i has another sad

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I am finding the training to be very easy this time, and the guy to be very nice if a little sad. He's a lot older than I am, and he basically worked for the same guy for 27 years, through many companies. They laid him off, and for his 27 years of service? Got two weeks of severance. Two weeks.

The vileness of corporate America STILL surprises me. For all my faux-cynicism, I am seriously a pollyanna sunshine dewey optimist. People do the right thing because it's right, right? Yeah, not so much. I am now carrying around the burden of this guy's mistreatment. And he wasn't even complaining, really. I mean, he was, but it was in natural conversation. It wasn't like it was this huge burden he was blurting out. Fucking awful.

I need to find a job where I work for myself, where I can limit my exposure to the evil.

So for now, I drown myself in fiction.

Since Jan 1, 2011:

1. Gone Tomorrow, Lee Child (13th Jack Reacher book)
2. 61 Hours, Lee Child (14th Jack Reacher book)
3. Worth Dying For, Lee Child (15th Jack Reacher book)
4. The Monkey's Raincoat, Robert Crais (1st Elvis Cole book)
5. Stalking the Angel, Crais (2nd Elvis Cole book)
6. Lullaby Town, Robert Crais (3rd Elvis Cole book)
7. Free Fall, Robert Crais (4th Elvis Cole book)
8. Voodoo River, Robert Crais (5th Elvis Cole book)
9. Sunset Express, Robert Crais (6th Elvis Cole book)
10. Indigo Slam, Robert Crais (7th Elvis Cole book)
11. L.A. Requiem, Robert Crais (8th Elvis Cole book)
12. The Last Detective, Robert Crais (9th Elvis Cole book)
13. The Forgotten Man, Robert Crais (10th Elvis Cole book)
14. The Watchman, Robert Crais (1st Joe Pike book)
15. Chasing Darkness, Robert Crais (11th Elvis Cole book)
16. The First Rule, Robert Crais (2nd Joe Pike book)
17. The Sentry, Robert Crais (3rd Joe Pike book)
18. New York Death, Stuart Woods (1st Stone Barrington book)
19. The Troubled Man, Henning Mankell (last Wallander book)
20. Several TOR shorts: Overtime, by Charles Stross; Black Swan, Bruce Sterling; Firstborn, Brandon Sanderson; In the House of the Worm, George RR Martin; and First Flight, Mary Robinette Kowal.
21: Serial, a novella by Jack Kilborn and Blake Crouch.
22. The Quickie, James Patterson Incorporated and some guy
23. Dexter Is Delicious, Jeff Lindsay (5th Dexter book)
24. Every Dead Thing, John Connolly (1st Charlie Parker book)
25. Dark Hollow, John Connolly (2nd Charlie Parker book)
26. The Killing Kind, John Connolly (3rd Charlie Parker book)

Apparently if it bleeds, I reads. Not much SF or really anything other than murders, this year. Everything I've read that hasn't been moidah, I've abandoned. I am going to the beach in a couple days, maybe I can choose something less...bloody to read. Probably not.

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[p-j-cleary.livejournal.com]

I am at the point where, after 12+ years working in the most corporate of corporate environments (why did I go to work for yet another consulting firm?), I'm ready to give up the whole idea of being in a "business" business.

Unfortunately, I'm paid well enough that looking for other options makes me scared.