As a denizen of the gulf coast, I sympathize with you. There’s a reason a hundred years ago only fishing shacks were put up on our sand bars “barrier islands.”
Although in this neck of the woods, it’s the fine inhabitants of those (publicly insured) multi-million dollar sandcastles voting TGOP. 
Explaining for the sixth time to the three year old why granpapa won’t be at his memorial service tomorrow.
I kicked my toe rather badly. Looks like the toe nail will have to be removed.
My government, the most powerful military force on the planet, has been infiltrated by Russians, apparently, and Reagan is rolling in his grave…
AND, my POTUS wants MOAR NUKES!
Fuck today squared.
It looks like Carlisle United will not be getting promoted this season unless they start winning matches again.
12 points in 12 games just isn’t good enough for anything other than finishing in the bottom two, never mind the team who are currently third.
Hey mate, the thread is ‘Fuck Today’, not ‘Fuck Every Day’.
I feel like this phrase has an entirely different meaning.
It all depends on inflection and emphasis.
I agree: A visible inflection is a big turn-off.
…wait.
Hungary will build container camps for asylum seekers
When Germany opened the borders in 2015 it was not based on an ethical decision, everything was prepared for a massive police and military enforced shut down. Merkel in the end vetoed this because she wanted to avoid bad press.
I don’t like the sound of these 'ere Boncentration Bamps.
Only posting here 'cos I’ve got nowhere else to do it.
My Tourettes’ move around a bit. Sometimes it’s physical (hooray for self-inflicted bruising), sometimes it’s verbal (been increasing ly stuttery lately, whch is ever ao much fun for someone who’s based a lot of his identity around verbal fluency) [1].
Most recently, my right ankle has stopped working properly. My foot doesn’t lift when it should; if I try to walk barefoot, I just grind my toes into the ground. I can’t hike, I can’t run. I just put myself face-first into a wall.
This sucks.
[1] I just had to correct a dozen Tourette’s-induced typos. Ths is why all of my posts are edited.
Old news, but I only saw it for the first time today. Tony Hopper, Carlisle United player from 1992 to 2002, has been diagnosed with bulbar-onset motor neurone disease.
He was playing for a Carlisle United legends team only six months ago
Here he is scoring a rare goal back in 1999
and now I’m very depressed 
Lost my job of nearly 6 years today. Completely unexpected. Spotless record.
Yay for a small severance package once I sign the agreement. Not yay for getting shafted by a non-profit I consistently gave 110% to, despite a few prior events that (in retrospect) should have been warnings to me that no one is truly safe there.
Yay for finally being out from under an evangelical leaden cloud of emotional and intellectual self-conflictedness (no more ignoring the anti-LGBT, anti anyone-who isn’t white and exactly like us, etc…). Not yay for being gaslighted during the “surprise, you’re being let go” meeting.
I could go on, and might later on, but but for now at least I’ve got a reasonably-employable skillset (a little niche, but not a dead professional segment by any means) and an unexpected opportunity to pursue new options where I might finally be at least a little more at peace with myself.
That’s how I’m choosing to look at it anyway. Tomorrow is another day.
Edited to correct autocorrect (“skillset” not “skillet”). WTH, Google, WTH?!?
I hope that this is one of those situations that you can look back on later and say “it started out bad, but turned out to be a really good thing.” Be well!
I hope so too. Thank you, truly.
This stuck out for me. Are they getting rid of you so as to be philosophically more pure?
Obviously, I’m thinking back in history to other times when this sort of thing has been one of the canaries in the coal mine.
I have yet to see one non-broken piece of software developed by the KBV*.
not even filing bugs is fun - at most two answers by them are enough to win a bullshit bingo round.
* one of the three important stakeholders in the German public healthcare system on the self-governing level
I don’t believe so, as they don’t know my real opinions on the social and political stuff. Maybe three people out of the 300+ people there know that I didn’t have any positive thoughts to send toward drumpf during the campaign, and as I’m generally quiet and withdrawn when given the option, I was able to avoid discussions surrounding equality and such. The only thing I ever did in that regard was to wear a safety pin on my security badge lanyard, and I doubt anyone ever noticed it (most of the time my badge was in my pocket).
So no, as far as I can tell, it wasn’t a purge. Had it been one, there likely would have been some questioning.
As best as I can tell it was a combination of willful ignorance (don’t take the time to ask me what all goes into what I do, just assume that because I make it look easy then it must be so), petty office politics (I didn’t play their games or stoop to certain levels, I was there to do difficult work in a committed fashion and maybe they felt that made them look bad?), and a bit of jealousy. The jealousy part takes a bit to unpack… I and the department I managed were merged into a different group as part of a high-level power play a while back after my C-level boss retired… that vacuum was seized upon and we got absorbed into a group that was mostly at a lower pay scale, and while that VP wanted our group as a feather in the cap, I think he somehow felt as if his superiority was being threatened because of our general earnings level. I think he also realized that because of our similar personalities I could see right through his crap, and I assume that was probably threatening too. Just my hypothesis.
The one thing I did do which probably put me on the radar was to take a firm stand on the matter of pay inequality regarding one of the people I supervised vs the rest of the folks under my supervision. She (of course, welcome to evangelicalville) was being under-compensated by 30% plus vs the average of the others, and nearly 50% less that the highest earner (male) who had nearly identical seniority and career path progression as she did, but who had two more testicles and one less uterus than she did. My struggle with getting that addressed was a drawn-out process, but she ended up getting a raise of about half of the difference between herself and anyone else, with the “promise” of an additional adjustment the following year. Of course, a rarely-enforced technicality from the handbook (one of those ambiguously worded ones that can be easily weaponized) was brought forward shortly thereafter and she was given her papers. She chose to take a severance payment and not to fight the decision (which was handled in such a way that a lawsuit wouldn’t have had much hope, despite how easy it was for anyone paying attention to see why she had been targeted) and I respected her decision. I think that was probably what put me on the radar, but they couldn’t afford to immediately stick it to me without assuming too much risk. Almost exactly a year later though, and their butts are covered and my position can be deemed “redundant” (they’ll likely be surprised once they finally figure out what all I had been doing for them, I think I was sorely underestimated in that regard).
That was probably longer than you probably wanted to read, but further proof that “ministries” aren’t immune from being wolves in sheep’s clothing when it suits their purposes.
Good riddance to bad rubbish, as it were.
Edited for: punctuation/spelling errors
Thanks for explaining further.
Seems like you’re trying to be as fair and objective as possible, but to me it sounds a lot like they got rid of the ethical ‘troublemaker’. I’m sorry for that, and hope that your next job is with a company that is more ethical and appreciates your skill set.
