Sabbatical Debacle

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“Due to on-going cost control meaures,” our CEO informed the company on Friday, we have to use 40 hours of accrued vacation this quarter (which is already half over). Wow, and here I thought it was upsetting before our acquisition when our 2 weeks of annual vacation expired at the end of the year. Well, I guess this gives me plenty of interview time.

You know, I don’t have my own multinational, multibillion-dollar company, or even an MBA, but I’d think that if a company wants to control costs, it wouldn’t give its CEO a 1150% raise, especially when it has lost money in each of the last three years, and its shareholders’ total return fell 27% last year. I guess they just expect the rest of us to eat cake.

Update: Part 2

Off to DC?

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According to this site, I need to move to DC. (And yes, this is on everyone’s blog today.)

American Cities That Best Fit Me:
75% Washington, DC
65% Atlanta
60% Austin
55% Las Vegas
55% San Francisco

Incidentally, they also think I’m less hellbound than I would have guessed:

My Deadly Sins
Lust: 40%
Sloth: 40%
Gluttony: 20%
Envy: 0%
Greed: 0%
Pride: 0%
Wrath: 0%
Chance You’ll Go to Hell: 14%
You’ll die from overexertion. *wink*

Retirement nosedive

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Last week, a federal judge approved the termination of the United Airlines pension plans. While that doesn’t completely leave all the current and former employees out in the cold, it does mean that the federal government (i.e. taxpayers) will be assuming the obligations of the airline and paying substantially lower benefits to the employees. Yet another indication of how great it would be to privatize Social Security… What could possibly go wrong?

Da Shizzolator

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Has cnn.com or nytimes.com been reading a bit dry recently? Well den Shizzolate dat shit, yo!

Breaking news from cnn.com:

At least 55 bodies found in Iraq
Discovery includes a dozen fools executed in Baghdad

Fuzz be like two fools survived da shooting ‘n wuz receiving treatment n’ shit. The survivors reportedly told fuzz that fools dressed as members of da Iraqi army arrested ’em, took ’em a remote area ‘n shot ’em n’ shit.

The International Committee of da Red Cross on Monday expressed its concern ’bout da “high numbers of civilian casualties in Iraq n’ shit. ” It noted that scores of Iraqis has died in hooptie bombings in Baghdad ‘n that fighting in western Iraq had forced hundreds, including brizzle, shorties ‘n da elderly, flee they cribs ‘n seek refuge n’ shit.

Will you muta’a me?

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Pleasure marriages: apparently not an oxymoron, nor illegal in Iraq anymore.

Although the libertarian in me has no problem with legalized prostitution, I think my sensibilities are too delicate to engage in it personally. (Or maybe that’s just my ego talking.) Anyway, I appreciate the doublespeak used to make it seem like a healthy and respectable tradition.