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No Howard the Duck? Well, bring on the lawyers, Ken. & good luck (after all those applications etc, you earned some).... Doug On 3-May-06, at 12:25 PM, Kenneth Wolman wrote: >> >> Yes, I replaced Howard the Writer and have Kenneth Wolman but I don't >> think I can keep him on board too long since he is much older and >> does not have the skill sets that you had (ie. Visio, Spreadsheets). >> However he is a nice fella and is okay for now(but not for complex or >> multi-tasking). How is your new job coming along and how is your >> puppy? > In my email this morning. A gift. > I came in set to resign or make my mismanager fire me. > Instead, there is that thing in my inbox: > surely misdirected to the former writer > known as Geraldine Cho whose name has > not yet been removed from the account I use: > the most flagrant of discrimination comments > second only to "You got a great pair'a' tits, > are they real, can I feel 'em?" > > I contract through an agency that is woman-run. > The outrage is general. > Their HR calls Citigroup's HR. > A friend says "Ken, ya won the lottery. > I don't know what I've won. > The dubious satisfaction of reopening > my Unemployment claim, perhaps. > A moment of schadenfreude that a man > who humiliated me will be forced to eat shit. > > A few bucks steered my way won't hurt either. > > I call a lawyer I know. He sound skeptical > (he should) until I read him the sentence above, > then says "Holy shit, can you send that to me?" > Done. > > How is her puppy he asks. > Move over and see if there's room > in the doghouse. > Woof, you fucker, woof. > > Ken > > -- > --------------------- > Kenneth Wolman www.kenwolman.com rainermaria.typepad.com > > I wouldn't want to have lived without having offended someone.--Anon. > > Douglas Barbour 11655 - 72 Avenue NW Edmonton Ab T6G 0B9 (780) 436 3320 Latest book: Continuations (with Sheila E Murphy) http://www.uap.ualberta.ca/UAP.asp?LID=41&bookID=664 White parchment trees Recording The brief lives of insects An automatic writing Telling all and nothing David Campbell