froze, so I took it to the Apple store and it turned out that my hard drive broke. So it cost 250 bucks to get a new one. Although $85 was the 10 minutes of labor the clerk put into it. Hopefully bad things only come in three, because I'm starting to get tired of it.

Another One Bites the Dust

On Friday, another of my coworkers got canned. In this instance, it is unclear whether he got fired for something he did or if the company is still looking to get rid of people. I think the answer may be both. Granted, he did essentially mislead one of our bosses, but it was on such a small matter that firing seemed a little extreme. I was later kidding with another one my coworkers that one of the three of us needed to be fired by the end of the day, and he made the decision easy. Ironically, my job is probably safer because of the firing, but at the same time it solidifies my view that I need to get out of the company before something like that happens to me. It may just be a matter of time before I piss off the wrong person and am sent off. I would much rather go out on my own terms.

A Bad Month

The month of January was very bad on our company. After laying off three of my coworkers, demoting me, and closing our group in an attempt to become a 'leaner' company, we managed to post a $15,000,000 loss for the month. I later found out it got so bad that there was some question on whether or not the company would be able to afford the payroll. One of our employees (who is the brother-in-law of our boss) was told on Tuesday to start looking for a new job, then on Thursday was told to forget it. Apparently there was a meeting between that time when our partners decided to keep the company going for the time being. But it still seems that we ar one really bad day from coming in and finding out that I no longer have a job.

Lost and Found

On last Thursday, I lost my wallet. I placed it in my jacket pocket on my way to gym and headed through the snowy night to my buddies car. When we got to the gym, my phone had escaped. Losing it in such short period of time I was confident that I would be able to recover it. It had fell in my house, in our parking lot, in my buddy's car, or (the worst spot) outside the gym. While we were in the gym the city had been pounded by snow. After a thorough search of the car, I started to sift through the deep snow near the passenger side door only to come up empty. When I got home I searched desperately around the house. After finding nothing, I knew it had to be outside buried in the snow somewhere. So I called all my credit card companies, canceled my cards, and ordered new ones, knowing the entire time that once the snow melted my wallet would be laying outside our back door laying. So a week later, I came home from work to find two of my replacement credit cards sitting in my mail pile. No more than a hour later, I heard a knocking at the back door. My neighbor had found my wallet laying on the sidewalk after a little warm-up had melted some of the snow. It is only appropriate that within an hour of nearly completing replacing my loss, my wallet turns up knocking at my back door.