# I lost my job on Friday **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [February 20, 2008, 2:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-lost-my-job-on-friday/438343 "2008-02-20T02:05:36Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Rascal\_s\_Mom](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/a698b9/32.png) [@Rascal\_s\_Mom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rascal_s_Mom)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2008, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-lost-my-job-on-friday/438343/41 "2008-04-24T21:00:03Z")
[QUOTE=Harmonious Discord] Yeh! Party time! You got a sweet deal it sounds like. Thank your ex employer with a beaming smile, if you ever meet them. I’m really happy for you to have such good fortune. [/QUOTE] Actually I (virtually speaking) told them to kiss my lily white a\_\_\_! I may even have the last laugh as I think they are circling the drain. Karma sucks eh? ---
**Author:** ![Rascal\_s\_Mom](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/a698b9/32.png) [@Rascal\_s\_Mom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rascal_s_Mom)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2008, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-lost-my-job-on-friday/438343/42 "2008-04-24T21:01:56Z")
[QUOTE=Otto] Sweet Zombie Jesus! A $6,000 bump _plus_ COBRA reimbursement? Please, tell me where this is and _tell me they are hiring_. [/QUOTE] Right here in good ol’ Downtown Madison, West Main. You just made me laugh! ---
**Author:** ![Khadaji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Khadaji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khadaji)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2008, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-lost-my-job-on-friday/438343/43 "2008-04-24T21:04:46Z")
[QUOTE=Rascal’s Mom] So I found me this job. Seems like a great fit all around. I started March 5, 60 days probation, offering me $3 grand a year more than the job I was fired from. Fast forward to ten minutes ago - my bosses walked in, said I am off probation (two weeks early), reimbursing me 100% for the two COBRAs I paid to keep me in insurance until mine gets started here, plus ANOTHER $3 grand a year raise. I am now making $6,000 more than I was two months ago at that horrible place!!! So people, keep your collective chins up if you are out of work. There is great stuff out there. YAYYAY 🆒 [/QUOTE] Woohoo! Congratulations! Wishing you luck and joy in your new career! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Rascal\_s\_Mom](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/a698b9/32.png) [@Rascal\_s\_Mom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rascal_s_Mom)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2008, 10:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-lost-my-job-on-friday/438343/44 "2008-04-24T22:48:37Z")
[QUOTE=Surly Chick] Yippie!! How did you find the new job? Just as an aside - both times I was down-sized, I found better paying jobs that I like much better than my old one so sometimes being let go isn’t such a bad thing. [/QUOTE] Okay, I am home now and can spend more time on this. I found it the old fashioned way, in the newspaper want ads. But what sealed the deal for me is - I hope I can explain this correctly. My current/new boss is friends with an attorney I used to work with. This attorneys wife is an attorney at the same place, and I was assigned to her. So my current boss called her for a recommendation, and she sealed the deal for me. She raved about me. Talk about planets being aligned! ---
**Author:** ![Autolycus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/22d042/32.png) [@Autolycus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Autolycus)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2008, 10:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-lost-my-job-on-friday/438343/45 "2008-04-24T22:59:47Z")
Go-go-gadget Congratulations! ---
**Author:** ![Rascal\_s\_Mom](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/a698b9/32.png) [@Rascal\_s\_Mom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rascal_s_Mom)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2008, 11:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-lost-my-job-on-friday/438343/46 "2008-04-24T23:19:42Z")
Garsh, everyone, thanks so much for all the good thoughts. I feel like I really deserved this, as not much good has come to me for about the last ten years. Maybe I’ve paid my dues? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-lost-my-job-on-friday/438343.md?page=2)