# Not gonna cry not gonna cry not gonna cry **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [April 7, 2006, 4:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/not-gonna-cry-not-gonna-cry-not-gonna-cry/351733 "2006-04-07T16:07:31Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Khadaji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Khadaji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khadaji)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2006, 11:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/not-gonna-cry-not-gonna-cry-not-gonna-cry/351733/21 "2006-04-07T23:07:06Z")
Good luck in the new career. I had to leave a team that was as close to me as family. I was laid off. My new job is paying considerably more, but you can’t buy the closeness we had. Maybe I’ll have it with the new group, but maybe not. Keep in mind it is only goodbye if you want it to be. You have the power to keep in touch. ---
**Author:** ![BiblioCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ed8c4c/32.png) [@BiblioCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BiblioCat)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2006, 2:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/not-gonna-cry-not-gonna-cry-not-gonna-cry/351733/22 "2006-04-08T02:35:58Z")
Good luck with the new job, **twicks.** Did you post somewhere (that I obviously missed reading) what the new job is? And I can’t believe no one’s asked the obvious question - what were the movies you got? ---
**Author:** ![picunurse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7bcc69/32.png) [@picunurse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/picunurse)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2006, 3:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/not-gonna-cry-not-gonna-cry-not-gonna-cry/351733/23 "2006-04-08T03:14:37Z")
Well **twickster** , it could be worse, you could be saying good bye to US! :eek: Then we’d all be crying! 😃 Good luck in the “Job Of My Dreams” I mean, “Your Dreams”. My dreams have no job in them. ---
**Author:** ![Kythereia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e8c25b/32.png) [@Kythereia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kythereia)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2006, 4:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/not-gonna-cry-not-gonna-cry-not-gonna-cry/351733/24 "2006-04-08T04:22:30Z")
Funny, stock prices on Kleenex went up today… _reading the paper_ I’m kidding. 😉 Congratulations on your new job! _hugs_ ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2006, 12:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/not-gonna-cry-not-gonna-cry-not-gonna-cry/351733/25 "2006-04-08T12:05:58Z")
> [@BiblioCat](#): > > Good luck with the new job, **twicks.** > > Did you post somewhere (that I obviously missed reading) what the new job is? [New job.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=363720) 😃😃😃 > [@](#): > > And I can’t believe no one’s asked the obvious question - what were the movies you got? Cafe Society denizens know I love musicals, and that I worship Fred Astaire. Thus: Boxed set I: Astaire and Rogers Collection, Volume 1 (_Top Hat, Swing Time, Barkleys of Broadway, Follow the Fleet, Shall We Dance_) Boxed set II: Broadway to Hollywood (_The Band Wagon, Finian’s Rainbow_ [which, amazingly enough, I’ve never seen), and _Easter Parade_, all of which star Fred, plus _Brigadoon_ and _Bells Are Ringing_) Plus a contender for possibly my favorite (non-Fred) musical ever, _All That Jazz_. Yeah, I’m set for the next blizzard! ---
**Author:** ![pseudotriton\_ruber\_ruber](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/a9a28c/32.png) [@pseudotriton\_ruber\_ruber](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pseudotriton_ruber_ruber)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2006, 12:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/not-gonna-cry-not-gonna-cry-not-gonna-cry/351733/26 "2006-04-08T12:19:18Z")
> [@twickster](#): > > nday, where I will be paid what I’m worth Well, you’ll be getting paid closer to what you’re worth, anyway. If they paid you what you were worth, they’d go belly-up your first week on the job. Congrats, Twix. ---
**Author:** ![gardentraveler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gardentraveler/32/3576_2.png) [@gardentraveler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gardentraveler)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2006, 12:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/not-gonna-cry-not-gonna-cry-not-gonna-cry/351733/27 "2006-04-08T12:28:40Z")
So…didja cry? 😃 Judging by the presents, you really left a gerat group of people! As Khadaji said earlier, leaving them doesn’t mean goodbye forever. I’ve been lucky enough to work with several excellent groups of people. Some of my former co-workers are still close friends. We don’t see each other as often, of course, but we meet for lunch or dinner and keep up on each others’ lives. Good luck on Monday!! GT ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2006, 12:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/not-gonna-cry-not-gonna-cry-not-gonna-cry/351733/28 "2006-04-08T12:37:27Z")
Nah, I didn’t actually cry. Misted up a couple of times, but the only time the moisture was in actual danger of escaping my eyes in significant quantities was first thing in the morning, when I found the present from the kids. Which they labeled as being from “the kids.” \*\* sniff \*\* ---
**Author:** ![gardentraveler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gardentraveler/32/3576_2.png) [@gardentraveler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gardentraveler)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2006, 1:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/not-gonna-cry-not-gonna-cry-not-gonna-cry/351733/29 "2006-04-08T13:11:08Z")
> [@twickster](#): > > \ Which they labeled as being from “the kids.” \ Awwww…makes it extra-cool. GT [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/not-gonna-cry-not-gonna-cry-not-gonna-cry/351733.md?page=1)