The Missing Penny (or I have no cents)

I am trying to get this thing runing again. Maybe it is the blogs that I am reading from over in Iraq. Maybe it is that I want to do this again. I don't know.

But, with a renaissance, comes a new look. That is the hardest part of all of this.

Well, it has been some time since my last post. I do not know if there is anyone who is actively looking for this. But it is still a means of expression.

Lots of things have changed. I am in Indiana. I have a new job. I have a new son. I do not know how to start, but I will.

Well, I have not been doing this too much recently. The whole pic thing is frustrating. If you want a pic, just put a comment in and I will email it to you.

Things are still heavy over here. I have been dealing with frustration a lot lately. I wish sometimes it was the Old Testament days where you could go into the presence of God face to face so that you could physically get an answer.

Now, I am not trying to dismiss the cross, atonement, forgiveness, or things like that. It is just hard to be faithful to His will when it is so hard to discern what His will is. But I do know that you have to have faith. And I do.

At least I try to.

But I know that God is going to take care of me wherever I go. I just want to make sure that it is where He wants me to be.

I could not resist this either. Now, the official reason for the closure is the nasty do not call list (how does that affect an inbound center?) and only the residential CS people are being outsourced. But there is a rumor that small business (which is what we did) will be outsourced in a year.

I do have to get off of this horse sometime, but it is too rich for jabs.

I was debating whether or not to put this here, and I decided that I needed to. This is the company that is closing down the entire customer service center here in Springfield, MO, and putting my wife and me out of work.

Now, they are at least giving us a severance package, which in a no fault state is not required. But there are a lot of things going on in the company that just stings.

It almost seems that they are trying to intimidate, push, or boot us out, so that they do not have to pay the severance. Now, with the business degree that took me 6 1/2 years to get, I know that it makes good business sense to do so. That means that the company has to pay out less in the end. But doing all of this almost goes 180 against their precious ethics standards that the company was forced to accept to get out of bankruptcy.

It hurts that the time that I spent here (albeit short) is not worth that much. But I guess that employees being cannon fodder is the business principle of today.

There. I said it. Now I feel better. A little.

I like new things. I like that you have to practice to get it right, as frustrating as that can be. I am trying to get an image loaded onto this thing, and here goes!!!

Kind of like Napalm, but more dangerous. It is very infectous, and I think that I am catching it. Signs of this are:

- Ho Hum attitude
- Laziness
- Unattentiveness

I think that I have it here at work, especially since they are shutting us down.

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