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but the bloggers are posting the effects will hit hard starting in June or July and lasting through the summer. They seem to expect the financial world to pretty much come undone. Greece could be the tipping point for Europe, dragging the EU countries down the tubes. Who knows...
As I wrote above, back in August 99 it was other people's behavior that was crazy. Everybody going psycho around me at work, at the condo, whereever... it pushed me back the to quit my job in total burnout. I just couldn't stand being verbally assaulted and sometimes even threatened...any more.
The thing with the security chief, Jeff. I'd chatted and joked with him daily for 5 years. Saw him coming and going, week after week. Then one day I was checking out a bunch of products for a photoshoot -- had the corporate photographers asst with me. The serial number on one small product didn't match the paperwork I'd filled out. Next thing ya know, Jeff had me backed into a corner and was bellowing in my face. I was like, "Jeff, Jeff, if I was going to steal a product I wouldn't be checking it out at the front desk!" The thing would've fit in my purse -- I could have slipped it out the back door. And it was only the casing -- there was no actual product inside. The guard on duty discovered a 2nd serial number on the other side of the thing, which did match my paperwork. He was jumping up and down in Jeff's face trying to get him off me. Seriously, folks. I'm 5'2" and 115 pounds. Jeff was chief of security -- in other words, the size of, well, a thug. :wow:
The the regular guard was able to pull Jeff off me...barely. And Jeff was never the same to me again. He would look at me with eyes narrowed, beaming hatred. He was *sure* I'd somehow pulled something over on him...he just wasn't sure how.
My manager was going off weekly, screaming, shrieking, throwing things. She threw a fully loaded 3-ring, 4 or 5" notebook out a cubicle once and missed a passerby's head by a matter of inces! :wow:
Various and sundry clients would totally lose it. One wanted me to do something with a word document that word simply could. not. do. I had the project with a design agency that was beta test site for Microsoft, working directly with their engineers. But the client wouldn't believe me. They took the project away and gave it to a rival teammate. She had the same answer. That client never looked at me the same. Eyes beaming hatred. He was sure I'd pulled something over on him. I hadn't.
It was effing insane. And these were people I'd known, worked with, built relationships with for years. On August 15, 4 days after the big cross that summer, I left and never went back. I heard later that Jeff actually banned me from the building. I'd never done *anything* wrong...but I'd been wronged over and over and over.
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