My girlfriend still makes fun of me...

I know last blog entry, I said I would reveal the cast of characters at work. That entry has lost all sense of fun, interest or whatever since I just got fired.

Yes dear readers, fired. Thursday actually. Good ol' Lance had my good boss Pat bring me into his office. Pat looked very upset, so I already knew what was up.

The reason given was the elimination of my position. Truth be told, decisions about how to promote the show had reduced my workload substantially over the past few months. I had a couple projects coming up, but usually I had about 3 hours of real work every day. I certainly would've loved to do other promotional campaigns, but the company has decided on a very tradition method of promoting the show...make it so indistinguishable bland so the unwashed masses will flock.

SO, it was explained to me that my work would be spit up between my boss and one of the editors that works on the show. The editors usually have a couple hours on their hands at the end of the day anyway so logistically, I understand the firing.

On the other hand...

Fuck Lance. Fuck him for firing me in the manner which he did. Actually, fuck hiding his name anymore, Fuck Troy.

You see, another producer on our show has "agreed" to leave. I honestly don't know if it was suggested by Troy that she leave, or if she brought it up and he asked for a cut-off date, but nevertheless, it went a different way. This other producer, Amy, was remarkably unhappy with her job (which is a common symptom on this terrible morning show). She was very vocal in her displeasure at work and didn't hide it from Troy. The end result was Amy agreeing to seek a new job...And she was given 4 months to find a new job.

That's how Troy handles the situation if the employee in question has tits. Now, all "Mike has tits too" jokes aside, the guy didn't even talk to men that work on the show the first two weeks he worked there.
He has some fascinatingly simple neurosis stemming from a childhood trauma, and he wears them on his sleeve.

Not that I'm bitter. I was rather complacent with a paycheck. I was never working on anyting interesting. The show was never going to promote me. The show was bought by morons.
All in all, they did me a favor. It's just hard to appreciate the favor with the fresh slap of indignity that is getting fired fresh on the mind.