I gave notice at work last week. . . the beginning of the end, as it were. I had spoken with my boss about my plans last July so everyone more or less knew, but this has now made it official. Since my boss has been out of the country for the past six months or so, I had to give the news directly to the president of the company; fortunately, he was really nice about it and he actually tried to dissuade me from leaving (although I can’t imagine why). He also said that I can come back to work here if I end up being unable to find a new job, which, although very generous, also makes me wonder whether he doubts that I’ll actually be able to find work anywhere else.

So now I’ve got about six more weeks of employment before the paychecks stop coming. It’s quite scary if I think about it, but I’m (self-deludedly) optimistic that I’ll eventually be able to find something. I don’t know why, though… I can’t imagine that there are many companies out there actively seeking a barely-literate halfwit whose only “skills” (and I use that term loosely) are limited to semi-neat handwriting and the ability to say “You can’t prove I’m the father so pay for the abortion yourself!” in Japanese.

Only time will tell, I suppose.

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Speaking of work, a big reorganization took effect on the 1st of last month and my department was eliminated. Previously, I had been working in the Global Operations Group, but I’ve since been transferred into the newly created Global Operations Division within the Global Marketing Headquarters [did somebody say “global“??].

The practice at my company is to give every department a three-letter abbreviation to be used in internal email/memos, mail groups and the like. So, where I had previously worked in the GOG, I now work in — you guessed it — the GOD. Yep, so following the usual fashion within my company, I now end all emails like this:

Best regards,

GOD Jeff

In an amusing addition, this sign was also recently put up in my office:

The title reads: “GOD Mission Statement”