Congrats to New Graduates!

[Bulldog Backer]

Including, "The Legbreaker!"

Russ, now that the easy part of developing a career is over, go out and get a job and join the Bulldog Club!!!! We need you coaching!

 

[RocketCityDawg]

A lady from my Sunday School class was there for her son's graduation.

Yet another rocket city dawg joins the pack.

RCD

 

[jackbaddawg]

age and you'll be fine. Sorry, times are hard..good luck.

 

[Todd4State]

since I have never noticed that graduation is listed by anyone as an athletic event by anyone besides the fat chicks that don't ever get to walk that far for something other than food, let me weigh in.

First of all congratulations you dead beat hippies. Your life is going downhill from here. The best years of your life, for all intents and purposes is now over. Rejoice!

I know you are glad that your days of "sleeping in until 10" because of that 11 AM class are over. That endless supply of college tail- gone. Getting in to MSU baseball games for free and football games for the season for 25 bucks- over. And I'm not even going into trying to get basketball tickets for this year. Just forget it. Unless you want to watch us skulldrag Gardner-Webb. Having your parents to mooch off of so that you can go on that "on a whim" roadtrip to New Orleans to "make memories"- over. Well, over until they get tired of giving you money that they force you to get a job. And going out on that popular evening- you know, Tuesday, and then going to class hung over or maybe not even going at all, yeah, well that's a good way to get fired, or at the very least suffer through a LONG day. And having endless hours to workout at the Sanderson Center for free. That's over. Along with the tail. I mentioned that already. And yes, there are other gyms, but it's a LOT harder to be motivated when you work eight hours as opposed to two, and have only four-five hours left in the day of free time.

And I know you are sitting there thinking, oh well, I'm going to make a DIFFERENCE in the world. In all likelihood, no you're not. It's real easy to sit around and scoff at those of us working while you're sitting around with some hippy professor who hasn't worked a day in his life either, and plot how you are going to be a mover and shaker in the world of Psychology. It's not going to happen. You're going to end up getting a real job and then either A. act like you know more than me, and make yourself look like an *** or B you're going to come in clueless and then eventually fall in line. I prefer people take route B. Watch The Office. It might as well be a documentary.

That said, get a job.

 

[CivilEngineerDog]

my 7 years in college were great!

Joni Mitchell said it best:

"Don't it always seem to go
That you don't know what you've got
Till it's gone."

 

[DAWG61]

Funny stuff, you forgot to mention that everything you work for money wise is going to be immediately spent for **** you would prefer not to pay for, every week for the rest of your life.

 

[karlchilders.sixpack]

..

 

[Optimus Prime 4]

and sleeping til ten am? Who can even do that anymore? I wake up at the crack of 6:15 regardless of what day of the week it is. Even if I want to sleep later, I can't.

And making it through an hour or two of class hungover is nothing compared to nine or ten hours of work. And dealing with people. Hell, these kids didn't even have to pretend to listen in class. They had laptops, and could surf the net. We actually had to pay attention, or fake it.

Three classes in one day used to be a long day. Get ready for 10 maybe 12 hour work days, yay! Oh, and the chicks you turn down now? Yeah, you'll give your left arm to have them in your office building. Trade hot co-eds for Marcia and Amanda in accounting... not a fair trade.

Now I have to get back to wearing an onion on my belt, as was the style at the time.

Get off my lawn.

 

[Barkman Turner Overdrive]

I hope this never gets locked.

 

[cowbell9]

...once you get hired by a company....forget everything you learned. You will do it their way, or you will be unemployed. Trick is, insert your ideas thru others at first and see how it flys. Step on whoever you have to to move up. Then enjoy the "**** rolls downhill" environment. Soon, you will reap huge rewards.

 

[AROB44]

...once you get hired by a company....forget everything you learned. You will do it their way, or you will be unemployed. Trick is, insert your ideas thru others at first and see how it flys. Step on whoever you have to to move up. Then enjoy the "**** rolls downhill" environment. Soon, you will reap huge rewards.

Hopefully, **** like that will come back and bite you in the *** at the appropriate time in your life. I've seen it happen quite a few times and it is a wonderful sight to behold.

 

[dawgmaster]

Get a job, hardly miss any time in ten yrs , lead your division in sales for ten yrs, develop loyalty to the company, develop a hard charging work ethic, develop deep good rapor with your boss, only to have that boss go down oneday at age 44 with a stroke and 20 minutes later a fat prick from New Jersey ( cross between John Belushi and Mike Golic) pop up and take over the bosses office and right after sitting down in his chair grabs the phone and delivers the ole " the way you guys have been doing your jobs is out the window and now we are going to do things my way "! line. At our first meeting under this Ahole , he announced that even though the Southeast ( Atlanta division has been leading the pharmaceutical company in numbers for the last twelve yrs) that all of us "Southerners" act like the owners of the New York company owes us something. He went on to start changing zip codes. This can really mess a reps territory up. Even though I lived in Castlewoods and alot of my doctors worked at River Oaks and down around the Baptist Hospital at the Collonades, he sent the rep up from Hattiesburg to call on them , saying that per the zip code map, that rep was " closeer " to them than me. What an idiot. What he ended up doing to ALL of US longtimers was waiting for us to get closer to our incentive stock option vestation date and severanced us out and replacing us with college grads. In my case, I was severanced out just eight days shy of my vestation date, where I stood to cash in about 385 thousand dollars worth of stock. That's what these companies do now a days. My wife and I have never recovered emotionally from this theivery! EPILOGUE: Fat boy was fired in 2007 due to the fact that his division fell to the very bottom! Everyday, I ask myself: Where would I be if my boss had not had that damn stroke. It is amazing how one small incident can ruin you financially and the very type of personality times 100 you fear being put over you --happens! My only advice to recent graduates is: BEWARE !

 

[Chickamauga]

Get a job, hardly miss any time in ten yrs , lead your division in sales for ten yrs, develop loyalty to the company, develop a hard charging work ethic, develop deep good rapor with your boss, only to have that boss go down oneday at age 44 with a stroke and 20 minutes later a fat prick from New Jersey ( cross between John Belushi and Mike Golic) pop up and take over the bosses office and right after sitting down in his chair grabs the phone and delivers the ole " the way you guys have been doing your jobs is out the window and now we are going to do things my way "! line. At our first meeting under this Ahole , he announced that even though the Southeast ( Atlanta division has been leading the pharmaceutical company in numbers for the last twelve yrs) that all of us "Southerners" act like the owners of the New York company owes us something. He went on to start changing zip codes. This can really mess a reps territory up. Even though I lived in Castlewoods and alot of my doctors worked at River Oaks and down around the Baptist Hospital at the Collonades, he sent the rep up from Hattiesburg to call on them , saying that per the zip code map, that rep was " closeer " to them than me. What an idiot. What he ended up doing to ALL of US longtimers was waiting for us to get closer to our incentive stock option vestation date and severanced us out and replacing us with college grads. In my case, I was severanced out just eight days shy of my vestation date, where I stood to cash in about 385 thousand dollars worth of stock. That's what these companies do now a days. My wife and I have never recovered emotionally from this theivery! EPILOGUE: Fat boy was fired in 2007 due to the fact that his division fell to the very bottom! Everyday, I ask myself: Where would I be if my boss had not had that damn stroke. It is amazing how one small incident can ruin you financially and the very type of personality times 100 you fear being put over you --happens! My only advice to recent graduates is: BEWARE !

This post is shockingly similar to some letters that I would read.

"Theivery" was a common constituent complaint. However, I haven't seen anyone talk about "rapor" or "vestation" before.

 

[Original48]

I thought Cinderella said that. 80s hair bands have perspective.

 

[Optimus Prime 4]

I get X number that vest (is vest a word?) every year. I was given a lump sum, but so many vest every year. So there is not big one vesting date they can fire me before.

 

[cowbell9]

nm

 

[AROB44]

Actually, no. I have done quite well. But I have taken down a couple like you. Gave me great pleasure at the time.

 

[cowbell9]

...you to take someone down, but it wasnt oikay for that person to have done the same before you?

 

[patdog]

you're were over 40 when you were fired so you should sue their *** for age discrimination. Or at least threaten to sue and try to get a settlement from them. But if you threaten to sue, you'd better go ahead and get a lawyer because unless the threat comes under his letterhead they'll just ignore it.

Never mind, I see that the boss was 44, not you. But if you were over 40 when you were fired, it's something you should consider. The fact you were about to vest in those options wouldn't look good at all in front of a jury and they will know that, so you could probably get a settlement.