Archive for January, 2009
fraud alert…
I just received this troubling message from my bank:
Dear Tom,
Customer Number: XXXXXXX993
This is a notification that a large purchase was made using your Electric Orange Card.
Here are the transaction details:
Date: 01/30/2009
Merchant: TACO TIME BELLEVUE
$ Amount: $8.20
What the fuck? Does everyone know that I was laid off? I know I spent more than I probably should have [...]
Read More..>>cha cha cha changes…
Since I’m going to be unemployed, and since I’ve been toying with this for a while, I’ve decided to jump in head first.
Minor Failures is dead.
Long Live Minor Failures…
Over the next few weeks, the blog will probably be either moved into the background or back over to livejournal, or maybe abandoned entirely, replaced by that [...]
Read More..>>dun dun DUUUUUUN….
Yup, it’s official: I’m being laid off from my job.
This is both good and bad news as far as I’m concerned. Bad, in that I will not be working and will have to actually look around for a new job. Again. Which is a sucky thing to have to do.
Good because this is giving me [...]
somedays you wonder just how much you can take…
And some days you start to think that maybe everything is going to be OK.
Read More..>>just in case there was any confusion…
hrrm…
I got pulled aside by my manager today. It’s been probably a month since a new job has come in for me to work on. I figured this probably wasn’t a good sign. Today my concerns were validated.
There is a good chance that I will be laid off in the next month or so. Nothing [...]