its all true

so it's all true. the MD, idiot techboss and a couple of other senior managers were fired last friday from the company i used to work at. have had lots of emails from ex-colleagues whose lives were made a misery by idiot techboss, gloating and celebrating at the news of his misfortune. one of the guys even suggested going out for celebratory drinks to mark the occasion.

idiot tech boss was supposed to be speaking at seminar in a couple of weeks. there was a young graduate that idiot techboss treated badly and eventually fired a couple of years ago. anyways this guy has not forgotten how we was screwed over and after he calmed down from the euphoria of hearing idiot techboss was fired, he called up the organisation that is holding the seminar and pretended to be a delegate that was due to attend, and said that he had heard idiot techboss was fired from his job for gross misconduct and would he be be entitled to a refund of his ticket seeing as it looked like it was going to be cancelled. thats quite funny.

the moral of the story is don't screw people over and try and get on with everyone. you don't have to be their best friend. just treat them fairly and in an even handed way and be humble because you never know what might happen and one day you could find yourself in the shit. its a small world and you never know when you might run into the same people again. when i worked in banks i found that some of the people i worked with new some people from previous banks i had worked at.

some of my friends have also started to see peoples profiles being updated on linkedin and emails being sent out to former colleagues, fishing for opportunities. personally i have never been into the whole linkedin professional networking thing. maybe its just my experience but i know a few people on it, and those few are absolutely useless. is linkedin just a secret society for dumbass idiots to find employment for each other. not so much the blind leading the blind but the idiots employing idiots. maybe its me and i am just cynical.

anyways, i will be getting the lowdown on what went down tonight because i am meeting a couple of guys who still work at the internet company and one of them is a senior manager there. he will know exactly how it all went down. there is no gossip (that i am aware of) in my current job, so it will be good to hear all the murky details.

am on earlies this week which is 8 am starts. feeling a bit tired but i think i am actually preferring it. who would have thunk it, someone like me preferring an early morning start. that would have been unthinkable a couple of years ago, and besides i used to do 7am starts at one of the banks i worked at so 8am feels late in comparison. work has been busy the last couple of days and i have to work this saturday as well, but its fine. i really can't complain and thats saying something because i can be a whining fucker.

meeting up with a couple of friends tomorrow night as well. haven't seen them in a few months so will be good to catch up, though saying that, one of them just told me he will find out if he is getting fired, or not tomorrow and the other guy told me he has just seperated from his wife. christ almighty its all just doom and gloom out there. there was me getting pissed off about my bike get stolen. it looks like nothing in comparison to whats going on with these people.

today i have mostly been listening to jack penate - be the one. i always say stuff like this is the best song of the year so far or whatever, but this really is one of the best new songs this year. its wicked. i think i might even purchase a download of this song.

take care california girl