Ballard Street by Jerry Van Amerongen for October 30, 2017

Todd looks at him and thinks, “I wish I’d thought of that first. Now I don’t want to look like a copycat.”

Owen has had it with updates and the “Press any key to restart.”

So he did.

With his chair.

Yes, I think his work is done for the day.

Sheesh, 5 hours and 15 minutes and Game 5 continues.

Did J Van A get his start writing copy for a PR consultant? That is such an outstanding euphemism.

Owen has logged off.

Around noon the guy in the blue suit noticed.

Dogs of C Kennel have the same theme today.

http://www.gocomics.com/dogsofckennel/2017/10/30?comments=visible#comments

He must be close to retirement. :P

Owen is going out to find a bridge to burn.

Freedom 65.

Must be working with a Microsoft product. The Blue Screen of Death one to many times.

And a Happy Monday Morning to you, too, Owen !

The monitor, it’s always the monitor. If you are really wanting to kill the computer, don’t just smash the monitor!

I never felt so free as the day i got fired. Driving home at 1pm i thought, so this is what everything looks like in the afternoon.

I did sort of the same thing the day I committed to retire. I came in on a Monday and the first thing that greeted me in my in box was an email from a VP berating another engineer and myself for charging our time as we had been told to do in an previous email from the the self same VP. ( I will say he was originally from Quest so it really didn’t surprise me any. We had to write an explaination (to our manager)explaining our actions. My poor keyboard caught hell as I detailed every bit of examples of my time, and why each time I did I copied and pasted the pertinent paragraph of his original email. At the bottom of my explaination letter I advised of my planned last day’s date and when I would start burning my banked VT. when my manager, who was 25 years my junior( But a very good manager) called to try and talk me out of it, he listened while I vented. When I told him I was going to send a copy to VP Dumbass directly. He said and I knew darned well he was right, that if I wanted to make the 2 weeks to my planned exit date, it would be best that I didn’t. I had calmed down somewhat by that time. At that point though 40 years had been enough. Later my manager said he had used my letter to explain why his peopl had done what had been done. Strange that the VP didn’t come to my retirement gathering as company policy had dictated was supposed to be done. It still feels good.

He’s made it clear to everyone else, too.

“Geez, Owen, something wrong with your chair?”