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remember my last job? how I worked like a dog and could never get anywhere? they hired a replacement for me at a huge premium.

Posted by race-indifferent jones (aka amanda) May 12 '11, 20:23

my replacement lasted three months and resigned, saying "the job is just too big for one person."

I never felt like a failure, exactly, and certainly I never second-guessed my decision to leave (for personal reasons as well as professional), but it is nice to know that someone with decades of industry experience and who had a lot more to lose by leaving opted to go as well.

I was not wrong. the fight was unwinnable for me, continues to be unwinnable.

I feel strangely vindicated.

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I have never really had that feeling. It sounds bittersweet. -- nm - Beryllium (iPhone) May 12, 20:32 6
- it *is.* very much. a great word for it. (I wish I had more words.) -- nm - race-indifferent jones May 12, 20:36 5
  - with a dash of yelling at the sky. -- nm - Reagen May 12, 20:38 3
    - *this.* exactly this. *so exactly this.* -- nm - race-indifferent jones May 12, 20:42 1
      - That Reagen guy, he's good with the english and stuff. -- nm - Subversive May 12, 20:56
    - I guess that would be the sense of vindication. -- nm - Beryllium (iPhone) May 12, 20:40
  - get your words out -- nm - stuffed iguana May 12, 20:38
I know very much how you feel. -- nm - Reagen May 12, 20:30
awesome. isn't it gratifying? -- nm - loosilu May 12, 20:29 4
- I can't put into words how I feel about it. I'm not sure gratifying is correct. - race-indifferent jones May 12, 20:34 3
  - it happened to me with the job I was fired from, so I understand. I was pissed first and foremost. -- nm - loosilu May 12, 20:49
  - I've had numerous times when shit falls apart when I'm not there. You'd think the pattern would be noticed. -- nm - Reagen May 12, 20:36 1
    - I think I can count on one hand the number of failures that have come up in my absence. - Beryllium (iPhone) May 12, 20:39
you should buy yourself some new jeans as a reward -- nm - lord tubbington May 12, 20:27 4
- New boots -- nm - Epiphany May 12, 20:29 2
  - New strappy sandals, if you're Pippy. say, do you own any cage sandals? - loosilu May 12, 20:30
  - yeah, maybe you should ask me to photo my boots too. nm - race-indifferent jones May 12, 20:30
- it *is* jeans friday tomorrow... *no new jeans.* (ask me this weekend to photo my jeans for you. it's unreal.) nm - race-indifferent jones May 12, 20:28

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remember my last job? how I worked like a dog and could never get anywhere? they hired a replacement for me at a huge premium.

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