FROM AN EMAIL EXCHANGE WITH A “LANDED” TURKEY
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From: A Landed Turkey
Sent: Friday, May 25, 2007 8:44 AM
To: His Turkeyness
Subject: Landed!
FJohn,
Well, this turkey didn’t quite die of old age.
Landed about 2 weeks ago – company immediately flew me to Belgium for the week, for the annual European distributor meeting.
Will be moving to Michigan as soon as I can sell my (gorgeous) condo in Atlanta. Know anyone in the market?
Take care,
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Dear surviving turkey XXXXXXX,,
Mozel Tov. Great News. Vunderbar!
I have some networking contacts in Atlanta. Why not make up a one pager about it and I’ll float it to them.
I assume that you have already rewritten your resume and networking profile, update the myriad of sites, fixed LinkedIn & Plaxo, updated your professional blog, and notified the 9 gazillion of your closest networking buds.
In Roman times and Papal coronations, “Sic Gloria Transit Mundi” http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sic_transit_gloria_mundi, so permit me to be the slave behind you.
I find that newly landed Turkeys, wanting to put all the bad times behind them, as if it was an aberration, promptly forget all the “lessons learned” and “people met” during the ordeal. Maybe it’s natural. Several “turkey masters” believe that it’s not ingratitude but a reaction to a reminder of “bad times”. I’m very mellow about that. I don’t need anything but the pleasure of a “turkey well landed’.
But, please don’t make the mistake to think “it can’t happen again”. I’ve seen turkeys back out after as little as five weeks. One fellow — clearly an aberration — was nuked the day he showed up for work after relocating his family internationally — they paid him off, but he still hasn’t recovered.
I don’t remember and don’t have time to look it up but are you an execunet member? A jibber jobber member? If not, consider it. Between the two, it’s a few buck a month. Think of it as you own personal unemployment insurance.
Yell if I can help in some way,
Fjohn
the big fat old turkey hisself
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Execunet http://www.execunet.com
JibberJobber http://www.jobberjobber.com
And, I forgot to nag about a website with a personal professional email as is offered by my WSP http://www.1and1.com/?k_id=9113251
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Note: While I am happy, there are more turkeys to help. Hence, this blog post for all of the complacent soon to be axed turkeys out there. “The Grim Farmer Is Coming For You NEXT! Be afraid, be very afraid.”
(Have to keep up the turkey metaphor. What else does a turkey fear but the farmer’s axe?)
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