{"id":677,"date":"2003-05-01T00:34:21","date_gmt":"2003-05-01T03:34:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ericbrooks.com\/whuzzup\/?p=677"},"modified":"2011-06-04T11:01:06","modified_gmt":"2011-06-04T16:01:06","slug":"you-cant-quit-youre-fired","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ericbrooks.com\/whuzzup\/you-cant-quit-youre-fired\/","title":{"rendered":"You can&#8217;t quit&#8230; you&#8217;re fired!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was brought to mind a funny little story about me a few years back.<\/p>\n<p>I worked for a bank in Manhattan. Part of my job was hopping across town on a train and picking up a suitcase full of cancelled checks. To make a long story short I found myself once getting off the train&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230; and forgetting to take the suitcase with me. Half a million dollars worth of returned checks on its way to the Bronx. Buh-bye.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nWell, in my 19 year old mind, I pretty much reason that I&#8217;m screwed, right? If I go back to work, there will be a closed-door-mother-of-all-reamings in it it for me. The &#8220;how can you be so irresponsible?&#8221;s, yadda, yadda, yadda&#8230;. whatever.<\/p>\n<p>So, I quit. Right then and there on the train station.<\/p>\n<p>My next visit was to my friend, who worked at the employment agency that got me the job. I let him know all hell was about to break loose&#8230; his boss should be getting a call FROM my (unknowingly-ex) boss any minute now.<\/p>\n<p>He packed his desk up, and we hauled ass back home to Brooklyn.<\/p>\n<p>Three days later my cousin drops by to let me know my (unknowingly-ex) job called, as there&#8217;s talk of pressing charges, first thinking something happened to me, and then coming to the conclusion I stole a suitcase full of useless paper.<\/p>\n<p>Time to face the music, I suppose. While trembling in fear on the phone with my (unknowingly-ex) supervisor&#8230; I have to admit the old bat was calmer than I thought when I explained what happened.<\/p>\n<p>She then informed me that she&#8217;s left with no choice but to fire me. (???)<\/p>\n<p>Silly me, I thought I quit.<br \/>\nBut hey, you know me. I&#8217;m not gonna argue. I find a silver lining in everything. I brought their letter of termination to unemployment and had a great care-free summer without worrying about finding another job for at least six months.<\/p>\n<hr size=\"1\" noshade=\"noshade\" \/>\n<p>Of course, if I allowed some of you dumbasses the priviledge to comment on this, you&#8217;d tell me stupid shit like &#8220;here&#8217;s what I would have done if I were you&#8230;&#8221;, right?<\/p>\n<p>Well, nanny-nanny poo-poo on you:<br \/>\n1) There&#8217;s no more comments.<br \/>\n2) You&#8217;re not me, are you?<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve pretty much had enough of your &#8220;perfection&#8221;, your self-righteousness, your judgement&#8230; and most of all, your 20\/20 hindsight, blogland. Especially in light of recent events where people can take a post on a forum&#8230; (you know, the one where I quit playing a certain game, said some stupid remark in a moment of anger, and the guy posted in his forum that he threw me out for being a &#8220;racist&#8221;? A charge so ridiculous that even the trolls had to concede that and downgraded me to merely a &#8220;bigot&#8221; in their attacks. Ring any bells?)<\/p>\n<p>Most of the people that come here are pretty intelligent, but for the handful of retards that cover up their flaws with self-righteousness&#8230; do you see where I&#8217;m going with this?<\/p>\n<p>Probably not. So why beat the dead horse?<\/p>\n<p>Simply put&#8230; to the two people who have posted their two cents on the matter, ignored the obvious (like taking the word of an asshole that you don&#8217;t know FROM adam, on a post in a forum full of lies that shouldn&#8217;t have been posted to begin with&#8230; since I QUIT, and was not thrown out.), and hides behind their credentials as &#8220;experts&#8221; on the matter:<\/p>\n<p>Well, I tried to be good-natured and humorous about it. I&#8217;m, quite frankly, tired of being the &#8220;bigger person&#8221;&#8230; as you have CLEARLY shown (or neglected to mention your posts) that apologies, taking responsibility for your actions&#8230; really add up to jack shit in the wild and wonderful world of blogs. It&#8217;s a sign of weakness. Something to justify pointing your high-powered hypocritical fingers at.<\/p>\n<p>You&#8217;re not ready for someone who is upfront and candid with his thoughts. Admit it. You obviously know everything, don&#8217;t you? You want to hurt, generalize, judge, and hang a label on everything. Hey, I do it too. We all have our moments of hypocrisy sometimes.<\/p>\n<p>It brings to mind another shining moment in blogland that I&#8217;ve never quite got over. One where my very &#8220;friends&#8221; (whom I had just stood up for not long before that) decided to take the word of a madwoman&#8230; and suddenly any good I did was erased, and these &#8220;friends&#8221; suddenly decided I had no redeemable qualities whatsoever, as I was trashed everywhere I turned.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t recall any loud &amp; public apologies FROM anyone on that either. Just more names and scars that I guess I need to shut up and &#8220;handle.&#8221; You have the right to your opinions, and I have the right not to forgive you for them.<\/p>\n<p>You weren&#8217;t there. You&#8217;re not me. And (apparently) you don&#8217;t know me very well&#8230; but hey why should that stop you and your episodes of brilliance on your blogs?<\/p>\n<p>I also have the choice NOT to see your self-righteous, not-knowing-the whole-story, finger-pointing crap anymore.<\/p>\n<hr size=\"1\" noshade=\"noshade\" \/>\n<p>&#8220;WHUZZUP!&#8221; started on my rinky-dink XOOM site in April, 1998. There were no blogs back then&#8230; it&#8217;s sole purpose was to inform visitors &#8220;What&#8217;s up on the site&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s time to get back to that, and step away FROM all the &#8220;perfect&#8221; people.<br \/>\nThe intelligent people understand what I&#8217;m saying&#8230;. And I hope you stick around. But I can&#8217;t keep taking beatings for everyone&#8217;s amusement. I really do have better things to do.<\/p>\n<p>Consider this your &#8220;divorce papers&#8221;, blogland. Take down your links to this site, please.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s not you. It&#8217;s me.<\/p>\n<p>No. Not really&#8230; it was definitely you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was brought to mind a funny little story about me a few years back.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,24,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-677","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-attention-trolls","category-brawl-of-the-week","category-e-show"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>You can&#039;t quit... you&#039;re fired! - WHUZZUP!<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/ericbrooks.com\/whuzzup\/you-cant-quit-youre-fired\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"You can&#039;t quit... you&#039;re fired! 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