To fire consultants from my group. I am so sick of the same @$$hole causing all sorts of scheduling, billing, and personnel issues within my group. While he does report to me, I am not "his boss" and therefore cannot fire him. If I could I would give him the boot tomorrow at 8AM ( Read more... )

Well, here we are again for a week at my parents house in S. Florida. My mom and dad are "on their best behavior" so that is good. What is not good is the fact that we TOLD them, to have a professional service come and clean the entire house top to bottom. We specifically said to NOT HIRE THEIR FRIEND(s) as they have done this before and it did ( Read more... )

Today is my last day at my current employer. I am moving onto another company that has more career potential. I have been a traveling consultant for the past 12 yrs and am honestly done with it. New position is "Manager of Professional Services." So yes, I will have to travel some to meet clients, gather requirements etc, but will no longer be ( Read more... )

I find myself in an odd place this week as I work with a client that is part of an industry that I cannot stand. They are actually part of TWO industries that I cannot stand. Big Pharma and CAPO style farming. They are involved in both, and while I marvel at the technology, in reality all they do is server to make animals miserable before they go ( Read more... )

Well, my dad is at it again. Being a complete and total A-hole to my mom about her Parkinson's. He has ZERO patience for her and instead of helping her out of bed, chairs, walking etc slowly, he yanks her up just as fast and hard as he can. He is not a "caregiver" type person, but he has been shown and taught, even went to a free class at the ( Read more... )

Posting here because have some co-workers on FaceBook. I am SO fucking done with this job. LAST freaking minute travel plans. Friday at 3PM: "Hey you're going to Texas Sunday night" what fun. So this will be my first travel gig 2011, which I am fine with really. Until I tell them that I MUST be home early on Friday because I have my first ( Read more... )

Hi there everyone. I haven't posted her in a long time since FB has pretty much taken over the daily bitching, whining, and other stuff. I am going to take the stance of some other friends and put the deeper/longer stuff here. I will probably be loading this place up the next few days as I have a lot to get off my mind and onto the virtual paper ( Read more... )

It seems as if the season of our beloved dog Cody is about to end. I have had him for 12 yrs. He was the second dog that was truly "mine" that I had at my first house in Atlanta that I owned with my friend Derrick. He moved with me from house to house as I went through life and finally up here to Charlotte. He always plays well with others, just ( Read more... )

So we had a good visit with my parents over Thanksgiving week. It was good to see them, and they will be up in about 3 weeks for Christmas. My mom is not doing well with the Parkinson's and my dad is mostly an unhelpful ASS when it comes to taking care of her. She cooked, cleaned, sowed, ironed, etc for him for over 39 years, you think he could ( Read more... )

I would just like to comment here (and not on FB because some of said people are on FB) that A LOT of my friends wives used to be complete and total BITCHES.  I could not stand some of them.  After 15 - 20 minutes of conversation I just wanted to slap them and walk out of the room ( Read more... )