Obnoxious Bitch
Friday, May 17, 2002
A Plethora of Pink Slips
Y’know I work with some really great people… which is the reason I don’t mind having to put clothes on and go in every day! Today there were fewer of them there, because layoffs are a reality for those living a corporate life. While I’ll miss my friends (especially my former cube-buddy), I know they’ve been given an opportunity for change… and that’s always a good thing. To their credit, the company does provide extensive placement help to those who get laid off. Some folks out there in the dot-com world have no such luxuries; they’re lucky if they get their last paycheck. Scary.
My job changed quite a bit, and I’m really excited because I’ll get to learn all sorts of new geeky things. I’m also a little nervous because I want to do a good job, even though I barely have a toe in the water about digitizing media—my new path. But I’ve always been one to come out on the better end of “sink or swim” when faced with the ultimatum, so I’m not all that worried about it. My new cube-buddy and multimedia mentor is not only good at his job, he’s not the sort to be offended by my often rather inappropriate (in a corporate environment, anyway) sense of humor. That makes this change a bit easier, for sure 
I tend to swear like a sailor when I fuck things up, and learning something new will, I’m quite certain, be frought with fuckups for a while. At least I won’t have the stress of worrying that the first nasty thing out of my mouth will earn me a trip to HR, or (horror of horrors) to a Sensitivity seminar or some such. LOL
Obnoxious Bitch. Yep that’s a pretty fitting name for someone who can only go so far in being civilized. I’ve never been anyone’s idea of a nice girl or a lady… because I’ve always spoken my mind, and often in the crudest of language (it’s often more effective in making a point). But that’s what comes of living in the real world. Everything’s not nice, or pretty, or couched in tender phrases. Sometimes shit just is what it is, so why dance around the bald truth?
And there you have it. The reason I’ve never held any illusions of climbing anyone’s corporate ladder. Rush said it best:
Living in a fisheye lens
Caught in the camera eye
I have no heart to lie
I can’t pretend a stranger is
A long-awaited friend