BS: Mrrzy's on the dole

Subject: Mrrzy's on the dole
From: Mrrzy
Date: 13 Sep 02 - 10:44 AM

Lessee - I've been downsized, made redundant, let go, laid off (unfortunate, that "off"), handed my hat (of which I wear many), and so on. I am now looking for work that requires intelligence, maybe statistics, research, thought, and maybe French, anybody know anything? (They took that job and shoved it...)

Subject: RE: BS: Mrrzy's on the dole
From: Amos
Date: 13 Sep 02 - 10:46 AM

Damn it!! My condolences on an unexpected jolt, Mrrzy. And felicitations on your bold new adventure!!

A

Subject: RE: BS: Mrrzy's on the dole
From: InOBU
Date: 13 Sep 02 - 10:57 AM

When times get tough, the tough get busking! I wish I had real advice, best wishes to you and the kids. Cheers Larry

Subject: RE: BS: Mrrzy's on the dole
From: Amergin
Date: 13 Sep 02 - 11:02 AM

Jesus, Mrrzy....sorry to hear that....I hope you find something soon...some companies just do not have the brains to appreciate what they have...

take care, my friend.

Subject: RE: BS: Mrrzy's on the dole
From: Mrrzy
Date: 13 Sep 02 - 11:35 AM

Busking, now there's a thought! Talk about BENEFITS, hee hee! They would probably pay me to stop!

Subject: RE: BS: Mrrzy's on the dole
From: wysiwyg
Date: 13 Sep 02 - 11:42 AM

Naw, I am sure it is a Sign that you have a Mission to be a fulltime folkie! *G*G*

~Susan

Subject: RE: BS: Mrrzy's on the dole
From: Kim C
Date: 13 Sep 02 - 11:55 AM

Mrrzy, I bet this job went away because something much better is about to come along. Hang in there, and despair ye not. :-)

Do I remember right that you're in Charlottesville? What about the university?

Subject: RE: BS: Mrrzy's on the dole
From: InOBU
Date: 13 Sep 02 - 01:31 PM

Well, if ya need a new song or two to busk with, check out my latest fire fighter song, on the post, A little help for an NYC fireman... cheers and good luck, Larry

Subject: RE: BS: Mrrzy's on the dole
From: Morticia
Date: 13 Sep 02 - 01:41 PM

Sorry to hear it, they must be very stupid to let you go.Something will turn up soon though, you'll see. Hey,I'm looking for an assistant.....wanna move to the UK?

Subject: RE: BS: Mrrzy's on the dole
From: SharonA
Date: 13 Sep 02 - 01:58 PM

Oh, rats... and on Friday the Thirteenth, too! Sorry to hear this news, Mrrzy. Layoffs and "downsizing the company" are a bitch (I'm one of the many, many folks who've been there, done that) but they never mean that the layoffee has been downsized; however small they may make you feel right now, it's only a feeling and not a fact.

Hope this turns into the beginning of a great opportunity for you: a life change, the perfect job, and/or whatever you're hankerin' for. In the meantime, take advantage of the break and do a little relaxing!

Wishing you all the best,
Sharon

Subject: RE: BS: Mrrzy's on the dole
From: GUEST,okthen sans cookie
Date: 13 Sep 02 - 04:26 PM

Mrrzy, with french and intelligence I might suggest you read translations for say international patents or science manuscripts, (or the dreaded video manual), you might get to work from home.Hope this is of some small assistance.

Subject: RE: BS: Mrrzy's on the dole
From: UB Ed
Date: 13 Sep 02 - 04:34 PM

Bad Luck (but maybe not). I'm sure there will be a silver lining. There should be something available at UVA.

Keep your head high!

Ed

Subject: RE: BS: Mrrzy's on the dole
From: GUEST,Charley Noble on Highway 101
Date: 13 Sep 02 - 05:04 PM

Mrrzy-Hard luck! There's always pots of money to be made in singing sea shanties.

Cheerily,
Charley Noble

Subject: RE: BS: Mrrzy's on the dole
From: GUEST,SharonA, logged out for the day
Date: 13 Sep 02 - 05:05 PM

What about tutoring foreign exchange high-school students (and college students) from France or Cambodia? Or tutoring kids who are learning French?

Subject: RE: BS: Mrrzy's on the dole
From: Gareth
Date: 13 Sep 02 - 07:09 PM

Sorry to hear your news. I've been there done it, got the P45 (UK Joke)

Don't give up , keep fighting, something will turn up. and for the better!

Gareth

Subject: RE: BS: Mrrzy's on the dole
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 14 Sep 02 - 01:30 AM

Bummer, at least it was a 'downsizing' rather than a sacking... that sort of thing can really put a crimp in your CV!

Take some time for yourself if you can, spend a week or two just doing all those odd jobs you never had time for, then you can concentrate better on the jobfinding. If I could do that every 6 months or so, I'd be saner and my house would be less cluttered!!

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Mrrzy's on the dole
From: Pennny
Date: 14 Sep 02 - 06:49 AM

Plenty of work in the nursing homes.

Subject: RE: BS: Mrrzy's on the dole
From: greg stephens
Date: 14 Sep 02 - 07:33 AM

I've looked at the qualifications mentioned in your posting and I reckon research into the origins of cajun music is your best bet. Well itwould be interesting, anyway. Getting paid would be the difficulty.
Seriously, good luck. To people of an enquiring mind, such drastic changes always throw up wonderful new opportunities. You'll be fine. It's all waiting for you round the corner, as long as you look round all the corners.

Subject: RE: BS: Mrrzy's on the dole
From: Hollowfox
Date: 14 Sep 02 - 05:23 PM

When I get home, even before I have supper, I'll fire up one of my purebred @#^&*-reduction candles for you.

Subject: RE: BS: Mrrzy's on the dole
From: GUEST,Dani
Date: 14 Sep 02 - 05:33 PM

Mrr -

Remember Jean-Michel and A.J. from dinner? They specialize in (respectively) translation and editing. Want to send me a resume? I'd be happy to forward.

Dani (who has not forgotten the Twister game, only is swamped with new restaurant opening this week)

Subject: RE: BS: Mrrzy's on the dole
From: GUEST,Dani
Date: 14 Sep 02 - 05:34 PM

Mrr -

Remember Jean-Michel and A.J. from dinner? They specialize in (respectively) translation and editing. Want to send me a resume? I'd be happy to forward.

Dani (who has not forgotten the Twister game, only is swamped with new restaurant opening this week)

Subject: RE: BS: Mrrzy's on the dole
From: Mrrzy
Date: 14 Sep 02 - 10:06 PM

Hey, yeah, Dani! Maybe they can help me get my resume into French, which is not something I actually have the vocabulary for (I can do the science, but not the publishing)... good thought, ask if you can pm me their email? Happy restaurant opening, maybe when the boys have a three-day weekend we'll pop down and sample.

Frankly, I'm not going to worry unless I am still sans prospects by Thanksgiving.

...I said and said and said those words... I said them, but I lied them. (Extra points for recognizing the speaker of that quote.) That is, *I* am not worried. But I am chewing my cuticles to the absolute bone, and for the first time in my life have absolutely FEROCIOUS allergies - the sneezing (which would be OK if it didn't reach quite so far down my body during the excruciatingly extra-long AAAAAaaah phase), itchy eyes and nose and inside my EARS, and I seem to be allergic to kleenex as if I break down and use it my nose gets worse and the skin around it starts itching too NOT to mention my eyebrows and eyelashes, as if I were allergic to those little beasties that live there and clean the follicles and YES I've tried saline AND the naphta-whatever drops that you can't use all the time and Benedryl (which at least makes me sleep through some of it) AND non-sleepy formulas and I can't WAIT till Monday to go to a REAL doctor instead of a pharmacy and get something to put me out of this misery! Bloody unconscious!

But I'm not worried, and it certainly beats still WORKING there!

Subject: RE: BS: Mrrzy's on the dole
From: Mudlark
Date: 14 Sep 02 - 11:19 PM

Mrrzy...Very sorry but from the sound of that last post you're well shut of the job. Stress has always been big-time allergy trigger for me. Get thee to a hammock, and swing a while...And then good luck with finding something that is rewarding and challenging in a place that respects your multiferous capabilities.

Subject: RE: BS: Mrrzy's on the dole
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 15 Sep 02 - 05:09 AM

Sounds like you've got the released worker version of Post Traumatic Stress there.... after being all pent up whilst being at work, you've been released from work and you're de-stressing at a furious rate. Body has decided it can't cope with it and has shut down a few things whilst it copes (bit like task manager asking you to shut down things when you run short on memory). It's a well documented fact that people under stress suffer more immediately it's removed. I get a migraine every first day of my holidays. People suffering stress at work are often worse at weekends, especially Sundays, when they have to pyche themselves up for Mondays. We've had a sudden spate of illness at work this week, and I feel like shite because we were told Thursday last, that our bullying boss is not coming back to my department. Everyone is so relieved, they just all let go and it took it's toll. My autumnal insomnia has come 2 weeks early and it's only now I'm recognising it as a symptom of de-stressing. Now I realise that, it's easier to manage. I'm doing my usual anti-stress things (painting, watching movies, listening to music, beating the crap out of small furry animals....) and it's working slowly.

Your allergies are probably the result of you de-stressing; be careful, treat the symptoms but don't overdo it, you may remove any resistance you'd built up.

Take care dear, relax, chill out, take some time to do something for yourself, and put earwax on your fingers. It should stop you chewing them. Failing that, keep them on a keyboard (computer or music, it doesn't matter) and keep them busy... type out all those songs on bits of paper... work out how to use another program, find out how the Blue Clickies work, anything to stop them going in your mouth!

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Mrrzy's on the dole
From: wysiwyg
Date: 15 Sep 02 - 07:14 AM

Mrr, B5, B5, B5. AKA Pantothenic acid. Immediately. 400 mg/day. And more calcium to balance it.

~Susan

Subject: RE: BS: Mrrzy's on the dole
From: GUEST,Dani
Date: 15 Sep 02 - 03:16 PM

Shel Silverstein?

Subject: RE: BS: Mrrzy's on the dole
From: SharonA
Date: 16 Sep 02 - 11:39 AM

Dr. Seuss, in "What Was I Scared Of?"

http://home.netpower.no/knuth/wwiso/wwiso.html (not a very good reprint of the poem; better to find the book at a bookstore, which is where I saw it!)

Subject: RE: BS: Mrrzy's on the dole
From: Mrrzy
Date: 16 Sep 02 - 04:21 PM

SharonA wins! The pale green pants with nobody inside them were in my brain for decades before I re-read the Sneetches as a grown-up, but I had thought it was a lost lyric.

I hope I'm destressed by now - the latest round of Benedryl seems to have knocked some sense back into my histamine system, so I only sneeze a dozen or so times a day already. I am looking for a hammock, but found a hot tub in the meantime!

Subject: RE: BS: Mrrzy's on the dole
From: SharonA
Date: 16 Sep 02 - 04:49 PM

Oh, goody, I won! Now, where can I redeem those extra points? *G*

Mrrzy, the best hammock I ever sat/swung/snoozed in was an old canvas-and-rope one that my father had from his days in the Navy during WW2. If you can find one in an Army-Navy store, I highly recommend it!

Subject: RE: BS: Mrrzy's on the dole
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 16 Sep 02 - 04:53 PM

They're great, those hammocks and they don't leave your bum looking like a chess board.

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Mrrzy's on the dole
From: Mr Red
Date: 16 Sep 02 - 05:35 PM

Intelligence AND statistics, you do make it tough **BG**

Subject: RE: BS: Mrrzy's on the dole
From: MAG
Date: 20 Sep 02 - 01:45 AM

Try baby shampoo on the eyelids, Mrrz --- I've had blephoritis (fancy word for inflamed eyelids) for years, and it helps. If you can talk the doctor out of some tobradex (topical steroid) that works good, too. -- MA