Sean's Journal
Write Me

The Plan


Big Mistake
Zine-tastic
Clean Up
Warning: Don't Read If Easily Disgusted
Thieves and Cons
Cleaning
Going At It Again
What Hell Hath We Wrought?
SAD
Deck of Many Things
I Kick Ass
At a loss
Zzz
Naive Women vs. The World
Corporeal Angst
Another Waste of Time
Danger! Boredom Alert! Danger!
Flavor
What do I want out of Life?
Question...
Shopping/AotC
A Question
Murph, to his pals
Spam Quality
I don't want to hear about it
I don't think I care
Amarrin Map
Amarrin - I just had to
Evil Babes?
So, did Hank and Sheila ever get it on?
Dead Rockstars

I am Jack's Noxious Fart
Stomach Ache
PDA - PDQ!
Twitch
The Derring-Do of the Daring Duo!
Back At It
My New Fetish
Channel 19
Chrysalis or It's Always Darkest Before the Dawn
I'm Dancing! I'm Dancing!
Let's Talk Taxes
The light, the light!
Aw Crap!
Grossed Out
My Trip to Walmart
April Fools?
Mind Fucks
Destiny
Dreams of Power
Business Update
Gia!
Spring!
Oops2
Torture
Bullshit Broadcast
Dreamland
Sean Francis L.L.C.
Amazing Weekend
Third Entry
Stupid What If's
Bonus Day
Fear of Flying
The Good, The Bad, The Pathetic, and The Pitiful
Small Steps Results
Today's Baby Steps
Birthday Resolution
Birthdays
Valloween
Relationships
Oops
The Best Game Expansion Thingy Ever
Edges
The Creeping Days
CAKE
Best Phone Call Ever
Where's the broadcast
Why?
Bleargh
Singular Passion
Overheard
Questions I'm Tired of Answering
Disease
Ghetto?
Wasted Talent
Yo-Yo King
UnReality
Lucidity
Bad Starts
Ah, Fudge!
You are looking for what?
Captain Liberty
Drunk=Rranting
Topsy-Turvy
Tunnel of Righteousness
Classmates.com
Journal Test
General Ideas
The Party of the Century
Car Wars
Sense of Dread
Active
Stupid...or Memorex?
Touch God, Baby
And Now, On With the Show
Isn't it absurd?
Again?!
Something's stirring
Thanatopsis - Worst one yet.
In The Dreamlands
It's Time
Surrender
Nothing Will Be the Same? Doubtful.
Party Planning
The Ultimate Sell Out?
Wants
More Things I'd Like to Invent
More Lottery Rambling
Lottery Fever
Things I'd Like to Invent
Sceptre, Crown, and Spear
Portical of Power
Still Moving
Moving
Wet is Wet
My Day of Protest
The Great Flux
TORG!
Tired of Waiting
Crushlink!!!!
Planning Ahead
Playing Catch Up
Pathetic or Cool?
Devil's Tower
Dreams
What are people searching for?
What the @#*&!
Square Peg
Stop It
More Griping About Work
At The Movies
Douglas Adams is Dead
Drowned by Phlegm
Sweaty
Sickness
Sharks
Tech Call
Damn, I'm hot
VPN's, Dentists and Technology
Pop Culture Dreams
Cooking
God, I'm tired
Chthonic Hands and Smurfs
Maelstrom of Ideas
Writing
Working Hard
Welcome

<< The Stygian Labyrinth
<< Boufdot
3/1/2002
Bonus Day
My company is giving out the yearly bonus today. The bonus is a grounded in what seems like a perfect science of a finding a percentage through a mathematical formula which factors in Revenue Profit and New Business as well as intangible elements such as Project Implementation. This was a tough year for my company. The company made money, which is good, but it didn't make as much as it did last year, which is bad. My bonus percentage is 50%, which would mean I should get 1 week of pay instead of a full two weeks of pay. Ahh, but there is a catch. The bonus program is meant to award 'Star Performers' more than schlubs, so managers get to do some extra factoring. In the 3 years I've been eligible for a bonus, twice I've been given the maximum bonus allowed for an hourly employee. Seeing that I am the biggest slacker, had more than my fair share of fuck ups, there is definately something else going on. What this also means is someone got cut short on their bonus in order for me to get the extra money. Okay, this is business, it has nothing to do with fair. In the same meeting it was announced that in 30 to 60 days we will be told by our parent company how many people First Commonwealth needs to lay off. So if I get the 'Star Performer' status again (doubtful) I am supposed to accept the money knowing that someone else in the company is going to get laid off as a cost cutting measure? Yes, there is a slight chance the person they ask to leave is me, which means I should be grabbing all I can before the corporate boot is placed firmly against my backside, but my naivete and belief that the place can't run without me gives me a false sense of confidence.

In other news, I've started to work out. Nothing major so far, just some ab stuff to make it easier to suck in my gut when I want to look trim. The problem is I haven't made even a pathetic attempt at exercise beyond walking for two years. I feel like I've been punched in the stomach repeatedly. I've also been working my arms briefly to help relieve a dull ache in my shoulder, which I fear is arthritis but is probably more related to some lethargic malady. Now, I have new pains in my arms where muscle should be. I'm doing all of this in some attempt to get some discipline in my life so I can take writing more seriously (anyone want to read my screenplay, a sequel to Ferris Bueller's Day Off called Ferris Bueller: Another Day Off in which Ferris is now an adult and instead of skipping school he is skipping work? No? You sure? Ok, but it's a gem.)

Journalizer c2001 Sean D. Francis