I remember seeing signs on the side of the road promoting that movie, but I didn't know it was something someone would take seriously.

What movie? :confused:

Shawnee Does Dallas?

edit: sheesh I am a MORON today. Nevermind.

Don't tell Mrs Dallas. Sleeve you naughty boy.

uh, the movie "The Secret".

I was thinking it was a book. Shows how much attention I pay to that crap.

OH, sorry Mrs Dallas...I meant nothing by it. :redface:

Ahhh "The Secret" that book/video/whatever needs a thread of its own.

It's also on CD rom. ;)

My plan for economic disruption is to continue to pay my bills, as close to on time as possible. I figure this will confuse things to the extent that the entire world will grind to a financial halt.

What? It has already? Whoops. Sorry.

Don't worry, everybody. The Secret is the answer. You know, if you go to The Secret website, there's a place where you can print out this fake check, and fill in the amount that you want to have the Universal Forces of Greedy Goodness give you, and you just hang it where you will look at it every morning and you'll get what you asked for. Just so long as you don't have any doubts whatsoever, because that will, like, make these negative attachments, and then you'll just stay in your same, old, unenlightened rut.

Isn't that pretty much word-for-word what got us into this mess?

My brother-in-law lost his IT support job last Friday. The whole IT department at his mid-sized company was let go.

He had been through the layoff process once before (in 2003) and he worked with a recruiting agency to get the very good job he just lost. He called the agency back, and they hooked him up with an interview, "something to get you through the new year".

He had an interview the same day he got laid off, got the job, started on Monday. It's a pay-cut, but he's still interviewing for a better position. He does clean up very well, and is rather extroverted for an IT guy. Just sayin'.

His wife (my husband's sister) doesn't work, and they have a 13 month old baby.

I am so relieved. But I am waiting for the other shoe to drop.

Cue chaos in 99, 98, 97, 96 ....

Heh yeah. To spreadsheeting upper management, IT looks like nothing but a big drain of funds.

"Those assholes don't do anything but yell at us when our PCs break! They don't sell anything, they don't have direct contact with any of our products or any of our customers, yet for some reason they make big bucks. Screw them!"

One year later

"Oh no! The IT outsourcing company raised the price again, now that we're dependent on them, and now it looks like they are sending us their shittiest people! What can we do? We'll have to hire expensive contractors to get our quality back up!"

One year later

"Thank you for coming to the company meeting. We have just sold the company to Inglomco. They think they will see cost savings by rolling our IT into theirs."

Will anyone be consulting the Ouija board to decide the best path?:rolleyes:

Was that sarcasm? I'm never sure.

Yes, kinda. I was testing for Alzheimer's, or whatever that was, that uses sarcasm as a dowsing tool to diagnose. Oh, wait! :)