For Whom the Bell Tolls

[rareboy]

So at the end of the day today, I got an email that one of my colleagues has suddenly died and I am the designated person to help bring any outstanding work to completion and close his office.

We had made this arrangement some years ago and I always thought he would outlast me....but now I have to do the work.

One of the things that has made me feel older today.

At least he didn't make me executor of his porn.

Some years ago an old friend was specifically named in a will to execute this task.

 

[belamyi]

 

[rareboy]

 

[belamyi]

^ Aldridge?

Does that mean chronically ill for decades, not reciprocated in love and wasted so that he can try to forget about it all...

 

[unloadonme]

Is porn disposal a thing these days?

 

[unloadonme]

^ Aldridge?

Aldridge - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[belamyi]

Aldridge - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[rareboy]

Well....today's service was a great reminder of eveything I wouldn't want.

For me it was more like a pre-meeting with the family and his staff support to prep for a sit-down next week.

But the God bothering stuff and teary testimonials by family reminded me why I didn't permit eulogies at my parents' funerals. I hate funereal anecdotes and exhortations for us to only think good of the dead.

I am more than happy to support my colleague's family in the most presbyterian way and just get in there and roll up my sleeves to wrap up his business affairs....but I cringe at the faith based emotions.

 

[Alistair]

Oh he’s cute.

 

[belamyi]

That was the idea.

I didn't swallow the whole series : all my DA culture comes from random YT suggestions... which is more than enough to disenchantme from the... discernment powers of this world

I only fell in the trap of the gay subplot of the first season...

 

[belamyi]

Well....today's service was a great reminder of eveything I wouldn't want.

For me it was more like a pre-meeting with the family and his staff support to prep for a sit-down next week.

But the God bothering stuff and teary testimonials by family reminded me why I didn't permit eulogies at my parents' funerals. I hate funereal anecdotes and exhortations for us to only think good of the dead.

I am more than happy to support my colleague's family in the most presbyterian way and just get in there and roll up my sleeves to wrap up his business affairs....but I cringe at the faith based emotions.

You meant concoctions.

 

[rareboy]

I am the dog.

 

[rareboy]

I think I hear the bell tolling....

So I ended up inheriting over a dozen clients and projects to wrap up....

But On Wednesday this week, my senior staff member announced that he was moving on to a new position with a large organization...thanks to all that I had done for him over the last twenty five years.

I am gutted.

It is like having another person die in front of my eyes.

The fact that he had arranged all of this behind my back and had waited until less than a month before leaving has just levelled me.

So I have 100% of responsibility now for six of his major projects plus the ectra twelve plus what I was working on....

And now I have to quickly interview and hire replacement staff because it will take at least two juniors to do what a senior is capable of.

And the only way out of all of this is now for me to die. Jesus take me.

 

[belamyi]

 

[rareboy]

The craziest thing is that it probably was only about the money. The weirder thing is that I might have thrown more of that at him...and that the field he is entering is notorious for churn and instability in his position.

He told me that he was so grateful because without everything I had done for him since he was a young neophyte was how he got this job.

I said "I have absolutely no doubt about that" and then turned my back on him until he left my office.

 

[belamyi]

The craziest thing is that it probably was only about the money.

Ils sont fous, ces Ricains.

 

[belamyi]

The weirder thing is that I might have thrown more of that at him...and that the field he is entering is notorious for churn and instability in his position.

He told me that he was so grateful because without everything I had done for him since he was a young neophyte was how he got this job.