{"id":231,"date":"2010-04-09T17:06:16","date_gmt":"2010-04-10T00:06:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/melissaruth.com\/blog\/?p=231"},"modified":"2010-06-24T12:32:41","modified_gmt":"2010-06-24T19:32:41","slug":"jobpocalypse-2010-part-2-electric-boogaloo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/melissaruth.com\/blog\/2010\/04\/jobpocalypse-2010-part-2-electric-boogaloo\/","title":{"rendered":"JOBPOCALYPSE 2010 PART 2: ELECTRIC BOOGALOO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I would like to thank everyone for their comments and support. It&#8217;s been a horrible couple of weeks. Possibly a couple of the worst weeks in my life. (And I had a cancer scare! So&#8230; yeah, this has majorly sucked!) Knowing who is there for me is so important you don&#8217;t even know. (Or, maybe you do!)<\/p>\n<p>I have actually had this entry saved over the last week and I have been making changes to it regarding all the things that have happened, and then my internet broke on Wednesday, so let me tell you, I have been really up and down emotionally.  People at work all were acting ridiculous and awful and you could practically cut the tension in the office with a knife.<\/p>\n<p>However, by today things really looked up; everybody was talking to each other again and the air had been cleared for the most part. Then, since I had to go home to wait for the internet technician to come fix my internet, I was actually in the right headspace and took the initiative on a job opportunity &#8211; I sent my resume to another company in my industry and even followed up with a phone call &#8211; and I ALREADY have a phone interview on Monday! This person I sent my resume to asked my manager about if any support staff would be interested in interviewing, so I decided to suck it up and send an email, and there you go. I mean, I don&#8217;t know how it will go, but at least it will be a step in the right direction to take control back in my life &#8211; and that is enough for me.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe my yelling at the universe on Wednesday (which I think is what broke my internet, hah) actually WORKED. Not that I recommend that, because, hey, God broke my internet as &#8220;a sign&#8221;. Um, yeah, I think I got it, thanks. And I guess I grudgingly appreciate that. I GUESS.<\/p>\n<p>In conclusion, don&#8217;t mess with the powers that be or they will mess with you.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"Lambtown by Pynnski, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/pynnski\/3978985676\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2633\/3978985676_0eb3f51268.jpg\" alt=\"Lambtown\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Someday, when I&#8217;m on my farm in the middle of nowhere (but with working internets and sweet satellite cable and a flock of alpacas like the one above), I will look back on these weeks and laugh. And then probably have to step back from the dark clouds that will surely strike me down with a swift bolt of lightning.<\/p>\n<div id=\"wp_fb_like_button\" style=\"margin:5px 0;float:none;height:30px;\"><script src=\"http:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/all.js#xfbml=1\"><\/script><fb:like href=\"http:\/\/melissaruth.com\/blog\/2010\/04\/jobpocalypse-2010-part-2-electric-boogaloo\/\" send=\"false\" layout=\"standard\" width=\"450\" show_faces=\"false\" font=\"arial\" action=\"like\" colorscheme=\"light\"><\/fb:like><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I would like to thank everyone for their comments and support. It&#8217;s been a horrible couple of weeks. Possibly a couple of the worst weeks in my life. (And I had a cancer scare! So&#8230; yeah, this has majorly sucked!) Knowing who is there for me is so important you don&#8217;t even know. (Or, maybe &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/melissaruth.com\/blog\/2010\/04\/jobpocalypse-2010-part-2-electric-boogaloo\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;JOBPOCALYPSE 2010 PART 2: ELECTRIC BOOGALOO&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,6,196],"tags":[221],"class_list":["post-231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily","category-moaning-and-groaning","category-real-life","tag-workplace"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/melissaruth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/melissaruth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/melissaruth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/melissaruth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/melissaruth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=231"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/melissaruth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":234,"href":"http:\/\/melissaruth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231\/revisions\/234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/melissaruth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/melissaruth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/melissaruth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}