a cautionary tale
Dec. 5th, 2005 11:24 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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velcroswench, and this meme has a moral! ;)
Meme instructions:
1. Copy and paste the 5th sentence of your 23rd blog entry.
2. Explain it.
3. Challenge 5 friends to do the same.
My sentence:
"But it's basically meaningless, since the company is in a salary freeze right now."
The "it" refers to the fact that I had reached my 4-year anniversary of working for the company (not the same one I work for now). I was bitter because I wasn't going to get a raise on my anniversary, and it didn't look like I was going to get anything else in recognition of the anniversary either -- not even so much as a card or a "hey, good job, thanks for sticking around." The LJ entry quoted above was basically a big old gripe about how I didn't feel valued or appreciated for having worked at the company all that time (four years is really a pretty long time to work at a software company, especially when you're young and you don't have a computer-science degree and it's basically your first real job out of college).
The reason this is a cautionary tale is that I ended up getting fired from that job, a few months after writing the above post. A large part of the reason I got fired was that my boss found my livejournal and read the above-mentioned entry, as well as numerous other posts in which I griped about the company and the job and the management (although I don't think I ever actually bitched about him specifically). After the fact, I went back and friend-locked a bunch of the relevant posts, a locking the barn door after the horses are gone sort of thing. And this is why now pretty much all of my work-related posts are friend-locked.
I'm not going to tag anyone else for this meme, 'cause I hate that, so if you feel like doing it, do it, and if not, don't. :)
velcroswench, and this meme has a moral! ;)Meme instructions:
1. Copy and paste the 5th sentence of your 23rd blog entry.
2. Explain it.
3. Challenge 5 friends to do the same.
My sentence:
"But it's basically meaningless, since the company is in a salary freeze right now."
The "it" refers to the fact that I had reached my 4-year anniversary of working for the company (not the same one I work for now). I was bitter because I wasn't going to get a raise on my anniversary, and it didn't look like I was going to get anything else in recognition of the anniversary either -- not even so much as a card or a "hey, good job, thanks for sticking around." The LJ entry quoted above was basically a big old gripe about how I didn't feel valued or appreciated for having worked at the company all that time (four years is really a pretty long time to work at a software company, especially when you're young and you don't have a computer-science degree and it's basically your first real job out of college).
The reason this is a cautionary tale is that I ended up getting fired from that job, a few months after writing the above post. A large part of the reason I got fired was that my boss found my livejournal and read the above-mentioned entry, as well as numerous other posts in which I griped about the company and the job and the management (although I don't think I ever actually bitched about him specifically). After the fact, I went back and friend-locked a bunch of the relevant posts, a locking the barn door after the horses are gone sort of thing. And this is why now pretty much all of my work-related posts are friend-locked.
I'm not going to tag anyone else for this meme, 'cause I hate that, so if you feel like doing it, do it, and if not, don't. :)
