Nine Minutes!

[emosnail]

   Today I turned in the OPEC topic synopsis I'd been working on. At about five pages, its the longest synopsis I've ever written.

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   It took them NINE MINUTES from the time I sent them the synopsis to fire me.

...   Nine minutes! Thats damn fast. But yeah, they called nine minutes later, the topic synopsis apparently wasn't long enough

Comments

[nibot]

hired? fired? did they pay you?

[emosnail]

no they don't

[shid]

Make sure you ask for it back. They're just going to hand your nine pager to the next person they higher and tell them to make it longer.

[emosnail]

Eh, I'd be kind of amused if they did use it actually. Especially since it largely conflicts with the paper the other chair of the commitee wrote -- muahahahahahahahha

She seemed to have never heard of Peak Oil and throughout her paper its apparent that she does not think there will be any oil scarcity / shortages / substantial price increases in this upcoming century.

[furzicle]

Way to go !!!!

[thepeoplesmp]

Do they want you to cover more topic areas or is the problem just the length?

[emosnail]

Just length. They made no evaluation of its quality, all they want is length

[thepeoplesmp]

I think that would be a great thing to tell them. Id call/email them and say that if the only problem they have with the guide is its length and they want a paper that is longer and less likely to be read by delegates, that they're going to have to find a less qualified and more desperate chair to write it.

[emosnail]

Eh, I really feel like they'll just dismiss it as me being bitter -- and they've already had this policy in place for months and presumably extracted compliant synopsii from everyone else, and or turned over people in other committees until they got one

RELATED FACT: _I_ myself was actually shoed in late in the game to replace someone. I wouldn't be suprised if they too didn't want to write nine pages of crap for the conference! Which would clearly illustrate how they are losing their first choice staff and highly qualified second-choice staff until they end up with a third-choice ninny who'll write it.