The MerleSneed blog was saddened today to learn of the passing of Sneed blog favorite, Anna Nicole Smith, the Rose of Mexia, Texas.
Watching Ms. Smith was like watching a train wreck and provided a lesson that no amount of notoriety or money can keep the determined person from screwing up her life.
Many people unfairly criticized our Anna Nicole, accusing her of marrying for money. I remain unconvinced that she did. Many 26-year-old gals marry 90-year-old men, Anna Nicole can hardly be blamed that the apple of her eye just happened to be a billionaire. In fairness J. Howard Marshall, Anna's squeeze was only 89, so the naysayers ought to back off on the charge that she was too young to marry him.
Recently, Anna Nicole was accused of drug and alcohol abuse, and a gold digger has emerged to claim that he is the real father of her newborn. Some people will do or say anything for money. All the allegations remain just that.
Goodbye sweet Anna, your flame flickered out too soon, unlike my hair, which seems to be on fire.
In other news Tedious Systems, my employer, announced today that the employees will be receiving a bonus for their heroic efforts in making the company a leader in the field of internal process redundancy during 2006.
The way this works is that there is a bonus amount based upon our salary times a payout percentage. They made the mistake of publishing that payout percentage, so I know exactly what my target amount is. The boss then has a pool of bonus money equal to the the number of employees times the payout percentage times their salary. He or she has the discretion of reducing or increasing an individual's bonus by twenty percent, so long as all the money is distributed.
I am confident that my boss, the eminently fair and quite hunky, Randall Bing, will reward us commensurate with our individual contribution. What do I smell, burning? Oh crap, my hair's on fire again!
Anyway we have a couple of world-class brown-nosers in the office and I fear a portion of my share of the loot could be skimmed off by these two smooth-talking knuckleheads. Should this happen I have concocted an elaborate scenario that culminates in my indignant resignation, but only after I throw a hissyfit that will be the stuff of Tedious Systems folklore.
For the moment, I await further developments.
Merle.
Things in this blog represented to be fact, may or may not actually be true. The writer is frequently wrong, sometimes just full of it, but always judgemental and cranky
Tag: Daily Life
Personal Finance
Humor
Watching Ms. Smith was like watching a train wreck and provided a lesson that no amount of notoriety or money can keep the determined person from screwing up her life.
Many people unfairly criticized our Anna Nicole, accusing her of marrying for money. I remain unconvinced that she did. Many 26-year-old gals marry 90-year-old men, Anna Nicole can hardly be blamed that the apple of her eye just happened to be a billionaire. In fairness J. Howard Marshall, Anna's squeeze was only 89, so the naysayers ought to back off on the charge that she was too young to marry him.
Recently, Anna Nicole was accused of drug and alcohol abuse, and a gold digger has emerged to claim that he is the real father of her newborn. Some people will do or say anything for money. All the allegations remain just that.
Goodbye sweet Anna, your flame flickered out too soon, unlike my hair, which seems to be on fire.
In other news Tedious Systems, my employer, announced today that the employees will be receiving a bonus for their heroic efforts in making the company a leader in the field of internal process redundancy during 2006.
The way this works is that there is a bonus amount based upon our salary times a payout percentage. They made the mistake of publishing that payout percentage, so I know exactly what my target amount is. The boss then has a pool of bonus money equal to the the number of employees times the payout percentage times their salary. He or she has the discretion of reducing or increasing an individual's bonus by twenty percent, so long as all the money is distributed.
I am confident that my boss, the eminently fair and quite hunky, Randall Bing, will reward us commensurate with our individual contribution. What do I smell, burning? Oh crap, my hair's on fire again!
Anyway we have a couple of world-class brown-nosers in the office and I fear a portion of my share of the loot could be skimmed off by these two smooth-talking knuckleheads. Should this happen I have concocted an elaborate scenario that culminates in my indignant resignation, but only after I throw a hissyfit that will be the stuff of Tedious Systems folklore.
For the moment, I await further developments.
Merle.
Things in this blog represented to be fact, may or may not actually be true. The writer is frequently wrong, sometimes just full of it, but always judgemental and cranky
Tag: Daily Life
Personal Finance
Humor
2 comments:
I've never received a bonus.
Hi Merle, just stopped by.
Ched
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