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Here’s my funny story about asking for two months off.

My boss didn’t much care for me. I worked for a global mobile phone handset provider with an R&D center in San Diego.

It was a slow time for engineering at our R&D center; i figured good time to ask for a sabatical. I was a principle staff engr so had earned it.

I asked my boss, “I would really like to take eight weeks off for a trip through Europe that my wife and I have been dreaming about for ten years. I’m giving you a couple months advance notice. You’re such a great boss, I really do appreciate your consideration of this request” *SMOOCH* *SMOOCH* …gratuitous ass kissing

He says, “NOPE! We are so busy. Sorry. We need you so much. We cannot afford to have you away for two full months”

Now, Piggington readers, are you ready for the ironic punch line that God bestowed upon this absurd scene?

A few weeks later the GM of that R&D center announces,

“All twelve hundred of you are laid off in ninety days. Now we cutting the center down to five hundred jobs, so this means we’ll have a free-for-all where you all scramble and scrap by re-applying for those five hundred remaining jobs. Sounds like fun, eh? Ready, Set, Go!”

So I had three months left of work, and ZERO job security.

I walked in my boss’ office and said, “You know that two month vacation request of mine you rejected? Well, I’m TAKING IT. All eight weeks.”

He says, “It doesn’t sound like you are ASKING my permission?”

I say, “I’m not.”

He says, “Well, I guess that’s OK for you to go for the two months! What am i gonna do after all, lay you off TWICE?”

(He had gotten his own walking papers himself, and in fact turned out did NOT get one of the five hundred remaining jobs.)

Now I am implying that I went ahead and enjoyed two months backpacking in Europe while I should have been searching for my next job, since I only had a few weeks remaining once back from vacation before getting laid off…ahh but I did have several months severance pay coming…it all worked out in the end. Found a job up in the Bay Area.

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Here’s my funny story about asking for two months off.

My boss didn’t much care for me. I worked for a global mobile phone handset provider with an R&D center in San Diego.

It was a slow time for engineering at our R&D center; i figured good time to ask for a sabatical. I was a principle staff engr so had earned it.

I asked my boss, “I would really like to take eight weeks off for a trip through Europe that my wife and I have been dreaming about for ten years. I’m giving you a couple months advance notice. You’re such a great boss, I really do appreciate your consideration of this request” *SMOOCH* *SMOOCH* …gratuitous ass kissing

He says, “NOPE! We are so busy. Sorry. We need you so much. We cannot afford to have you away for two full months”

Now, Piggington readers, are you ready for the ironic punch line that God bestowed upon this absurd scene?

A few weeks later the GM of that R&D center announces,

“All twelve hundred of you are laid off in ninety days. Now we cutting the center down to five hundred jobs, so this means we’ll have a free-for-all where you all scramble and scrap by re-applying for those five hundred remaining jobs. Sounds like fun, eh? Ready, Set, Go!”

So I had three months left of work, and ZERO job security.

I walked in my boss’ office and said, “You know that two month vacation request of mine you rejected? Well, I’m TAKING IT. All eight weeks.”

He says, “It doesn’t sound like you are ASKING my permission?”

I say, “I’m not.”

He says, “Well, I guess that’s OK for you to go for the two months! What am i gonna do after all, lay you off TWICE?”

(He had gotten his own walking papers himself, and in fact turned out did NOT get one of the five hundred remaining jobs.)

Now I am implying that I went ahead and enjoyed two months backpacking in Europe while I should have been searching for my next job, since I only had a few weeks remaining once back from vacation before getting laid off…ahh but I did have several months severance pay coming…it all worked out in the end. Found a job up in the Bay Area.

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Here’s my funny story about asking for two months off.

My boss didn’t much care for me. I worked for a global mobile phone handset provider with an R&D center in San Diego.

It was a slow time for engineering at our R&D center; i figured good time to ask for a sabatical. I was a principle staff engr so had earned it.

I asked my boss, “I would really like to take eight weeks off for a trip through Europe that my wife and I have been dreaming about for ten years. I’m giving you a couple months advance notice. You’re such a great boss, I really do appreciate your consideration of this request” *SMOOCH* *SMOOCH* …gratuitous ass kissing

He says, “NOPE! We are so busy. Sorry. We need you so much. We cannot afford to have you away for two full months”

Now, Piggington readers, are you ready for the ironic punch line that God bestowed upon this absurd scene?

A few weeks later the GM of that R&D center announces,

“All twelve hundred of you are laid off in ninety days. Now we cutting the center down to five hundred jobs, so this means we’ll have a free-for-all where you all scramble and scrap by re-applying for those five hundred remaining jobs. Sounds like fun, eh? Ready, Set, Go!”

So I had three months left of work, and ZERO job security.

I walked in my boss’ office and said, “You know that two month vacation request of mine you rejected? Well, I’m TAKING IT. All eight weeks.”

He says, “It doesn’t sound like you are ASKING my permission?”

I say, “I’m not.”

He says, “Well, I guess that’s OK for you to go for the two months! What am i gonna do after all, lay you off TWICE?”

(He had gotten his own walking papers himself, and in fact turned out did NOT get one of the five hundred remaining jobs.)

Now I am implying that I went ahead and enjoyed two months backpacking in Europe while I should have been searching for my next job, since I only had a few weeks remaining once back from vacation before getting laid off…ahh but I did have several months severance pay coming…it all worked out in the end. Found a job up in the Bay Area.

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Agree with everything you wrote. Great post.

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Agree with everything you wrote. Great post.

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Agree with everything you wrote. Great post.

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Agree with everything you wrote. Great post.

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Agree with everything you wrote. Great post.

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In between my yoga and singing I’ll be at the range with my new .357 Mag….

Well that Magnum may come in handy if this all ends with “riots in the streets” as predicted in the words of a “a prominent executive.”

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/19/AR2008091902809.html

I have once shot a .357 Mag in target practice. SCARY GUN, really scary. Almost knocked me over and I weigh 220 lbs.

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In between my yoga and singing I’ll be at the range with my new .357 Mag….

Well that Magnum may come in handy if this all ends with “riots in the streets” as predicted in the words of a “a prominent executive.”

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/19/AR2008091902809.html

I have once shot a .357 Mag in target practice. SCARY GUN, really scary. Almost knocked me over and I weigh 220 lbs.

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In between my yoga and singing I’ll be at the range with my new .357 Mag….

Well that Magnum may come in handy if this all ends with “riots in the streets” as predicted in the words of a “a prominent executive.”

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/19/AR2008091902809.html

I have once shot a .357 Mag in target practice. SCARY GUN, really scary. Almost knocked me over and I weigh 220 lbs.

[stockstradr]

In between my yoga and singing I’ll be at the range with my new .357 Mag….

Well that Magnum may come in handy if this all ends with “riots in the streets” as predicted in the words of a “a prominent executive.”

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/19/AR2008091902809.html

I have once shot a .357 Mag in target practice. SCARY GUN, really scary. Almost knocked me over and I weigh 220 lbs.

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In between my yoga and singing I’ll be at the range with my new .357 Mag….

Well that Magnum may come in handy if this all ends with “riots in the streets” as predicted in the words of a “a prominent executive.”

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/19/AR2008091902809.html

I have once shot a .357 Mag in target practice. SCARY GUN, really scary. Almost knocked me over and I weigh 220 lbs.

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Greenspan is a very smart guy who guaranteed himself a peppy economy during his post as Fed Chief, by SELLING OUT our economic future by creating the greatest credit bubble in the history of this country. He visited his cushy friend, Dubya in the White House, more frequently than any fed chief has ever visited a sitting president. Of course, it is hard to say whose nose was up whose butt during those meetings, but one of their noses was certainly brown.

And then Greenspan left his office right ON TIME when he saw the sh_t was about to hit the fan.

Then he wrote a book for which I’ll paraphrase the tile as, “None of this economic MESS is my fault. Please preserve my stellar legacy.”

Greenspan is not an American Hero. He’s a traitor.

You know whose organization had the power to stop the fraud in banks originating loans to homeowners with ZERO capability of paying them back? The Fed had the chartered power to govern that activity, but Greenspan DID NOTHING.

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Greenspan is a very smart guy who guaranteed himself a peppy economy during his post as Fed Chief, by SELLING OUT our economic future by creating the greatest credit bubble in the history of this country. He visited his cushy friend, Dubya in the White House, more frequently than any fed chief has ever visited a sitting president. Of course, it is hard to say whose nose was up whose butt during those meetings, but one of their noses was certainly brown.

And then Greenspan left his office right ON TIME when he saw the sh_t was about to hit the fan.

Then he wrote a book for which I’ll paraphrase the tile as, “None of this economic MESS is my fault. Please preserve my stellar legacy.”

Greenspan is not an American Hero. He’s a traitor.

You know whose organization had the power to stop the fraud in banks originating loans to homeowners with ZERO capability of paying them back? The Fed had the chartered power to govern that activity, but Greenspan DID NOTHING.

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