G'day Everyone!
Sorry that I've been off for the last few days. I've been in a "war" with a friend who is really low functioning. I didn't realize that she was until I made the mistake of giving her my email address during one of the many relay calls that she did on me. My email account got overwhelmed. I bitched, pleaded, ranted, and said a lot of legal threats. I did that in both email and during one of the many relay call in which I kept telling these operators that I wasn't accepting ANY relay calls if it's from this specific person. Finally, I had some victory in which I took some drastic actions. It's not pretty and I'm not going to say of what I did. But I should say it finally created PEACE in my house. The phone is back to normal and my mom isn't bitching any more (big whew) and my email, after massive dumping into a zip drive to save for evidence, is back to normal. The only regret now is going back to snail mail. Won't be fun, but it's better and low tech of a way to go.
Meanwhile, I realize that a lot of us are job hunting out there. In many places, people are hurting. Companies are still laying off people and shedding jobs. Two major stores, which I've just heard awhile back, Circuit City and Office Depot are closing their stores. It's sad that they're leaving the area. But a store that ceases operations completely is concerning why they're giving up so easy in this economic times.
I was talking to a long time friend of mine, who's about to graduate from Gallaudet University this spring, on my VP. He and I had spoken about becoming roommates since he mentioned that he wanted to stay in the DC area. But then he revealed that during the semester break between fall and spring, his good old daddy used some political influence and got my friend a State Job! I was SHOCKED. I think many of us want a "daddy warbucks" that could wield some political influence into a state government job in order to get their kid a job with the state.
Some of you ask, "what state are you talking about?". Unfortunately, I must protect my friend and refuse to answer that. But I know many of us wish that our parents would have this kind if influence to help us find a job in these trying times.
We're all networking together, attending job fairs, and trying to nail down any employment that we can find out there despite this economic recession going on.
On the wind up note, as Robert Goodwin often wrote in his past posts about scammers on the AOL, here we get another report from my friend, James Byrne: http://jimb1962.blogspot.com/
My dear readers, please beware. Don't store your passwords on any messenger programs on your computer. The less people that store passwords on their computer, the more successful we can defeat these hackers.
Have a nice week! Semper FI!
1 comment:
Sadly that the competition and the economy actually ruined a lot of companies. I remember Hechingers and Lowes Hardware store drove Hechingers out of business. I think Staples drove Office Depot out of business. I don't like to see that happen but it does. Another drug store open up call Walgreens. One is across Rite Aid and another one is across both CVS and Shoppers Food Warehouse pharmacy. Lets just say Walgreens drove one of them out of business.
Not only will that hurt the other business, but it will create empty buildings with empty spaces. Just like it happen with Hechingers. Again, I hate it when that happens. I hope something can be done by President Barack Obama to fix this problem. If not, there will be plenty of Ghost towns to see!
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