Reactions to Clark Leaving ICE

Miss Contrary: calls clark a liar, says S is sorry to see him go, and then tells him repeatedly that no one is forcing him to leave. Later, she says “We’ll always take you back!”

Carol: Sorry to see Clark go, but happy to see his career advancing. Later asks to make sure Clark hasn’t changed his mind and jokingly offers him the new Business Manager position.

Deb: Assaults Clark with all kinds of questions and tells him that anyplace is better than ICE. Laments how she would like to work elsewhere and wants Clark to put in a good word for her at his new job.


Why do people only act like they like you when you leave?

Clarks' official Resignation Announcement

Original announcement by Carol the Skeksi

Clark Kent has accepted a new position with the XXX research department and he will be leaving ICE. His last day will be March 3.

Clark first joined ICE as a temporary in Marketing in August 2003. He accepted the Assistant Editor position and became regular staff in October 2003. He has produced the calendar, flyers, checks, and many marketing pieces.  He also organized the books sales at courses, and was "behind the scenes" in many events, adding flair to the staff retreat, holiday party, and more.

Marketing will have a farewell party for Clark.  Details to come.

A Marketing position will be posted asap. Details to come.  Questions can be directed to Step-on-me.


This was too funny to not post. The large paragraph is full of misinformation. I wonder where these people get their facts. I told Clark they must be talking about the other Clark that lives in the ceiling and comes out at dark.

Sentence #1 and #2 are accurate. #3 just points out the generic stuff he cranks out that involves no real talent. It’s the boring stuff that nobody wants to do in this department. He did not help organize the staff retreat or the holiday party and adamantly denies adding “flair” to anything at ICE.

The completely ignored the fact that Clark does most of the work that Step-on-me is SUPPOSED to do, but pushes off on Clark instead. Like budgets, coding, invoices, action plans, scheduling, etc.


REVISED Announcement by Colormist

Clark Kent has accepted a new position with the XXX research department and he will be leaving ICE. His last day will be March 3. (as if we didn’t all see this one coming?)

Clark first joined ICE as a temporary in Marketing in August 2003. He accepted the Assistant Editor position and became regular staff in October 2003. He received a measly 5% promotion within the next year and was forced to do a job he never wanted to do and does not like doing. He was eventually given a demotion in title to Marketing Assistant and was told “while you manage two people, we don’t acknowledge this and will pay you significantly less than everyone else in the department. He has been doing Step-on-me’s job since 2003 and he’s sick of it. He thinks she should do her own damn job as she gets paid twice what he does. He came up with the idea of a Fall Themed room for the Fall booksale and recommended continuing the fall theme throughout all mentions of the sale. He spent many hours decorating for this event and the final product received a national award. However, Step-on-me took all credit for the award and is getting her name published in a book for it. He wants it to be known henceforth that she had nothing to do with the Fall booksale.

Clark is so happy to be leaving ICE forever and will never-ever-ever forget the pain he felt while ICE ate his soul for two years. He strongly believes that Carol is a soul-eating skeksi and Step-on-me is an narcissistic bitch. He will only miss the nice people at ICE that didn’t continuously try to degrade him and this goes for Gonzo ten-fold.

Marketing will have a farewell party for Clark.  Details to come.

A Marketing position will be posted asap. Details to come.  Questions can be directed to Step-on-me.

Another escapee

Before Clark even discovered he had two job offers, we received notice that two other un-proud ICE employees were escaping. One was retiring, while the other found a job closer to home. We’re both jealous, but happy for them.

Escapee #2 that found a job close to home actually learned she was unwanted and soon to be fired at ICE from yet ANOTHER former ICE employee. Apparently when the former employee left ICE, Carol the Skeksi told the former employee that she and CEO-lady didn’t like Escapee #2 and were going to fire her. The former employee (wanting to help save Escapee #2’s means of income and dignity) called up Escapee #2 and told her the bad news. Escapee #2 instantly began looking for a new job.

Thankfully she found one rather quickly. Her department threw her a farewell party at a local restaurant. Nearly all of ICE attended—that is, except for Carol & CEO-lady.

I attended as well and was pleased to hear how jealous everyone was of Escapee #2 finding a new job. It wasn’t even a teasing jealous, but more of an envious jealous. It was fantastic.

Now I wonder if there are more like me in this building…

Clark announces his resignation

Clark found out he was getting a new job a couple of weeks before he announced it. He wanted to wait until he got a formal offer, and until it was a Friday. Give Step-on-me a little ‘cool down’ time over the weekend.

He needed a little bit of encouragement to walk across the hall, but after an hour or so of deliberating, he boldly crosses the hallway.

I sit in anticipation. I want Step-on-me to freak out beyond belief, but she doesn’t. DAMN. Step-on-me is “happy” that Clark got a new job. I find that hard to believe.

See, I’m the only full-time person in marketing now. One graphic designer. Sure, Sharpie is down here now, but she’s only part-time marketing and part-time books for three months. Sharpie was offered the Desktop Publisher position, but she has to work in books for two to three MONTHS. Sharpie was none too happy about that announcement. Turns out her department has a major slacker that pushes most of the work off onto her. That’s not cool.

So, in two weeks, marketing will be down to 1.5 people. I’m hoping to reduce that number to .5 people as soon as possible.

A few days pass by. Clark doesn’t tell anyone aside from Sharpie and Step-on-me that he’s got a new job. He’s trying to keep it secret and follow the proper rules of conduct. Oddly enough, people begin stopping him in the hall.

“I heard a rumor…” “TRAITOR!” (second one is sarcastic, but you know how sarcasm always has two sides to it…)

He finds this curious, and questions how they found out. “Oh, CEO-Lady told all us in a meeting. She wanted us to know.” Not even managers, mind you, but RANDOM people throughout the building.

I think we’ve finally boiled down to the true problem in the building. If the CEO doesn’t find any problems with gossiping and rumors and actually encourage and feed them, then why would they ever want to stop it?

Our PreReview Reviews

Immediately following the rant on 1/24, Step-on-me sends us all appointments for pre-review reviews, to make sure we’re still paying attention to our goals set by last year’s reviews. The proximity of the review notice to our scolding makes Clark and I think that these are brought about because of the scolding.

Clark doesn’t care, nor should he. He just received two near simultaneous offers from businesses willing to give him 10-20k more than what he’s making now. I’m happy for him, miserable and lonely, but happy. We don’t accept the appointments for the reviews until the day of. Not that Step-on-me would even notice, but it makes us feel better.

My review time pops up, and I go next door. I had just got a promotion to Graphic Designer (that only took 3-years to get) and a small raise. I’m not too concerned right now as Carol seems utterly impressed with everything I do. From knitting to pathetic templates we’ve been doing for years. I figure this will probably last for a few weeks before I manage to do something I didn’t do that will have someone point their blamed hand my way.

Step-on-me runs down my list and I point out examples of things that I’ve done already that have shown I’m doing what I’m supposed to be doing. Step-on-me agrees with me completely. I’m doing a great job and have advanced very quickly at ICE. I should be very proud of my achievements.

I really don’t think advancing at ICE is that difficult. I just hang around long enough to get the title I want while everyone else flees in panic. If I didn’t have thick skin and if I didn’t have this blog, I would have left long ago.

I’m still wondering what the point of this meeting is.

So I’m doing my job? Good… So I should get back to doing my job, right?

No, we continue to talk. Clark still hasn’t announced anything about his new employment. I try not to snicker when Step-on-me brings up Clark. Then we talk about the person taking my old job, Sharpie; how duties will be split up and whatnot.

Finally she lets me go. 45 minutes wasted talking about stuff I already know about when we’re short staffed. Priorities, people, c’mon!

An Email to S2

Step-on-me mentioned something this morning about "a summer ad in the spring ad” and something about one or two pages. I really have no idea what she's talking about and so she referred me to you. Do you know what this is about?
 
If so, can I get some specs? (page size, color, photos, margins, etc?)
 
Let me know when you get a chance. Step-on-me also mentioned that "we have some time on this… no really we don't have any time." So I think this is a rush job?
 
Thanks!


If it wasn’t for other people in the building, I don’t think I’d ever know what was going on.