Christmas Time Layoffs Suck

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgNheOJ6NyXpWFDAdO758vLt-PC0Tsgo0Uwe8EKUiwZcOmlPFm5W-ESeHRDQj-EuEqIf2kKKI9CX1Vm_hZSNCw39-0nLVyo8cn9j-lXdh6-kxvkZvQx7p5hIY51fsFczRngwuQHGtyD-PIi/s1600/Scrooge+Christmas.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="355" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgNheOJ6NyXpWFDAdO758vLt-PC0Tsgo0Uwe8EKUiwZcOmlPFm5W-ESeHRDQj-EuEqIf2kKKI9CX1Vm_hZSNCw39-0nLVyo8cn9j-lXdh6-kxvkZvQx7p5hIY51fsFczRngwuQHGtyD-PIi/s400/Scrooge+Christmas.jpg" width="400" /></a><i>“Fire and damnation! Don't they know that I'm trying to run a business here?"</i><br /><i><br /></i><i>--Scrooge</i><br /><br />Well hail and welcome to the Christmas Season one and all.<br /><br />Two weeks plus one day until we celebrate the birth of the Holy Baby Jeebus and/or shallowly shower each other with lead based gifts from China and gift cards to Subway.<br /><br />Kidding, kidding, of course.  I love Christmas.  I’m Father Christmas…I am Matt-Man Christmas.<br /><br />I know…I may have sounded sarcastic just then, but I really do love Christmas, because it is, religious affiliation aside, fun time with family and friends no matter what your denomination or liturgical proclivity.<br /><br />However…<br /><br />My Red and Green Christmas has just suffered a Black Eye, because after twelve and a half years of being “The Girl Friday”, my BFF/OSP, Schmoop, has been callously laid off by one Bill “Scrooge” Pence.<br /><br />That’s right…<br /><br />Last year at this time as Schmoop spent seven hours on a gutting table in order to remove a uncooperative bile duct by a trained physician, she now spends this Christmas getting her soul ripped out by a man who couldn't wait three weeks to lay her off and by the way, he smells like onions.<br /><br />Ol’ Scrooge Pence was, and is probably saying…<br /><br /><i>“Merry Fucking Christmas Schmoop…You were my sidekick, gate-keeper, and confidante for nearly thirteen years, but it is time for me to have you gunned down like my Lenin to your Trotsky.  Sorry I couldn't tell you while you were at work today that you were laid-off, I wanted to wait and call you when you got home”</i><br /><br />Feliz Navidad and Blammo!!<br /><br />I will be attending Schmoop’s official firing today, and you know why?<br /><br />Bill “Scrooge” Pence and his know-it-all Grandson VP who probably just received a raise, think they can get one pass the Schmoopster.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEix89A8Ph_KAqCmAiftvOQamOnoJE1DqtWVnmQXM-8ubVatGUEyI2UPulXieenRZ-r4lcGvnuQRhhy7zEAfaLFDvd1ZBNMXTVqWqiLA7sDCbEq_YmGohVm4yziuiS_UNv_g3IMBRN8a-7p5/s1600/Schmoop+Cute+as+Hell.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEix89A8Ph_KAqCmAiftvOQamOnoJE1DqtWVnmQXM-8ubVatGUEyI2UPulXieenRZ-r4lcGvnuQRhhy7zEAfaLFDvd1ZBNMXTVqWqiLA7sDCbEq_YmGohVm4yziuiS_UNv_g3IMBRN8a-7p5/s400/Schmoop+Cute+as+Hell.jpg" width="340" /></a>Little do they know the love I have for Schmoop, the knowledge I have of labor laws, or the power of IWS Radio to critically fuck them up.<br /><br />You know what’s sad?<br /><br />I hope that today…Schmoop gets her last paycheck from there; he hands her a signed letter of termination, and then she can apply for unemployment, and we move on.<br /><br />But you know what?<br /><br />He will add insult to injury by somehow tying things up, delaying it, or otherwise making a mess of things.<br /><br />And if he does?<br /><br />I hope you will join us this Sunday during our IWS Radio Office Christmas Party when we will discuss this further.<br /><br /><i>Cheers!!</i><br /><i>Matt-Man</i><br /><br /><i><span style="color: blue;">mattmaniws@ymail.com</span></i><br /><a href="https://twitter.com/MattMan_IWS" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;"><i>@mattman_iws</i></span></a><br /><a href="https://www.facebook.com/mattmaniws" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;"><i>My Facebook Page</i></span></a></div>

Christmas Time Layoffs Suck

“Fire and damnation! Don't they know that I'm trying to run a business here?" --Scrooge Well hail and welcome to the Christmas ...

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