Ducky
"Cleveland! How could a place possess so eerie and evil a name and not be ruled by demons?"
-- Howard the Duck
(Note: quote is fixed now!)
Guess where I'll be spending half my time in July and August. Yes, 31 days between July 1 and August 31, so officially half the days.
The Howard the Duck quote is fixed now that I'm home. The quote is from Giant-Size Man-Thing #4. (Aside: Giant-Size Man-Thing is officially the most wrong-sounding comic title ever.)
(No, I don't have a Giant-Size Man-Thing (no jokes), just the reprint in Marvel Treasury Edition featuring Howard the Duck)
They asked for availability. I marked out the big dates of the summer (Gencon, in particular), most (but not all) of the dates when I have Cubs tickets, and a few other dates, and left a couple extra days of pad around some of those times.
And then, every single day I marked as "available" before the end of August, they assigned me to be in Cleveland.
The scarier part is that the bigger concentration of available days that I marked were in September, and they haven't set the September schedule yet.
Let me just say - eep!
And, the part that makes me lean toward the "pissed off" side -- it looks like only about half the team actually answered the e-mail to give their availability/unavailability. And, if you didn't answer, you weren't assigned. That's just wrong.
I guess this is why they pay me the big bucks.
(Note: quote is fixed now!)
Guess where I'll be spending half my time in July and August. Yes, 31 days between July 1 and August 31, so officially half the days.
The Howard the Duck quote is fixed now that I'm home. The quote is from Giant-Size Man-Thing #4. (Aside: Giant-Size Man-Thing is officially the most wrong-sounding comic title ever.)
(No, I don't have a Giant-Size Man-Thing (no jokes), just the reprint in Marvel Treasury Edition featuring Howard the Duck)
They asked for availability. I marked out the big dates of the summer (Gencon, in particular), most (but not all) of the dates when I have Cubs tickets, and a few other dates, and left a couple extra days of pad around some of those times.
And then, every single day I marked as "available" before the end of August, they assigned me to be in Cleveland.
The scarier part is that the bigger concentration of available days that I marked were in September, and they haven't set the September schedule yet.
Let me just say - eep!
And, the part that makes me lean toward the "pissed off" side -- it looks like only about half the team actually answered the e-mail to give their availability/unavailability. And, if you didn't answer, you weren't assigned. That's just wrong.
I guess this is why they pay me the big bucks.
posted by TT at
6/29/2007 12:49:00 PM
2 Comments:
Get paid to answer emails ... and then go to Cleveland.
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Anonymous, at 6/29/2007 5:54 PM
It definitely is wrong that those who didn't reply to the e-mail were not assigned. Try not responding just once and you would probably be assigned the entire time. Life is good but that doesn't mean it's fair. ET
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Anonymous, at 6/29/2007 7:34 PM
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