{"id":2169,"date":"2014-11-26T19:10:15","date_gmt":"2014-11-26T19:10:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/index.php\/2014\/11\/26\/2014-11-26-drought-html\/"},"modified":"2014-11-26T19:10:15","modified_gmt":"2014-11-26T19:10:15","slug":"2014-11-26-drought-html","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/2014\/11\/2014-11-26-drought-html\/","title":{"rendered":"Drought."},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-src=\"v5\">\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span class=\"full-image-block ssNonEditable\"><span><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/static1.squarespace.com\/static\/5a24a280e45a7c6cc6f5e27d\/5ada7ae2c4997ba0fc862517\/5ada7ae2c4997ba0fc862e1a\/1524271325315\/desert.png\" alt=\"\" \/><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bobtherieau.com\/images\/blog\/desert.png\" target=\"_blank\"><\/a> Friends,<\/p>\n<p> August? Really? It&#8217;s been that long? <\/p>\n<p> I can explain&#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>My trip to Hemet, discussed in some detail <a href=\"http:\/\/www.therieau.com\/home\/2014\/8\/15\/hemet.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>, was to deposit the final paycheck from the Far Eastern Outpost of a charity. In the intervening months, I&#8217;ve been looking for jobs, trying to keep my house, and other fun activities.<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;You can&#8217;t fire me, I quit,&#8221; seems like a lot of fun to say, but actually doing it is fraught with problems. First, I should say that I was, by my reckoning, the fourteenth employee to be <em>investigated<\/em> at that charity in the last year. By <em>investigated<\/em> I mean selected for summary judgement and immediate dismissal. It turns out that when the boss tries to impugn your expertise in public, that boss will make sure you&#8217;re fired if you stand up for yourself. For instance, I was unable to see into the future to know that the boss&#8217; internet connection in a <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">hotel<\/span> conference facility on the East Coast might be spotty. Nor was I able to fix that connectivity problem. Therefore, I must be the worst and she let everyone know that. I was having none of it.<\/li>\n<li>Luckily, I have friends who warned me of my impending separation, so I was advised to quit before the papers could be drawn up. The bad news is that it&#8217;s pretty difficult to receive unemployment insurance benefits if you quit, regardless of the reason. I&#8217;ll just go ahead and put my ultimately successful appeal of the denial of benefits in the &#8220;other fun activities&#8221; column.<\/li>\n<li>After a year slogging through a fairly hostile work environment, leaving has been a relief but getting healthy has been a slow process. Slower still has been working out what to do for a living now that I&#8217;m all grown up. Freelance copywriting seems the most risky tack to take, but I&#8217;m gravitating in that direction. Head over to <a href=\"http:\/\/bobtherieau.com\">bobtherieau.com<\/a> and let me know why that&#8217;s a terrible idea!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>That&#8217;s the short version of events. There are some great stories to share from my final days over there, but the holiday season has begun and I hate to do anything that&#8217;ll adversely effect their fundraising efforts. After all, I wouldn&#8217;t have stayed there for a decade if I didn&#8217;t believe in the mission to help people in need of a fresh start. I guess you&#8217;re witnessing my own fresh start, so cross some appendages that I can make it a good one.<\/p>\n<p> Your best pal in the whole wide world,<\/p>\n<p> &#8211; bob<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Friends, August? Really? It&#8217;s been that long? I can explain&#8230; My trip to Hemet, discussed in some detail here, was to deposit the final paycheck from the Far Eastern Outpost of a charity. In the intervening months, I&#8217;ve been looking for jobs, trying to keep my house, and other fun activities. &#8220;You can&#8217;t fire &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/2014\/11\/2014-11-26-drought-html\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Drought.&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[64,52,58,44,55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-housekeeping","category-idyllwild","category-its-related","category-this-amazing-year","category-this-crappy-year"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2169","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2169"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2169\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}