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Just got laid off

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roor
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The boat i was working on that going to go to the caribean just laid me off. I guess the owners son wanted my job. I have now 15 day to find a ride before all the boats go down south fml. the upside is i might be going back to utah. Im just pissed because the guy convinced me to take a year off of school to do it with him.
Oct 12 2012 5:58PM
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Dragonite.
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Really sorry about that dude. Good luck finding a ride. +vibes
Oct 12 2012 5:58PM
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TACO-DOG.exe
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lots of jobs and opportunities out there, you'll find something.
Oct 12 2012 6:05PM
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7springsprod
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This goes to show that its not about the skills people posess, its the people they know. +vibes man
Oct 12 2012 6:07PM
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Darth.Maul
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This so much. Its ridiculous how people will lay off very qualified people just so they can hire their shitty ass nephew, son, daughter, _______(insert distant relative here) who proceeds to do a suck ass job.

+vibes man, I got laid off at a auto mechanics shop because the guys son decided to stop going to college and just work.
Oct 12 2012 6:09PM
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Bread_Fish
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You wont be thinking about it when you have a job and are skiing in Utah this winter!!!!!
Oct 12 2012 6:11PM
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roor
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+K to everyone for making me feel better. the son doesnt know even how to sail or run the boat. that doesnt bother me as much as he came to me and said take a year off, come tohe caribean and work on my boat. Now im down a semester and have nothing to show for it
Oct 12 2012 6:16PM
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Spinoza
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Your penis is probably way bigger than that guy's anyway
Oct 12 2012 6:18PM
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Darth.Maul
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Dude just take it as it comes. "When life gives you lemons, you paint that shit gold."

At least you got to work in the Caribbean for 1 semester right?

Oct 12 2012 6:22PM
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rzarector
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what the fuck do you want me to do about it
Oct 12 2012 6:24PM
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roor
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Na i never worked down there. i have 15 days to find a boat to work down there. due to insurance most boats leave rhode island oct 27
Oct 12 2012 6:27PM
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Darth.Maul
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Ah alright I was a little misunderstood from the OP.

Thats just life giving you a punch in the gut. Everything seems to be going great then all of a sudden, the shit hits the fan. At least you can look forward to skiing the amazing utah snow man! You just gotta look forward always and look for new possibilities and take advantage of them when they come your way.
Oct 12 2012 6:31PM
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Stainr
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Ya bro no good, my buddy was in the same situation, just puts you a year behind in class's but ahead a year of fresh pow.
Oct 12 2012 6:53PM
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TijmenDal
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It sucks you got laid off, of course, but you say it's shit because he convinced you to take a year off. I think you should be thankful. Being a year off school is great.
Oct 12 2012 6:56PM
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wait.what
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At least you got laid.
Oct 12 2012 6:57PM
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chicken
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did you give him an earful? convincing someone to take time off school to work, and then laying them off, is extremely selfish.

Oct 12 2012 6:59PM
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theBearJew
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You should poke holes in the boat. But really that sucks dude. Good luck gettin out or getting another boat to work on.
Oct 12 2012 7:30PM
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Phil-X-
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What the fuck? What kinda boat or company is this? Got you to take a year off school and then fucked you over? Thats some bullshit. Can the BBB or someone help you? you have rights as an employee
Oct 12 2012 7:33PM
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Puns
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this. good luck though, you'll find something if that's what you want
Oct 12 2012 7:45PM
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.frenchy
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Become a commercial fishermen wherever you are. Fuck Utah, and fuck that boat. You don't need them, you just need a pole, profit $$$$.
Oct 12 2012 7:47PM
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cottage_steeze
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are you like doing the deckhand thing down there? my roomate just moved to Florida to train and then i guess he has to try and get placed on a yacht or something. Theyre all leaving in 15 days?
Oct 12 2012 7:57PM
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p-oskier
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If you only came on here just to be an ass you can go find an other website, we don't need an other one like you on here
Oct 12 2012 7:59PM
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Charlie_Kelly
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Call up some of your frat buddies to help you out
Oct 12 2012 8:03PM
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Phil-X-
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Youre such a fucking loser
Oct 12 2012 8:08PM
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Charlie_Kelly
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haha okay buddy
Oct 12 2012 8:10PM
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Phil-X-
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Dude took a year off of school in order to be employed on a boat and now is facing unemployment and all you do is come in the thread and try to insult him for being in a fraternity. No fraternity man cares about your stupid insults. If you are in a frat you are proud, you sport your letters. Apparently you think its cool youre not part of a fraternity. FUCKING COOL BRO, no one gives a fuck. Hes not pushing the greek life on you so shut your mouth
Oct 12 2012 8:13PM
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.ZT.
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That sucks, vibes! Luckily you are up here in New England where there are more jobs available than many places in this country. Hopefully you'll work this out. That really sucks though, good luck finding something.
Oct 12 2012 8:16PM
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Spinoza
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*Another lol
Oct 12 2012 8:18PM
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timmi
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I know your pain dude. Not to that extent, but I was offered a job sailing a boat around Australia. Would have been a dream. Couldn't take it because I was half way through a semester.
Oct 12 2012 8:25PM
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roor
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I was a lobsterman I will never fish again lol. I don't have the deck cert I need to work on a big boat unfortunately eventhough I have a lot of experience. I'm sort of a quasi captain I can run up to a 70 ft boat but haven't had time to get the license. Luckly my dad way into the sailing community so hopefully he can get me something. You don't happen to go to uvm?
Oct 12 2012 8:33PM
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cottage_steeze
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no i got to montana state. but hopefully you can find a boat man
Oct 12 2012 8:37PM
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crab_pretzel
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that sucks man. what kinda boat were you gonna crew?
Oct 12 2012 8:38PM
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roor
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Swan 56
Oct 12 2012 8:38PM
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stickski
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didn't you say you had an internship with goldman sachs?
Oct 12 2012 8:40PM
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Charlie_Kelly
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| |. That's how much I care about your post. If you brag about getting an internship at Goldman Sachs then getting laid off from working on a lobster boat isn't the end of the world. And honestly, making a thread about essentially getting fired on the internet isn't going to change anything. "oh vibes man hope you get a job". This thread isn't going to help him find another job. People get laid off, it happens. He's most certainly not the only one and based off his prior posts it's not the end of the world for him, unlike what it is for a lot of people that rely on a job to support a family and survive.
Oct 12 2012 8:52PM
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.frenchy
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Caribbean lobster boat!

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Maybe it's MY poor reading skillz, but I don't think he got laid off from the lobster boat. There aren't plentiful lobsters in the tropics like there are on the East Coast.
Oct 12 2012 8:58PM
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E__
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'Twas a lobster boat.
Oct 12 2012 8:59PM
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.frenchy
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I just looked up 'Swan 56' Like the OP said the boat was. Not a lobster boat, he just said he's worked on a lobster boat before.

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That's a Swan 56, I'm pretty sure. ^
Oct 12 2012 9:02PM
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Spinoza
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Hey frenchy the Internet called, they're running out of lobster .gifs
Oct 12 2012 9:04PM
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E__
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I digress then. I know nothing about boats so I wouldn't have known.
Oct 12 2012 9:04PM
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.frenchy
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Oct 12 2012 9:11PM
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shane.t
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cool? what the fuck am i supposed to say? +vibes? gonna post this shit all day Click for larger image
Oct 12 2012 9:12PM
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klayer_9
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OP sorry to hear. Come to utah tho winter is almost here you'll have a good time
Oct 12 2012 9:24PM
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Phil-X-
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The fuck are you talking about? He was gonna be working on a sailing yacht
Oct 12 2012 9:29PM
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deleted5
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"Quoting roor from Oct 8 2012 9:17:13:
My dad old business partner who was the CEO of a major bank. My mom vice president of a fortune 500 company. The people I sail with that own a 30 million dollar house in Newport and just got me a internship at Goldman Sachs"

i think you'll live.
Oct 12 2012 9:32PM
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little1337
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Oct 12 2012 9:35PM
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roor
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Thanks for the lols made my day alot better +K to everyone
Oct 12 2012 10:41PM
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steep
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Where in the Caribbean was it headed? Leaving from where? And I've seen that Clover iii has been renamed...
Oct 12 2012 10:48PM
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roor
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We were going to the bitter end leaving from greenport. Ya clover was mostly owned my my dads buisness partner, he was so sad to see it go
Oct 12 2012 11:01PM
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steep
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Ah I'm sure, sorry man.
Oct 12 2012 11:03PM
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Charlie_Kelly
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I was looking for that. OP you're fine, there are plenty of jobs out there, especially for someone who supposedly got an internship and Goldman Sachs. It does suck missing out on a year of schooling, so for that I sympathize. Phil6x, try not to be such a bitch and change out that tampon currently keeping the raging torrent of blood from rushing out of your vagina. k thnx bye.
Oct 12 2012 11:03PM
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