Day 3
-So, You Need My Help?-
I woke up this morning at noon. Finally sleeping the sleep of the unemployed. I noticed a missed call on my cellphone and a voicemail from My Old Boss.
“Hey I could use a little information on something if you could give me a call on my cellphone, thanks”
So you could use my help now? Doesn’t really sound like you were going to pay me for this “information”. To be honest, if my phone hadn’t been in an off position I probably would have woken up immediately and helped him. I mean these guys still owe me money. I need that money. But alas, my cellphone was off. I returned his call immediately and left a message. Then i called him an hour later and he didn’t answer again. When I worked for him, he always answered, or got back to me within 5 minutes. So if i’m getting this kind of treatment when I’m calling to help HIM out with something. I only imagine the response I’ll get when I start calling to ask him where my money is.
-BEING DIRECT-
I contacted my former co-worker and just put it out there.
“Any word On the possibility of hiring me?”
He fed me a line about how he’s still checking, But he just hired a bunch of people and he’ll see if he cut one of them loose and hire me. I told him whatever he could so, and no hard feelings. Then he changed the subject. *ouch*
No hard feelings. Because if the roles were reversed I wouldn’t hire me either. See he’s worked with me at two different companies. And he knows my work ethic and I can never compare to his. Maybe that was okay when it was someone else’s money at stake. But now that it’s his he has to be more careful and I get that. It’s not like I would take advantage of our friendship like that either.
-BURNING BRIDGES-
I’ve also realized I should stop badmouthing Comcast. They seem to be the only game in town for employment. And their support staff is a swell bunch of guys. Offering me help through my blog comments and twitter. I expect them to show up on my Facebook and X-Box Live any day now. Send me your gamertag Doug!
My current problems with Comcast have come to an end, now that my job with the Wi-Fi company is over. So I don’t need your help Mark and Doug. But if I do, I know how to get in touch with you guys quickly.Doug had another amusing shoutout for me on his Twitter feed.
@kortanaskew WOW... appreciate the mention in your Blog :-) We do try and yep I'm for real... we have a full team..
-SO YOU NEED MY HELP Part 2-
So the ex-boss finally called me back. They’re having a problem with the NetGong network monitoring tool. It’s a tool designed to monitor our routers at all of our location. It’s not a magical tool, I had to into it everyday several times a day and update it. But without it, it makes our job near-impossible. I know because we lost the license back in 2008 for it. The bosses were trying to come up with a payment because they only accepted paypal and credit cards. They wanted to pay with a company check, and not use their own credit cards. Because the company owed the bosses money already. But the kicker is the bosses owned the company. Seems like they were dipping their ink in the company well. So I offered to buy it with my paypal as long as I would be reimbursed. They agreed and we’ve been able to use netgong ever since. This was December 2008. The last expense check I received was for June 2008. Long story short, they never paid me for the software license. And now here they were, calling me to repair something they screwed up, when they changed the password to lock me out of the server when they fired me. Even though they never reimbursed me for the program. I was livid. I gave them some bullshit about it having to do with the password change.
But I wasn’t going to help them. Screw that. He said perhaps we can maybe make this your first project. If they give me access to this software I will just uninstall it. End of story.
Then he said the new company might call me in a couple of weeks. So I realized something. The merger is still in transition stage. Their goal at the moment was to solidify their positions in the company. There were three of them taking a paycheck, while i kept the company running. i never got greedy, I never asked for more money. And i was always patient when they told me. But they always took their paycheck first. One of the three is my ex-bosses wife. A nice lady but a complete nincompoop, when it came to technical support, sales, and payment processing. She’s pretty much been responsible for 75% of the outages that are caused at our location. Because she has either forgotten to pay the bill, or mismanaged the budget, and the internet was always being cut off.
When this realization sunk in. I became angry. My new goal now is to recover my pay, and everything owed to me by any means possible. I still won’t sink to sabotage, but I will start consulting labor lawyers.
-GET A HAIRCUT AND GET A REAL JOB-
One of the perks of working from home is the lack of need towards grooming. My beard is in a constant state of shaggyness, I often find myself going to work in my sleep clothes and my hair has gotten very long. Check it out:
So I was going to need a haircut. I called my brother up who I often used to trim the sides of my hair to save barber fees. He was extremely reluctant because any expertise he had was just buzz cuts. But I couldn’t go out and spend money on a barber or a salon. Unemployed people don’t have fancy haircut money. So I convinced him to come over and give it a shot. And if he screwed it up we could always just shave it all off, right?
He was listening to a Top 100 songs of 1994 countdown and this song began to play as the trimming started. Completely appropriate lyrics.
“Oh no, It go, It gone, Bye Bye”
First thing had to go was my ponytail. I hate it, but it was an unnecessary evil to keep my hair in check. i wont be sad to see it go.
“Watch me unravel, I'll soon be naked.”
My then started to experiment with different looks as he cut away,
Then he made a really bad cut where i ended up looking like Lloyd from Dumb and Dumber.
Then I discovered I had a part in my head I couldn’t get rid off.
He wanted to shave it off. But We were able to work it out when i wet my hair. Then he began to style it in all sorts of metrosexual ways.
This one was my favorite cause it reminded me of Daniel Day Lewis in “There Will Be Blood”
“Lying on the floor, Lying on the floor! I've come undone”
I guess in the end it doesn’t look so bad for a free haircut.
I was upset about it at first., But once I showered and combed it and styled it, It looks way better than the above photos. Or so I hope.
-MOTIVATION-
Once my brother and his wife left. He sent me a text saying he left me 100 bucks inside my iPhone case. I was floored. And shocked. I blow through a hundred dollars like it’s nobody’s business. For them it’s a lot harder to come by. I was also angry that my former employers left me in such a situation that he thought he should have to leave me some money. This is my little baby brother. I should be the one looking out for him.
I texted him back that I wasn’t in such dire straits, that I needed his money yet. But I really appreciated the sentiment.
I vowed to myself that I would get a job before I would have a need to use that money.
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