Last night I posted a question asking if other computer consultants were out of work and getting the same lame excuses I was. I checked this morning to see if there were any responses and the question is GONE.

EXCUSE ME but I felt it very much pertained to Y2k and what management was doing. Before deleting you could have at least stated it was off topic and given me a chance to expain.

-- Beckie (sunshine_horses@yahoo.com), September 03, 1999

Answers

Ok so it was late last night and I forget which board I am on. I had accidently posted on the prep board. I have asked them to remove. Please remove this as well and I will ask the question better.

-- Beckie (sunshine_horses@yahoo.com), September 03, 1999.

Just look at the Hamasaki dichotomy thread...no need to start a new one.

-- Anita (spoonera@msn.com), September 03, 1999.

LOL,

Sometimes it all becomes a blurr, Beckie. You're most welcome to repost your question on this board. (Don't mind Anita--must be a bad hair day).

;-D

Diane
A Sysop


-- Diane J. Squire (sacredspaces@yahoo.com), September 03, 1999.

Beckie.....We know why you are out of work.

-- Yuk (yuk@yuk.yuk), September 03, 1999.

Beckie,

LOL. I had that happen once, as well. It wasn't a thread I had initiated, but one I was heavily participating in. I was just about to give Chuck and Diane the old "what for", when my other half saved me from an embarrassing post and reminded me that the initiator had goofed and put it on the Prep forum.

My post would have been soooooooo much more embarrasing, since I went on for flaming paragraphs about "clique mentalities" and censorship and blah blah blah blahblahblah.

A good lesson for everybody, in looking before you commence to leaping.

-- Bokonon (bok0non@my-Deja.com), September 03, 1999.

Becky: Why are you out of work? What happened? I don't want to go searching downwards and over to another board. Thanks.

-- bardou (bardou@baloney.com), September 03, 1999.

Beckie: good luck in finding new venues. You'll probably be better off. We all apologize for 'Yuk's' cheap shot.

-- Spidey (in@jam.c), September 03, 1999.

No bad hair day HERE, Diane. Is there one THERE?

Beckie's post addressed consultants out of work and that's EXACTLY what the thread I steered her toward addresses. Of course we COULD have 2,000 threads on this topic, but what would be the point?

-- Anita (spoonera@msn.com), September 03, 1999.

Well Anita, my dear, as a hot programmer, you might give her a link, rather than jumping at her...

Hamasaki: "Available programmers" dichotomy another disconnect in the Y2K world

http://www.greenspun.com/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg.tcl?msg_id= 001LLD

As for me? PBC--Posting Before Coffee, but feeling quite sunny, thanks.

;-D

Diane

-- Diane J. Squire (sacredspaces@yahoo.com), September 03, 1999.

Sorry Beckie...couldn't help myself. Good luck in your future endeavors. Keep a smile :).

-- Yuk (yuk@yuk.yuk), September 03, 1999.

Beckie,

If I had a dollar for every time I yelled at someone for my mistake, I'd take you out to lunch. Good luck in finding work!

-- Mara Wayne (MaraWAyne@aol.com), September 03, 1999.

Diane:

If you consider referencing another thread as a suggestion "jumping" on someone, you may want to E-mail me with those thoughts. You seem to be taking more than THIS suggestion personally lately, so please E- mail me anyway so we can work this out.

Beckie...if you saw my post as "jumping" on you, you have my complete apologies. The thread was three down from yours. I felt you would have no problem finding it, or I would have provided a link.

-- Anita (spoonera@msn.com), September 03, 1999.

Anita,

It's the "way" you said it, that looked like a criticism, especially to one who just admitted being confused.

Simply offering a link, would have been kinder, Anita, than to recommend looking elsewhere and not posting a new thread. Somewhat harsh, eh?

I have nothing to "settle" with you by e-mail or post.

Have a nice day, Anita.

Diane

-- Diane J. Squire (sacredspaces@yahoo.com), September 03, 1999.

I think it important to point out that if Beckie thought the suggestion was "harsh" she's struck me as an adult who could take care of herself and say so, Diane. Thank you for your example of moderation.

-- Barb (awaltrip@telepath.com), September 03, 1999.

Gawd, all this talk of you girls "jumping on" each other, just thinking about it, gawd, if you were just in the mud, yes, I can see it now, I can see it ... GWAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!.

Whew.... Man ... Whoa, what a mess, guess I'd better clean up my keyboard. Next thing you know, the keys willll starrrrrt stickkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk

-- King of Spain (madrid@aol.com), September 03, 1999.

Caution! We now have tone police!!!!

-- Barb (awaltrip@telepath.com), September 03, 1999.

Look at that a California girl giving manner lessons to a girl from the south. Oh but Diane is in Southern California, right?

Anita, bless your heart, what would your momma think?

-- A true gentleman nevers tells (manners @please.org), September 03, 1999.

King,

SHAME ON YOU!!! Don't you know that, that will make you blind?

-- (pass@thekleenex.please), September 03, 1999.

Beckies new post...

Are other computer consultants out of work????

http://www.greenspun.com/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg.tcl?msg_id= 001LYA

-- Diane J. Squire (sacredspaces@yahoo.com), September 03, 1999.

"Caution! We now have tone police!!!! "

LOL Barb!

-- CD (not@here.com), September 03, 1999.

Beckie -

It's OK. A long-time "regular" once posted a rather heated message about all the Christian references she was seeing on the Forum. She was a bit upset and said so.

Then she realized that she'd somehow ended up over on Pastor Chris' "Y2K Forum for Christians", which certainly explained the content of the postings she was seeing. She apologized and headed back over here.

It happens, especially when we have TB2K, Pastor Chris' Forum, and now Ed's "Humpty Dumpty", all running the Greenspun software.

-- Mac (sneak@lurk.hid), September 03, 1999.

Anita: My thanks to the person who E-mailed me about this thread. Geez...Cory...you could at least give my location...DFW area of Texas,...

Anita, -shake-shake-, Frank lives in West Virginia but is cranking code in LA. Can you pick up stakes and move to Arizona and commute to LA for the hundred fifty grand that Frank says they'll pay? I had no idea where you live or what your personal situation is.

Get your mom in a nice place in Sun City. You gotta do what you gotta do if you're a real consultant/contractor.

By the way, PeeCeeWeeNee kid coders with, oh, 4 years are getting W2, 65K/year in DeeCee to do Oracle SQeaLing.

You can do it.

-- cory (kiyoinc@ibn.XOUT.net), September 03, 1999.

Cory:

Why is it that you don't address your questions to the "thread at hand?"

You're out of touch with old folks, Cory, if you think I can just relocate my mom to Sun City two years after relocating her here to Texas. She's HAPPY here. She has competent staff in a facility that accommodates her needs and wishes. I wish everyone could say the same about the facilities in which their aging parents reside. She STILL counts on me to come over once or twice/week. If I can't make it, I have a kid who can.

Inability to relocate does NOT make/break a REAL contractor, Cory. Inability to see the needs of family, however, says something else.

We'll see it through this one, just like we've seen it through any other crises that cropped up during life. I live in a household with TWO unemployed contractors, Cory. Do you have family?

-- Anita (spoonera@msn.com), September 03, 1999.