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Post by hondobrode on Jul 3, 2014 1:19:35 GMT -5
At least this way you can (maybe?) collect unemployment checks while you're under the knife. Better than unpaid leave in some ways? Applying tomorrow for unemployment.
Also looking into disability laws, calling my student loan people, and Toyota.
Oh yeah, and re-negotiating with Cox about our cable/internet/phone bundle.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 3, 2014 1:25:48 GMT -5
Oh, I didn't even get to the part about where my termination happened on Valentine's Day, & the person given my job was my gf. At a certain point, at least a few years later, all one can do is look back & laugh, albeit possibly with something less than delight.
But yeah ... you're right. Probably half the people here can share some sort of comparable work-related experience. I guess it's just a part of reality, especially in our proudly nonsocialist workers' nonparadise.
But again, while I could be hit by a truck tomorrow (as could we all), I'm better off now than I was then, even if it took several years for that to prove to be the case. I'm hoping devoutly that you'll be able to say the same, minus the "several years" part.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 3, 2014 1:29:54 GMT -5
[ I don't think that enough of us who live in socialist countries truly appreciate how lucky we are. It would be illegal here to fire someone for medical reasons, and when someone has it so bad that they can't work anymore the state pays for a mdeical leave ( and for the medical expenses, naturally). Somehow we now take it for granted but stories like yours remind me that we really shouldn't. Why do you hate freedom?
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Post by hondobrode on Jul 3, 2014 1:31:10 GMT -5
I land on my feet pretty well. It's just so frustrating at how employees get pushed around.
The veterinary industry is so cool, and I love the heck out of animals, and I want to stay in it.
BTW, FWIW, my wife Susan is so cool with everything. God, I'd lose my mind if she was all freaking out. That's a huge help.
Oh well, getting caught up on some reading in between now and whenever.
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Post by hondobrode on Jul 3, 2014 1:33:10 GMT -5
For my fellow Dr. Strange fans and any Lego fans we might have on the forum-one of the submitted ideas on the Lego site is for a Sanctum Sanctorum playset. It needs a lot of support before they review the viability of this set..but you can see more here with the the Bleeding Cool article and on the proposal page on the Lego site. -M My oldest daughter is getting married next year. Don't have any grand kids yet, but when I do, I'm definitely getting em some Lego's. So awesome ! We had rocks and didn't know any better, and we liked em !
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Post by Deleted on Jul 3, 2014 1:35:05 GMT -5
The fanciest toys I had, I think, were Tinker Toys & Lincoln Logs. Which were pretty cool, I guess, but I couldn't have built a decent Doctor Strange with them to save my life.
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Post by hondobrode on Jul 3, 2014 1:43:18 GMT -5
Actually, the best we had were the Mego action figures, Micronauts and Rom. Star Wars and G. I. Joe were pretty cool too.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 3, 2014 2:03:44 GMT -5
I had the metal Voltron. Metal, like a foot tall, and came apart to make even more toys. Mine came from a thrift store, so it didn't have weapons. I didn't know it was even supposed to have weapons until looking it up on Youtube right now.
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Post by the4thpip on Jul 3, 2014 6:32:03 GMT -5
You had the pacifist Voltron.
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Post by Cei-U! on Jul 3, 2014 7:44:19 GMT -5
Like Dan B, the most elaborate toys I had as a kid were Lincoln Logs, an Erector set and a Kenner bridge-and-girder set. Legos existed but were strictly the little red bricks. Toy snobs that we were, we made fun of any kid stuck with Legos. Had they existed in the infinite variety they do now, those same kids would've been extremely popular!
Cei-U! I summon the good old days!
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Post by Deleted on Jul 3, 2014 8:11:33 GMT -5
Like Dan B, the most elaborate toys I had as a kid were Lincoln Logs, an Erector set and a Kenner bridge-and-girder set. Legos existed but were strictly the little red bricks. Toy snobs that we were, we made fun of any kid stuck with Legos. Had they existed in the infinite variety they do now, those same kids would've been extremely popular! Cei-U! I summon the good old days! TMI, sir. But seriously, folks, I really, really wanted one of those. A Lite Brite would've been cool, too. Above all, though, I'd have loved to have had a Creepy Crawlies set-up, as well as the equivalents.
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Post by hondobrode on Jul 3, 2014 8:13:02 GMT -5
Lite Brites were fun.
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Post by DubipR on Jul 3, 2014 9:04:45 GMT -5
Growing up, we had the small GI Joe figures, Kenner Star Wars figures, D&D action figures, Laser Tag, Micronauts, Shrinky Dinks, Monster Maker. We had cap guns, which pissed off a majority of the parents on the block as my brother and I were the first to get those.
Plaid Stallions is a perfect site for some of my childhood, but I was more of an 80s kid.
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Post by Cei-U! on Jul 3, 2014 9:09:33 GMT -5
Like Dan B, the most elaborate toys I had as a kid were Lincoln Logs, an Erector set and a Kenner bridge-and-girder set. Legos existed but were strictly the little red bricks. Toy snobs that we were, we made fun of any kid stuck with Legos. Had they existed in the infinite variety they do now, those same kids would've been extremely popular! Cei-U! I summon the good old days! TMI, sir. But seriously, folks, I really, really wanted one of those. A Lite Brite would've been cool, too. Above all, though, I'd have loved to have had a Creepy Crawlies set-up, as well as the equivalents. You know, I debated mentioning the Erector set because I knew you'd go there. I had a Creepy Crawler set. My dad would have me make fishing lures for him. Considering I used my mouth to play with it, it's a minor miracle I neither fried my face off nor burned the house down. I never had a Lite Brite (its pieces were too small and my mother feared I'd choke on them) but I did have the more low-tech Spirograph. I spent hours on end playing with it. My favorite "toys," though, were a ballpoint pen and a stack of blank paper, which inevitably to another issue's worth of adventures of that stalwart hero, Superspider. Cei-U! I summon the arachnid avenger!
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Post by Deleted on Jul 3, 2014 9:26:30 GMT -5
Never had a Spirograph, either, but did have a small knockoff (two wheels, as I recall, or whatever you call them) that came in a box of cereal.
I have vague memories of a friend who had a Creepy Crawler-type set that made, instead of bugs, bits of horror makeup, like scars or long fingernails or whatever. Or perhaps I'm completely imagining things.
I also remember ads (whether in comics or on TV or both, I'm not sure) for something that supposedly made little dinosaurs out of what looked like a block of plastic. Or something. Again, this could all be fantasy on my part.
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