Merovigan

This was the song that greeted me the first time I played GTA 4 and seriously, I had to just not play the game for a while and listen. I LOVE this song. I just found the video, figured I'd post it here in case I wanna find it again.

And maybe yall might like it too :-p

I started my work life as a dog walker.

I became a strawboss.

I became a programmer.

I became a Help Desk tech.

I became a Systems Administrator.

I became a Project Manager.

I'll become...?

I'm dawdling on my PMP certification. I don't know why. I've done the studying. I've taken the "Boot camp" and I can probably pass the test the first try, if not the second.

But I already know I...

It's review time - that time of year that employees dislike and middle managers FUCKING HATE.

So, I've only got about twenty to do and, of course, only about 50% of my staff bothered to do self-evaluations. Of them, at least 3 have turned in self evaluations which are WHITE hot - every place they could rank themselves (including the places that only apply to managers, which they aren't) was the highest rating.

But two, so far, were actually not too far off from what I...

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/08/bu...0wHdXAkmU6ffBQ

It just seems like this recession is affecting everyone. Including the people it isn't.

"BE AFRAID!" has replaced "Land of the free, home of the brave."

I wonder what the people in the auto industry are doing right now. If it were me, I'd have my resume updated, any certifications I wanted/needed done, and I'd be begging Nissan/Toyota/Honda for a job, on the cheap. I figure this is the time for the Foreign Three to beef up their management structures with experienced staff from the Big Three.

But that's just me. I prepare. I fear, and then I react on that fear. I'm always worried about being fired and running "What if scenarios"...