# An actual Monday morning MMP **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Tags:** mmp\ **Created:** [May 13, 2013, 9:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-actual-monday-morning-mmp/658220 "2013-05-13T09:21:07Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![phouka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c5a1d2/32.png) [@phouka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/phouka)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2013, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-actual-monday-morning-mmp/658220/41 "2013-05-13T18:47:34Z")
> [@Count\_Blucher](#): > > Hi, people. > > Earlier this spring, I voluntarily resigned from a job that was killing me due to stress to take a chance at a lower stress job. (I’d be out on disability if I had stayed; it was that bad.) The job was with a company where I knew all the material, I knew some of the players, and was literally the best/brightest in the training class. It was for a project where, at projects end, the class would be hired on (I was told). Getting in, I found every other person there had been temping there for years and would get dropped / picked up to avoid the 6 month rule. In other words, No One was getting hired. > > The trainer said the opposite… Sure people were getting hired; just do the job the way they want and you’ll be fine. Then, over a week or so, they started walking people to the door and releasing them. Today, I and another employee (who I thought was 2nd in the class) got walked to the door. > > I took a risk. I lost. Still, I’m not sure that I can file for unemployment. I’m not sure if Careerbuilder, Monster, LinkedIn, Glassdoor or any of the other on-line application places even work. Its been a really hard day but I want to keep it together & try to see this as an opportunity somehow. > Job leads gratefully accepted: please PM me. > > Not sure how I break this to my kids… Put in for unemployment anyways. The worst they can do is say no. And if you’ve got the emotional resources, you might contact an employment lawyer or the state labor board, because if they’ve got a pattern of releasing temps before the drop dead date, they’re committing some form of fraud. ---
**Author:** ![drewtwo99](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d07c76/32.png) [@drewtwo99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drewtwo99)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2013, 6:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-actual-monday-morning-mmp/658220/42 "2013-05-13T18:55:47Z")
I’m packing up most of my things today. 2 more weeks in Houston, 2 more weeks in this house, 2 more weeks with the dogs that I love, one of whom who my ex no longer wants and whom I cannot take care of so I will certainly never see him again and the other who belongs to my ex who I will probably never see again. 2 more weeks of seeing my friends here. 2 more weeks of counseling and trying to sort myself out. Then back to the boat, and then onward with life. ---
**Author:** ![swampbear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/swampbear/32/467_2.png) [@swampbear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/swampbear)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2013, 6:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-actual-monday-morning-mmp/658220/43 "2013-05-13T18:59:17Z")
Dang **Count** sorry about the job situation. I second filin’ the unemployment claim. The worst that can happen is they deny the claim. **{{{$2.99}}}** ---
**Author:** ![Count\_Blucher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Count\_Blucher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Count_Blucher)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2013, 7:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-actual-monday-morning-mmp/658220/44 "2013-05-13T19:55:38Z")
> [@FairyChatMom](#): > > Aw, man, how awful! Where are you and what do you do? That might make it easier for folks to send leads your way. Meanwhile, good thoughts coming your way… Thank You! Its in NJ… I work in CS and Tech Support, both phone & chat based. I’ve done mortgage & loan servicing as well as payroll. I’m also unpublished and have a few things saved (yeah, I know, write fast, rabbit…). And in my free time, I may be doing a lot of over-due yard work, so I might peek over your shoulder re: threads on gardening for pointers. > [@phouka](#): > > Put in for unemployment anyways. The worst they can do is say no. And if you’ve got the emotional resources, you might contact an employment lawyer or the state labor board, because if they’ve got a pattern of releasing temps before the drop dead date, they’re committing some form of fraud. I’m positive they are skirting, but the apple they hold out to people about a permanent job with actual benefits keeps the repeat players from complaining. The recruiter sold this as a perm job. Then said it was 2 jobs; one perm, one project based. Then only the one project based, leading to full-time. I was full time with benefits when she sold me this job; I’d love to know if she was ethically bound to tell me this as just temp work with no future. And Thank You, **Swampbear** …! ---
**Author:** ![Jynxster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/d07c76/32.png) [@Jynxster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jynxster)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2013, 8:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-actual-monday-morning-mmp/658220/45 "2013-05-13T20:31:17Z")
[quote=“sangfroid, post:36, topic:658220”] Hi, **Jynx** - I have a full subscription to consumer reports online if’n you want a snapshot of the washer(s) you’re looking at. QUOTE] I has PMed you. Tank you so much for anytime you devote to my dishwasher woes. People here are so nice! I has a hungry and have a half an hour of irk left and nothing but a left over packet of duck sauce staring forelornly at me. ---
**Author:** ![swampbear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/swampbear/32/467_2.png) [@swampbear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/swampbear)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2013, 8:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-actual-monday-morning-mmp/658220/46 "2013-05-13T20:52:11Z")
Early dindin of steak, green sallit, friggin’ good N.O.T. and cheesey bread. Now OYKW has gone back to his place to unpack and crash. He drove back from the wilds of West Alabammy today and he’s tahrd, poor thing! Not to worry, he was appropriately welcomed home. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2013, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-actual-monday-morning-mmp/658220/47 "2013-05-13T21:27:35Z")
**I HAVE MEDIA!!!** _::does happy dance all over the frickin’ place::_ ---
**Author:** ![EmilyG](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/emilyg/32/364_2.png) [@EmilyG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EmilyG)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2013, 9:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-actual-monday-morning-mmp/658220/48 "2013-05-13T21:32:03Z")
Although I have several health problems, I rarely get sick. But now my immune system of steel has failed me, and I seem to have a cold. Will still try to go about my daily life as normally as possible, though. ---
**Author:** ![swampbear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/swampbear/32/467_2.png) [@swampbear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/swampbear)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2013, 9:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-actual-monday-morning-mmp/658220/49 "2013-05-13T21:41:05Z")
> [@anyrose](#): > > **i have media!!!** > > _::does happy dance all over the frickin’ place::_ **Rosie** **yaaaaaay!!!** ---
**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/21906_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2013, 10:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-actual-monday-morning-mmp/658220/50 "2013-05-13T22:04:30Z")
When \*\*FCD \*\*came home, he helped me take down the laundry - he’s good people! 😃 So laundry is done and put away. Supper was OK - the cornish game hen was kinda meh - I should have used my rotissin’ rub. The risotto was OK - and from reading comments on AllRecipes, it wasn’t real risotto. Whatever. We’s full and that’s that. I finished my afghan last night, so knittage will be hats for a while, I think. I’ve got lots of yellow yarn - wonder if it’s enough for a shawl - I might try that. Or lots of yellow hats. We shall see… ---
**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/21906_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2013, 10:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-actual-monday-morning-mmp/658220/51 "2013-05-13T22:06:49Z")
Resolved: Local news reporters should know how to pronounce the names of local rivers, cities, counties, and other suchlike stuff. Idiot on Channel 7 news doesn’t know how to say Magothy. :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2013, 10:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-actual-monday-morning-mmp/658220/52 "2013-05-13T22:12:36Z")
“mah-go-thee”, right? or “m’ **goth** -y”? ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2013, 10:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-actual-monday-morning-mmp/658220/53 "2013-05-13T22:25:03Z")
> [@anyrose](#): > > HAVE MEDIA!!! > _::does happy dance all over the frickin’ place::_ How did they fix it, oh Cute One? ---
**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/21906_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2013, 10:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-actual-monday-morning-mmp/658220/54 "2013-05-13T22:25:05Z")
_MAG-uh-thee_ (th as in _thin_) The reporter used your second pronunciation. I’m guessing she ain’t from around here. Or maybe because my grandparents used to own a cabin on the Magothy, I assume the name is common knowledge. I grew up around Towson - rhymes with _COW-son_ - and frequently mispronounced as _TOE-son_. My childhood home was on Amuskai Road - _uh-MUS-key_, of course. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2013, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-actual-monday-morning-mmp/658220/55 "2013-05-13T22:39:12Z")
> [@carnivorousplant](#): > > How did they fix it, oh Cute One? They sent the top guy for making apartment connections happy. ---
**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/21906_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2013, 10:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-actual-monday-morning-mmp/658220/56 "2013-05-13T22:42:34Z")
Time to assume the position - catch ya in the morning!!! ---
**Author:** ![swampbear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/swampbear/32/467_2.png) [@swampbear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/swampbear)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2013, 10:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-actual-monday-morning-mmp/658220/57 "2013-05-13T22:43:25Z")
> [@anyrose](#): > > They sent the top guy for making apartment connections happy. Did it say that on his uniform cause if’n that were my job I’d want it to say that on my uniform. 😃 **MOOOOOOM** you Merrylanders tawk funnee. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![EmilyG](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/emilyg/32/364_2.png) [@EmilyG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EmilyG)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2013, 11:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-actual-monday-morning-mmp/658220/58 "2013-05-13T23:32:50Z")
A very happy birthday to my favourite composer, Sir Arthur Seymour Sullivan. heh, his initials are A.S.S.! He’s been, directly and indirectly, the cause of so, so much of my happiness these past 9 years. ---
**Author:** ![Sahirrnee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sahirrnee/32/13937_2.png) [@Sahirrnee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sahirrnee)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2013, 12:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-actual-monday-morning-mmp/658220/59 "2013-05-14T00:15:40Z")
Moved pizza up a night so dinner tonight was pizza for the kid and cheeseburger sub for me. I’ve got everything done but clean the dogs ear. My aunts funeral is Thursday, which is also Sah-Kids birthday. I guess I will go to the funeral and come right back home for him. Yay **Rosie** {{{ **2.99** }}} {{{ **Count** }}} **FCM** way back when I was married my ex kept talking about the ‘pot o MAC’ For the longest time I couldn’t figure out what a ‘pot o MAC’ was. Finally I figured out he meant Potomac. But you are right, newscasters should know the correct way to pronounce what they are talking about. ---
**Author:** ![Spiderman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spiderman/32/230_2.png) [@Spiderman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spiderman)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2013, 12:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-actual-monday-morning-mmp/658220/60 "2013-05-14T00:18:59Z")
> [@EmilyG](#): > > A very happy birthday to my favourite composer, Sir Arthur Seymour Sullivan. heh, his initials are A.S.S.! I remember one holiday meal with a heated discussion amoung the cousins about what a woman’s initials should be after she gets married; whether the middle initials should be her middle name or her maiden name. One of those options gave my sister those same initials! :eek: [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-actual-monday-morning-mmp/658220.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-actual-monday-morning-mmp/658220.md?page=4)