Silly Shareholder, Lawsuits are pointless

Interesting, but I'm sure futile, effort by a shareholder to prevent the May / Federated merger. It raises some interesting points, but I doubt it will amount to much.

Monday my manager informed us that we will be filling out a "resume-like form" within the next few days outlining our responsibilities and expertise within the company. She claims that we're doing this so that we can try to "sell Federated on why they should keep us on as a data center." My first thought was, "Yea, right. This is just the sheet that The Bobs will use when they decide whether or not to fire us."

Then yesterday we got a memo stating that they will be doing a routine "update to the employee photo database" and that we will need to dress nicely for the picture taking. They've NEVER updated the employee photo database. Obviously it's just another componant of our Bobs interview.

I wonder what else they'll lie to us about before the axe falls.



Which one am I? The skinny white programmer or the one with the last name nobody can pronounce? Hmmm....

Gotta get me one of those...

Too bad I don't have a Golden Parachute like some of these guys

still employed

As you may or may not have heard, May has agreed to be purchased by Federated Department Stores. May is currently in the process of holding meetings with all employees to discuss what severance package options will be presented if and when the time comes for a job to be eliminated. Because of the sheer size of the combined corporation, they will definately need to take on many of May's employees. So at this point all I can do is keep my fingers crossed and keep my resume updated. Wish me luck ;-)

My new toys

Chances are pretty good that if you've given me any birthday / Hanukkah / Christmas money over the past few months, it's gone towards these two new purchases. So I figured I'd post pictures so that you can all see what you bought me. Thanks :-)

Pic 1
Pic 2

On the left is the HP dv1040us, on the right is the Dell 1905FP

Not looking good

From this morning's NYTimes.

Edit: Not really sure why the above link is going to Microsoft.com...weird. Try this article if you're interested in my lack of job security.

Edit 2: Thanks Ross, link fixed.

My blanket could have killed me...

Note to self: Don't accept hand-me down electric blankets that are as old as I am.

When my electric blanket stopped working a few days ago, I checked to make sure it was plugged in and found this:



The wiring burned through the casing and scorched the blanket. Luckily the fabric wasn't flammable...

By the way...May and Federated are back in merger talks...so we'll just have to wait and see what happens.

Good for job security, bad for my company stock

According to this news report it looks like the chances of a May buyout have been drastically reduced. (This was reported in the WSJ, but you have to be a subscriber to read their online news)

And according the some analyst, May needs to find a new CEO who "“needs to be someone who can fight alligators and drain the swamp at the same time."

Where the heck did they come up with that analogy???

Free iTunes songs...again

Today was the first day that my local Topps store was stocking the new promotional iTunes Pepsi bottles. After "finding" tons of winning bottles last year, we'll see how many I accumulate this year.

Once again, the tilt method worked perfectly...netting me a free song that I really don't need. If anyone hasn't yet realized it, you can just tilt the bottle and see whether the cap is a winner or not.



While it's still nice to get a free legal song...it seems a little silly compared to the terabytes of free "illegal" songs readily available. Nonetheless, while there are still yellow Pepsi caps available, I'll abandon my Diet Coke loyalty and rack up the free iTunes songs...I guess their marketing ploy worked.

Is this thing on?

After having margelefsky.com content-less for a couple years now, I figured I'd point it to a blog where I can post stuff.

What sort of stuff will be posted? Who knows.
Why would anyone read it? Who knows.

But it'll be there.