Comments on: World Upside Down

By: Gerbil

Gerbil — Sat, 05 Apr 2008 12:35:24 +0000

The first rule of fight club is don’t talk about fight club.

You can blog about work IF you mention no names, none, no identifying information. After that… open season on stupidity. Hey! And now? Now you can blog about that particular pompous ass to your heart’s delight.

By: Katie

Katie — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 19:21:10 +0000

I still can’t believe the awfulness you went through last year. I (stupidly?) blog about work occassionally but don’t have the balls to drop the company name.
I really do believe things happen for a reason. It sounds like you are way better off.

By: Cindy from Cincinnati

Cindy from Cincinnati — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 13:49:23 +0000

I linked to you from Jennsylvania and I read what you wrote about it being one year since the pain of losing your job. I too lost a job, but I am celebrating my 5 year anniversary of being fired from that ASSHAT company. All I can say is that the bitterness goes away with time. I used to imagine my ex-boss’s face during punching routines at Jazzercise, but now I don’t. I realize that my current situation is so much more healthy (and financially lucrative) and how blessed I am at my new job, with a kind and generous boss I don’t fear. I still get a little anxious when he comes to me or calls me, but I’ve never had any negatives with him and I need to get over that completely. (There, I said it.)

By: Jozet at Halushki

Jozet at Halushki — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 04:13:02 +0000

“But I can turn Asshat CEO into an awful, awful character in my book. And that’s just as rewarding.”

That’s the spirit!

And just anagram his name for the character’s name. He’ll never figure it out until his Kindergartner tells him.

I do write about work, but only about the idiot customers. Not that all of them are idiots, but please…ten times a day I get “I’m looking for that book with the blue cover, you know the one.” How is that not also asking for it?

My thought? Novel nothing: this is a screenplay.

By: moo

moo — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 02:14:09 +0000

As we talked about yesterday … Dooce doesn’t have all the answers.

I know exactly how you feel about fear and getting bitten in the ass and not wanting to revisit the source of the pain, but not being able to let it go, either.

Time helps. Lots of time.

By: Scarlet

Scarlet — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 01:13:58 +0000

Reading Dooce would be a mistake. Blech!

I agree with the others, it does feel like longer! Glad you’re done with that stupid company with its stupid name!

By: kdiddy

kdiddy — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 01:02:50 +0000

I’m constantly worried about getting shit for having a blog, but I try to assuage myself with the fact that I work at a pretty liberal place (university) and my co-workers don’t really know what blogs are…plus I don’t really badmouth the place at all, even when I really want to.

Since I work with students I’m also always worried that I’m going to scandalize them. I know some of them read my blog. Then I think shit like, “Should I take the ‘fucks’ out?” But that’s stupid.

So yeah…what was the question?

By: Ree

Ree — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 00:46:38 +0000

Thanks for the Beyonce earworm. Just thanks.

By: Hank

Hank — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 20:03:14 +0000

Does one say “happy anniversary” to something like this? Hmmm, where’s the blog version of Emily Post when you need it?

By: nancypearlwannabe

nancypearlwannabe — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 19:27:19 +0000

The number one rule of Blog Club: DON’T WRITE ABOUT BLOG CLUB.

Heh.