Re: [metatuning] Post 9-11 Employee Background Checks

On 3/12/02 3:10 PM, "X. J. Scott" <xjscott@...> wrote:

> "I never would have thought a $60 bounced check would
> cost me my job," says Ms. Kelly. After being escorted
> --------
> off Lilly premises, she says, all she could think about
> ------------------
> were the times she was asked because of her small size
> to crawl into dank spaces to work on decaying pipes.
> "It can be grubby and dangerous, but it was my job. And
> I loved my job. I wish I had it back."

Yes the great Eli Lilly. Like anyone in Indiana needs Prozac... After two
years of living in Indianapolis, this shit doesn't surprise me one bit. I
hope the midwest gets nuked.

(!v!)

>Yes the great Eli Lilly. Like anyone in Indiana needs Prozac...
>After two years of living in Indianapolis, this shit doesn't
>surprise me one bit. I hope the midwest gets nuked.

Ooh, me too. I lived in Bloomington for a year.

-Carl

--- In metatuning@y..., "clumma" <carl@l...> wrote:

> Ooh, me too. I lived in Bloomington for a year.

I was once chased around a parking lot in Bloomington by a guy in a pickup truck. I think he suspected I was a student or some other form of undesirable.

>>Ooh, me too. I lived in Bloomington for a year.
>
>I was once chased around a parking lot in Bloomington by
>a guy in a pickup truck. I think he suspected I was a
>student or some other form of undesirable.

:)

The janitor in my dorm would greet us with a "Good moring sir",
or "hello, sir". He built his own (modern) house in the woods,
and lived mainly off venison and small game, which he hunted.
A few times he was to be found hanging out with his girlfriend
(that he met at a Garth Brooks concert) in the broom closet. At
the end of the year, he put a box in the lounge for the kids to
put "eny" stuff we would have instead thrown away, for charity.
That's right, any was spelled with an "e", on the box.

I was going to proceed to trash Indiana, but I'll hold off for
now, since this memory is far too touching (to me, anyway) to
permit it. :)

-Carl

On 3/18/02 4:28 PM, "clumma" <carl@...> wrote:

> I was going to proceed to trash Indiana, but I'll hold off for
> now, since this memory is far too touching (to me, anyway) to
> permit it. :)
>
> -Carl

Ehh. If I'm in the right state of mind, I'll admit. A few good things
happened out there in between the trying to fit in. Actually when we first
got there I tend to remember there was a three-part-comical event... I don't
actually remember the first two but I remember people being extremely
helpful.

The third, though, Angie and I were trying to carry this huge box home from
JCPenney, only about ehh 1/8 of a mile home. But we had no car so you
wouldn't know how far we were going. So we're carrying this box with a
kitchen table in it, and I hear this voice, "y'all need some help with
that?" And I turn around and there's this like 70-80 year old woman and I'm
thinking "oh COME ON!!!!!!"... The punch line was "oh my grandson has his
car we can give ya a ride," pointing to a tall sturdy man probably in his
30s. The box gave us a struggle but he picked it up and just tossed it in
his trunk. It was just too funny. Just to think this 4'6" woman was going
to do the same.

(If I had said "oh thank you it's been so hard relocating from New York
and..." I would have been interrupted with "NEW YORK??? Oh I HATE the
Knicks!" and the car speeds away.)