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So, I’ve basically been off-line since last Thursday (April 4) — did I miss anything?

(Still not back active until Tuesday or Wednesday but trying to cut it into bite-sized chunks I can digest while waiting on flights).
 
OldPhiKap said:
So, I’ve basically been off-line since last Thursday (April 4) — did I miss anything?

(Still not back active until Tuesday or Wednesday but trying to cut it into bite-sized chunks I can digest while waiting on flights).
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Oh same old same old. This doesn’t explain the addition rope though 😀
 
Rich said:
After 24 years with the same company, my position was unceremoniously eliminated this week with 2 weeks to transition and leave. The company is going through 20% headcount reductions and I was just too expensive to keep. Admittedly my long tenure has afforded me a good severance package so I should be grateful for that. I always said I would like to retire from this global pharma company if they would let me because my compensation was fair and I genuinely believed we were making a difference in the world notwithstanding all the negativity about the industry. That won't happen.

I am 58, too young to retire but hopefully not too old to be hired. I'm having a really hard time, have no idea which direction to go, and feel like the father in White Lotus. So much pressure with adult kids who still rely on me financially for healthcare and stuff and an ex-wife (we are amicable) who relies on my alimony for her mortgage and other things. And then there's the economy...

I'm scared and anxious and just not in a good place emotionally.
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So sorry man. Reach out to chat any time.
 
Rich said:
After 24 years with the same company, my position was unceremoniously eliminated this week with 2 weeks to transition and leave. The company is going through 20% headcount reductions and I was just too expensive to keep. Admittedly my long tenure has afforded me a good severance package so I should be grateful for that. I always said I would like to retire from this global pharma company if they would let me because my compensation was fair and I genuinely believed we were making a difference in the world notwithstanding all the negativity about the industry. That won't happen.

I am 58, too young to retire but hopefully not too old to be hired. I'm having a really hard time, have no idea which direction to go, and feel like the father in White Lotus. So much pressure with adult kids who still rely on me financially for healthcare and stuff and an ex-wife (we are amicable) who relies on my alimony for her mortgage and other things. And then there's the economy...

I'm scared and anxious and just not in a good place emotionally.
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Sorry to hear, my friend. Stay centered.
 
Rich said:
After 24 years with the same company, my position was unceremoniously eliminated this week with 2 weeks to transition and leave. The company is going through 20% headcount reductions and I was just too expensive to keep. Admittedly my long tenure has afforded me a good severance package so I should be grateful for that. I always said I would like to retire from this global pharma company if they would let me because my compensation was fair and I genuinely believed we were making a difference in the world notwithstanding all the negativity about the industry. That won't happen.

I am 58, too young to retire but hopefully not too old to be hired. I'm having a really hard time, have no idea which direction to go, and feel like the father in White Lotus. So much pressure with adult kids who still rely on me financially for healthcare and stuff and an ex-wife (we are amicable) who relies on my alimony for her mortgage and other things. And then there's the economy...

I'm scared and anxious and just not in a good place emotionally.
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Sorry Rich. That’s a lot. Wishing you the best.
 
Rich said:
After 24 years with the same company, my position was unceremoniously eliminated this week with 2 weeks to transition and leave. The company is going through 20% headcount reductions and I was just too expensive to keep. Admittedly my long tenure has afforded me a good severance package so I should be grateful for that. I always said I would like to retire from this global pharma company if they would let me because my compensation was fair and I genuinely believed we were making a difference in the world notwithstanding all the negativity about the industry. That won't happen.

I am 58, too young to retire but hopefully not too old to be hired. I'm having a really hard time, have no idea which direction to go, and feel like the father in White Lotus. So much pressure with adult kids who still rely on me financially for healthcare and stuff and an ex-wife (we are amicable) who relies on my alimony for her mortgage and other things. And then there's the economy...

I'm scared and anxious and just not in a good place emotionally.
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Sorry to hear this, Rich.
 
YmoBeThere said:
You can tell who is cheating on watering restrictions as you walk through neighborhoods.
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Lawn craziness can strike anywhere (not at my house). We visit friends in a town in Florida during the winter, (the town borders the Intracoastal waterway) and there has been a running sign battle for years. Probably 25% of the homes have modest yards, often with stones and hardy little plants as opposed to grass, and sport signs that say Save The Waterway (or Lagoons)...another 25% have phosphorescent green lawns with Chem Lawn signs...the Chem Lawn properties would look about the same if they installed Astroturf and it wouldn't require mowing.
Interesting area...the other characteristic I note is that most of the homes are very nice updated houses from the 1950s or 1960s, but they tend to be small (one story, no basements of course)...as such at least half the homes have converted their garages into Man Caves, barcoloungers, large TVs, probably helps a lot of marriages. "Go sit in the garage, Herb!"
 
Evidently one of those new (for us anyway) little USPS mail delivery trucks lost its brakes at the end of our road and ended up in a deep culvert filled with rip rap (y'all use that term?)...must've got torn up but good on the bottom side, by the look of things the extrication was ugly.
 
budwom said:
Evidently one of those new (for us anyway) little USPS mail delivery trucks lost its brakes at the end of our road and ended up in a deep culvert filled with rip rap (y'all use that term?)...must've got torn up but good on the bottom side, by the look of things the extrication was ugly.
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I did look up rip rap.
 
Kdogg said:
They should open up a bounty program.
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One of the characters that lives in my head rent free is Gwen Finnigan Bounty Librarian. She hunts down people with overdue library books. I have not yet figured out how to write her story, but it's possible that she shows up at the North Pole on December 26th to confront Santa as he's relaxing with a good book. I don't know where to go from there yet. Don't steal my proto story idea. And if you find you do have to steal my proto story idea, at least name the character something else. Gwen Finnigan is mine.
 
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