In Memoriam; a nice Fuck You to Frank.

Today is an important anniversary for me, it's been five years since an old employer (B-Line Technical Services) has laid me off...

...for the second time...

...on the same calendar date.

They laid me off on Dec-15th 2002, then, after asking me to pass up a job opportunity with Minolta, and rehiring me the following April, they laid me off, again, on Dec-15th 2005.

The first time, I didn't see it coming at all. I was completely blind-sided when my local manager called me into his office to basically send me home. I thought it was a bad joke.

The second time, I didn't see it coming at all, I had just gotten a raise about a month earlier, as well as an extra week of vacations, both of which were supposed to become effective, in the new year.

So it's with great joy that today, after five years from the second Christmas surprise, I want to bestow a big, fat, juicy, Fuck You, to Frank, the owner of B-Line, as well as all of his family. Also, thanks for screwing me, and my family, out of the severance package you guys owed me when you laid me off.

I sincerely hope you had Lehman stocks.

Also, I'll allow myself to give a slight bit of advise to two people I deem to be good friends, you know who you are; You're still working there.

RUN!

It's almost hilarious how their website (linked above) has the following statement in bold characters on it's welcome page: "It is mission critical today…survival essential tomorrow."

They also need to hire someone that knows how to perform "effective business writing" because frankly - pardon the pun - their main page sucks monkey balls, I got tired of reading it after getting past the first paragraph.

Dan, Den,

There are things you do for yourselves, and things you do for your friends. The most important things though, are the ones you do for your family.

Think about it.

What happened to Donald Duck?

Donald Duck was always my favorite Disney character, along with Goofy and Mickey Mouse. I grew up reading their adventures in the Italian magazine "Topolino" as well as "I Grandi Classici".

Those comic books are available in Italian from Mondadori (only in Italy) and in French (in Belgium from what I gather).

The French ones are available to be purchased here in Quebec, but they are hard to find and usually a month or two late.

However, Disney hasn't been making original Donald Duck cartoons for a little while. Occasionally he can be glimpsed quickly passing through the Mickey Mouse Clubhouse on the Disney Channel but no feature films, no pre-movie-cartoons, and no DVDs have been released with Donald in there for a while.

Why Disney? Why?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3IfeuQ6Ayos

With classics like the above, it's a serious oversight. I particularly dislike the fact that some of the older classic cartoons have been banned because they were deemed "politically incorrect" or violent, but they've been replaced with Hannah Montana, the Jonas Brothers and other "Tween magnets".