good, bad, ugly -- you get to decide which is which.

[constance]

An inadvertent big hair day: Today's been rainy, and the weather's trying to psyche out my yard, which has totally decided it's spring in all this mild weather, by turning frigid. Or mmmaybe what it-meaning-the-weather is really concentrating on is my hair, which. There's a Roadrunner cartoon out there where Wile E. Coyote is hanging from a rope, and one by one individual strands of rope break off with a sproing-y sound until Wile E. is literally hanging by a thread, and then he isn't, if you catch my drift, and all you see after he falls out of frame is the sproing-y rope, all curled and unkempt and the latest instrument of Wile E.'s downfall. That's what happened to my hair today; there was sproing-ing all over the place, long tendrils of hair taking the most unexpected shapes.

An embarrassing-yet-pleasing conversation with the VP: "Okay, I know this guy's a qualified carpenter, but did you see that he wrote he'd been to prison for cruelty to animals? We're not going to hire some freak of a cat-killer, and for your future reference, we never will."

An equally embarrassing confession: Do you know that I've never in my days had the courage to go to someone and ask them for a raise? It is because I know that there are worse answers to the question am I really not worth more than this? than a simple no, and I live in fear of hearing them. But faced with the prospect of working every Saturday for the foreseeable future just to pay my bills, I girded my proverbial loins and spoke up this week. Do you know, it turns out that the answer to the question am I really not worth more than this? is now that you mention it, I guess you are worth more, at that. In other words, I asked for a raise and got it. Can you believe that?

Comments

[amelia-eve.livejournal.com]

Go on with your bad self, you raise-gettin' thing you!

This great news for you, and encouraging for me as I slog through this corporate reorganization.

[tofty.livejournal.com]

I hope it's over for you soon, and that you end up exactly where you want to be. :D

[gmth.livejournal.com]

GO YOU! That's seriously great news. :-)

[tofty.livejournal.com]

Ah, the perfect icon! I am full of happy interjections this week. :D

[bowdlerized.livejournal.com]

MEGA HIGH FIVE!!!

[tofty.livejournal.com]

*mega-high-fives laptop screen flat to the desk!*

[venivincere]

You have The Power!!! Erm. Sorry for the He-Man reference.

[tofty.livejournal.com]

Ahahaha, I'm glad you said; my He-Man-watching days are so far behind me that I probably wouldn't have gotten the reference otherwise!

[venivincere]

We can thank my sister for that one. She resurrected some ancient videotapes with the orignal animated series on them and promptly gave them to my son, who, ofcoursedeargodgivemepatience, treasures them.

[dahlia-777.livejournal.com]

Good for you for getting a raise! I used to be nervous about discussing pay but a few years ago I started forcing myself to be more demanding. I too was amazed when it worked.

[tofty.livejournal.com]

Man, I was telling coco the other day that I'm still fighting this guilty/furtive feeling, as though I've somehow defrauded them of that extra money. Tell me that goes away!

[lindyhoppr.livejournal.com]

Congrats on the raise.

That's something I like about the army - I get a raise every year or so, whether I actually really deserve it or no.

Kinda scary though - some OTHER people get promoted who deserve it even less than I.

[tofty.livejournal.com]

That's the great thing/scary thing about government work in general, really. Every now and then I envy my friends who work in state-run universtities, for their sliding pay scales and their auto-raises. But really, I like it fine where I am -- working in the private sector definitely has its own advantages!

[octoberstory.livejournal.com]

This asking-for-a-raise business is huge for you! I am so proud! :D Of course, of course you are worth about a trillion times more than you make. But when one is as fabulous as you, it is simply unfair to ask for a salary commensurate with your quality. Our national budget could never support it.

Congratulations x 4,000,000. I love you.

[tofty.livejournal.com]

It is huge, isn't it? But not so huge as your triptogenaric birthday which I missed I am still so very sorry honestly I feel terrible.

I love you too -- and think you are as wonderful as people come, at thirty, and I will think you at least as wonderful when you are a hundred.

[octoberstory.livejournal.com]

and I will think you at least as wonderful when you are a hundred.

I'll at least have made a good start by then. :-*

What! It's no big deal, I know you love me and the call is a mere formality. I have the most retarded track record for calls and presents. :/ Believe me, nobody knows the "oops!" thing better than I do.

[imkalena.livejournal.com]

RAISE! RAISE!! RAISE!!!

Go you. I'm proud of you!

[tofty.livejournal.com]

A secret: I am proud of me too! I truly wasn't sure I had it in me. Now I know I do, and I think that's Something Big. :)