Scared Yet?
Oh economic stimulus. I think you didn't work out so well. Not that I would say no to a check in the mail, it's just....well I still pay over $800 a month in school loans and half of my family income goes to the mortgage...I just discovered I may have to stop eatting everyday. That way at least my clothes will fit and I won't have to buy more...which sadly is one of my favorite activities.

If the whole economic crisis wasn't blazingly clear enough, it's getting more so around here. Today I missed a conference call and it was about how our company is laying off 100 brokers. Yikes. Then there was a long email about it, but really it's hard to put a positive spin on the fact they just cut 100 people pink slips 2 weeks before Thanksgiving. The guy that left from my cube row had a pregnant wife. Brokers being commission based can't even really cost the company money to keep on so I"m not really sure where they are going with this. I'm not in that particular field, but it still doesn't radiate warm fuzzies throughout the office.

In other office news, I myself probably don't come off as 'nice' most of the time. I'm really not that bitchy, (I swear!)I just know better than to create more work for myself seeing as I'm not paid per project or gold star and there are people that would jump all over the chance to get someone else to do their work. I felt kind of bad though when a person trying to be nice -who I know has crappy superiors anyways- was coming over reapeatedly with needs and I basically just handed over whatever he wanted and gave him a get lost look and went back to my other projects. Ok, that I was more just thinking aloud about when his superior basically laughed about it and said he deserved it. Ouch. I was totally right about those guys. You could not pay me enough to work on their team.....or could you? Please don't offer.

And a personal favorite office humiliation goes to my pre-procedure medical interview today. There is nothing more fun than answering questions in an open cube environment about my gastrointestinal symptoms and past medical history. I love that the adorable guy sitting behind me now knows I had a breast reduction in 1998 and I have loose stools on a daily basis. I can't think of anything LESS humiliating at this moment. You know other than publically announcing them.