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Nintendo contractor gets Game Over pink slip
Posted by Fired Fred on September 24, 2007 4:38 PM
Today is one of those exceptionally rare days that I'm actually talking to Lucas, my lifeline into the warm and happy fuzziness of the best little job search site out there, Simply Hired. He's got some questions about an expense report I've filed.
He accurately pointed out that I've never submitted an expense report before. I explain that it's an extraordinary circumstance, the night Halo 3 hits retail shelves.
Lucas has all these droning questions. Why do you need a windowless van, chloroform, bleach, quicklime, a shovel, and a red flashlight? Why do you have a scrapbook filled with 90 different news stories about the Chargers and their losses this year?
Why do you have 18 pages of carefully annotated notes on Norv Turner's movements, known associates, all cross-referenced onto maps? You're not upset that the Chargers lost again, are you Fred?
Three minutes later, he's pulling me out of the driver's seat of a windowless Econoline. No, Fred! It's not worth it, please! We're talking federal charges here!
He waves a neat little firing tale in front of me. This will take your mind off Norv Tur...
Another few minutes pass, and we're outside the van again. Please just read it, he says.
This is what passes for righteous justice, in Lucas' mind. I have to admit, it's pretty funny. There was this Nintendo contractor, who had lots to say about her co-workers on her personal blog...
One post on Zenner's blog--titled "The Daily Weed"--begins with her disputing her friends' perception that she is a pothead. She digresses into a wry tirade against one of her bosses: "One plus about working with [a] hormonal, facial-hair-growing, frumpy [woman] is that I have found a new excuse to drink heavily," Zenner writes. "My gut tells me that this woman hasn't been fucked in years."Much as I'd like to read the original post, the fired blogger, Jessica Zenner alias 'Jessica Carr' has wiped out that entry, and probably a bunch more.
I've got some advice for her. The next contract gig you take, Jessica, have them let you work from home. No daycare expense and no frumpy bosses in your face. I know I'd have a hard time handling seeing Lucas every damn day.
Thanks, I'll keep that in mind. ;)
Posted on: September 24, 2007 9:08 PM