Psychotomy

saturday I consulted for my old company to help the new guy figure out what madness I had been doing.  took ~3hrs, give or take a bit.  and it was almost all stuff he could have gotten if he’d looked hard enough and spent the time (except the database root passwords I’d forgotten to write down).  actually, a good deal of I’d documented before and no one had given a damn so the docs had kinda slipped by the wayside.

got an email yesterday from said company, unrelated.  we had won the people’s voice webby and my ‘boss’ had ordered copies of the award statues for everyone on the team.  first he asked, and like ZERO people were interested in paying for an ugly assed statue.  then apparently he went and ordered them all anyway and used project funds.  for an award no one cared about having.  they came in after i left, but they’re engraved so it’s personalized.  now they want me to come in to get it, or give them my address (hello?  you should be sending me my W-2′s!  try that address, yadig?) and they want my phone # “because we’ll probably have to send it UPS or something” … b/c, you know, UPS usually calls before dropping things off.  wtf?

worse, I don’t even WANT the damned thing.  I told them that before, but they’d already been ordered.  that’s how I found out they were engraved, b/c I tried to donate mine to the company to display in their awards case.  so now I have to give them more contact info (i’m good with you emailing me, thanks; I’m much better at saying “no, go away!” in email than in person/on the phone) or I have to go in and pick it up.  then I have to figure out how I want to dispose of it, b/c I [b]don’t want it[/b]  It’s a foot tall crappy looking spring-like thing made of aluminium or something.  but with a heavy base.  so it’s ugly, heavy, and useless.  also known as “clutter” which we’re trying to get rid of.  oi.

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