These are the blue rubberized lugguage tags you can get at the CO online store. I got the CM ones at the NYC Travel show on my trip to PTY and MEX. Now if I can get te Air Mic ones I will have the trifecta!!

Yea, i had all these booked and had to get them flown. I know that sounds like I was tourtured but I have been busy trying to get into a new job and this has just added stress to that work.

That upgrade on Amazing Race was very interesting. I dont think United wanted the situation covered on the air and I am sure that the crew was given a training after UA Executives saw that footage.


SSullivan - I understand the issues of packing and moving all too well!! I dont have anything to do with my move and I am stressed over my stuff getting here. I think that a lot has to do with the fact that it will arrive on either Weds or Thurs both days that I work and wont have a lot of time to deal with stuff coming in. UGH!!

I think I had too many carbs for lunch. I've read that twice and I still can't get my mind around it. :eek::D

You can do it.

I went through a very similar panic in the last days/weeks before the move from BTR to here...it was almost paralyzing at some times.

Finally, what it took was a friend coming over, holding up one item at a time, and saying "PACK OR TOSS" and then, if the former, in a box it went. Still wretched, though.

OK, off to Philly I go...

OMG --- Just got an email from my moving company!! The cost for moving is now estimated at 4100 vs 2800!! Well, I guess I am back to moving myself next time. UGH!!! :mad::mad::mad:

I seems I'm going to have to make a giant decision in a couple of days. Last week's interview did go well. They are going to give me an offer later this week. Crap that means I'm going to have to choose between current position FT and that one. Both have pluses and minues.

Hey, this is better fortune than we were seeing six months ago for both of us. :-:

I have relocated myself to the LAX AC. I'm not looking forward to wedging myself into a RJ.

My current boss would be devastated if I left which is a concern.

Yes, but no one is irreplaceable. Much like the brick, the boss does not (really) love you back. He/she will get over it. I promise.

Indeed; the brick analogy originated in a discussion about employment, wherein being loyal to your company was like being loyal to a brick, and the brick cared not for anyone but itself. If the brick lost need if you, you can rest assured that it would have no problem dispensing of you. Work should be a symbiotic relationship, where the employee gets what he needs from the employer because the employer gets what he needs from the employee. Loyalty doesn't enter into it.

With that said, I've always had strong loyalties to people, especially those that give me a chance, so I find it hard to bail out. But sometimes you really have to focus on what works best for you.

To further complicate it, some prescription sunglasses I ordered at Lens Crafters 2 months ago are finally in and ready to be picked up after much :rolleyes:. So here's my dilemma — the place with the glasses is all the way across Atlanta. If I go pick them up, I don't finish packing today. There's no way I can. If I do, then this stuff has to get packed late Thursday night or early Friday morning.

I'm opting to get the glasses today. Not doing so means having to deal with a stop on Friday morning when we're trying to get out of town, and I've got a car full of stuff and three angry cats.

Yes, I too do become a fiercely loyal employee. But i didn't realize in my youth that the brick didn't love me back. It is still hard for me to detach emotional involvement from employers; I'm just more aware now, that's all.

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I am so frustrated at my employer at the moment. I have "vested" stock, but the employer will not release the vested stock for several days after the vesting date because of their own, self-imposed payroll issues.

F that.

My employer wants me to work late like my butt is on fire to meet one of their ridiculous deadlines? Sure...I'll do that. Just as hard as you worked to get me my money after it was already vested and due to me.

Jerks. :mad::td::mad::td:

If the stock price goes down between the vesting date and the day that the stock is actually released and distributed to me, who should I contact to get reimbursement for the amount that I lost due their rear-end dragging? :mad:

Sometimes when you are the boss, the company does indeed need you.;)

Now that being said, I do hope once I have a full stable of employees under me they do not see me as a brick, that would be :rolleyes: