Re: Right, now I'm officially no longer a Boeing employee
Rob Cypher
>I turned in my badge this afternoon, crossed the i's and dotted the t's and
>walked out the door into the wonderful world of unemployment.
>
>I'd accumulated a lot of stuff over the years - toys, plush animals,
>pictures. And I have all sorts of drafting tools. I'd been taking that stuff
>home, piece by piece, over the last week, but I still had a full load to
>tote home today. Thankfully my lead man gave me a ride home.
>
>If nothing else - and there's plenty else - I got a couple of free meals out
>of this. Wednesday, several of us went out to eat lunch at Carlos O'Kelly's.
>My hot girlfriend, Shanna, joined us there. Not everyone who gets laid off
>gets taken out, but this was also a celebration of a long career ar Boeing.
>My lead man bought my lunch - which is expected in cases like this - but
>then he turned around and paid for *Shanna's* meal, too, and she had a
>couple of margaritas. The waitress made a face when he got his check, but he
>didn't even blink. Now *there's* a nice guy.
>
>Boeing used to give retirees and quittees and layoffees big airplane
>pictures for everyone to sign. I don't know if they do that anymore, but my
>lead man took it on himself to have one made up at Kinko's. Really nice -
>the B-52, the E-6B Mercury (which I'd been working on up until this
>afternoon) and the KC-135, my favorite of the bunch. I started with the
>KC-135 many years ago and worked off an on the -135 program since then. On
>the way home, we stopped off and had the print laminated.
>
>I'm not going into poverty just yet. My severance package will deliver me
>the equivalent of a full paycheck for the next six months. I'm gonna start
>shopping around the local aircraft companies soon, but for now, I want to
>kick back and clear the cobwebs from the space between my ears. But I'm kind
>of numb right now and a bit depressed. It's not sunk in yet that I no longer
>have to think in terms of how to do this or that analysis. Shanna and I just
>had a fail in the grocery store because my credit card is maxed at the
>moment. But I should be getting my last paycheck next week and with the
>unused vacation and sick leave it'll be a big one. I can catch up on several
>things, and in a couple of weeks I'll be visiting the titty bar wherein I
>first met Shanna. I need a lap dance BAD!
>
>Paul
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