Asha Anujeeva

One of my co-workers, Sharon, has announced that she has finally decided to buy a house.  She’s been renting an apartment for the past ten years, saving her money up for a good down payment.  She has made a short sale offer on a nice little ranch just a few blocks from work, and she says that she plan to walk to work most of the time.

So now Sharon is hunting for free or discount moving supplies to start packing up her apartment.  I told her that she really shouldn’t race into anything because short sale offers can take a very long time to be approved, and she shouldn’t count her chickens before they hatch!  My girlfriend Laura has tried three times to get a short sale approved on the house she wants to buy and she’s been waiting over nine months!  Sometimes I think that the banks just don’t know what they are doing when it comes to these kinds of things!

Nonetheless, I advised Sharon to check with the local book stores and liquor stores for empty boxes.  They both throw away a lot of perfectly good moving boxes that she should be able to get for free, just show up and take them!

Not very long ago I was reading a business article about what professions are going to be in high demand.  All of the articles seem to indicate that service industry jobs are the way to go.  The article included the comment that there already is a glut of lawyers in the market.  I think that the article was talking about the largest gluts right now are Portland Maine divorce lawyers and Los Angeles DUI Lawyers!

I have a good friend whose daughter went to law school and graduated at the top of her class.  She’s been looking for work in New York in the legal field for the past ten years and still can’t find a job that she wants!  I don’t know if that is an indication of just being too picky, or if there really is a shortage of legal jobs out there!  I suspect that she’s just being too picky.  What do you think?

Well now I’m becoming convinced it was a set up.  I don’t know if it was me being set up, or him!  All I can find out about web hosting hubs is that it is an Internet company name.  I think that on Monday I’ll ask my boss for some clarification and tell him that was all I could find out.  It will be interesting to see what he says about it!  I’m not going to waste anymore of my time on the subject!

Sometimes it just doesn’t pay to be perceived to be the smartest person in the office.  Today my boss told me to check out the web hosting hub reviews and determine which one would be the best one to get for our office’s website.  Now to be perfectly honest, I know what a web host is, but I have no idea what a web hosting hub is!  I’m a little bit aggravated because I feel that the boss is either trying to make me look stupid, or is trying to take advantage of my good nature by asking me to work beyond my job title’s responsibilities are.

Seems to me that I’ve read a few books about verbal self defense in a business situation that resembles something like this scenario.  I think I’m being set up and am not quite sure what to do about it.  I think I’ll need to dig around my bookshelves tomorrow for that book and re-read it.  I hope it has some good advice about how to get out of this gracefully!  If I can’t find it, I guess I’ll have to spend the day doing some research on the Internet about the subject and try to make some sense out of it all!

Posting compliments of Myles Richards

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