Friday, January 18, 2019
Remnants
-Well...remaining smart the two of us.
Despite everything!
-Been.
-A...decline note you?
-Precipice!
-The Mountain Goat leaps from precipice
to precipice and back again to piss.
-A blessing we both can do that at least.
-That goes too, the hose.
-Before or after the brain.
-Simultaneous!
-Well I’m okay with both.
-You should ask Gwen.
-You’re mixed up! She left YOU!
-Shame. And during my third reinvention.
-How’d that go?
-Going Great! I’m helping to start BANDSTAND for WHEEZERS!
-Better than yours truly. They just
called me in to offer a puny
termination package.
-Did you inform them that you
once led that outfit, now so
esteemed?
-Me or it?
-Sorry. Never again you or me.
-Will they stamp our foreheads?
-Already have.
Labels: age, ageism, employment, firing, intelligence, termination
Tuesday, January 16, 2018
The Final Question
Gemma added mass to any confusion.
And not just because she was a
big-boned girl.
Okay, she was supposed to bring
cookies to the retirement do for
old Schwartzy.
She heard rookies. So, came with
Decker and Delilah.
Who proved high!
It was downhill from there.
When's it uphill?
Not much at Consul Insurance.
Anyway! We keep it all straight in the
liability sector. Uh huh?
If somebody sues you, our policy
holder, look out!
Consul exists for misfits to be
employed.
All places do?
I didn’t know that! How come we
all don’t die of incompetence?
Our own and the Massive Surround?
Labels: confusion, employment, incompetence, liability insurance
Thursday, November 16, 2017
Conversation Without a Date
-Do you have the moral authority
to dismiss me?
-What do I know from MORAL?
I have the Business Authority.
-It's because I'm a Jew!
-That never helps.
-There are LAWS in this country!
-Lovely ones and they sound beautiful!
Like they do everywhere.
-You haven't heard the last of...
-Strange! Because I believe I have.
Labels: "Laws", anti-Semitic, employment, Jew, laws, power
Wednesday, June 19, 2013
Form and Content
Form
The sixth repetitive form that week, and I was careless
filling it out.
Maybe I stuck in one mild flippancy. Didn't list Mickey
Mouse as reference or anything like that.
As a result, summarily dismissed.
My boss was nice enough. He kicked, but their word was final.
The Employment Counselor said that in his experience my odds were now three to one. "First client got plunged into a vagueness soup which can never be resolved; second was jailed; third got an identical job, as if boss and coworkers were cloned or something."
He asked me the designation of the form I had offended with. I couldn't remember.
“For sure 14E. When they get really pissed at something, they use 14E.”
Told me would take ten thousand to get a black market 14E and resubmit.
“I don't get any of that. I'd get 14E'd myself! But if you can come up with the ten, I’d feel pretty positive.”
“Break the law, then?”
“One way of looking at it.”
Labels: arbitrary firing, black market, employment, forms
Sunday, May 20, 2012
Switch
x assumes y's persona.
What bosses sought.
As Orwell says, the face
grows to fit the mask.
Quickly redundant y
fired. z observes
amazed. At first.
x assumes y's persona.
What bosses sought.
As Orwell says, the face
grows to fit the mask.
Quickly redundant y
fired. z observes
amazed. At first.
Labels: employment, mask, personality
