JJohnson

Last September I quit my job of 10 years and accepted another one in NW Ohio. I had had enough BS and quit after getting a decent offer. I had not been gone for more than a week and I was slapped with a lawsuit from my previous employer. Their allegation was that I had stolen trade secrets and threatened to use these against them. (I had sent home via email information for legitimate work purposes during the previous two weeks) They attempted to get a Temp. Restraining order on me and failed. I attempted to seek some sort of settlement with them, but they were not interested. It was obvious from the start that these sub-humans were trying to strong arm me into a non-compete agreement that they didn't have when I worked there. Knowing that their complaint was BS, we motioned for it to be dismissed. Everytime the motion was to be heard, they amended their complaint and the judge allowed it. They even went so far as to add that I used trade secrets causing them to lose a customer (which is really a hoot cause in the last six months I hadn't sold anything due to the new product being in development) To make a long story short, once the case moved to discovery and they were forced to be very clear and concise about what exactly they were accusing me of....they decided that they had spent more money than they thought they would have to come to a resolution....and are seeking a settlement with me. Now I know the head dickface who is behind this shit. And what it means is that he thought I would roll over at the sight of a lawyer or not be willing to fight. Once I did and they ran out of tap dances...he knew that he had spent probably $75K (their lawyer is charging them $350 an hour) and had nothing to show for it. He fears me going to a real direct competitor and fears that the parent company in Finland would not look favorably on him for wasting cash for a trumped up charge. There is no chance that I am ever going to get any money out of them. All I stand to gain is protection from a further lawsuit and an end to this one. What chaps my ass is that all this dickface is getting is a little save face material with the boys back home....at my expense of $40K. I am debating just telling my attorney to tell them to fuck themselves and take my chances. Their options are: a) Go to trial and lose cause they don't have a case. b) They drop the case and get nothing, but could re-file the case within a year if they choose. c) Take whatever settlement they can get out of me. BTW, the job in Ohio turned out to be a little on the wierd side and my wife hated being away from her kids, so we came back to Illinois. Any thoughts besides explosives? JJ "Call me Darth Balls"

I bet it's really the beautiful blonde chick that lives across the street and she wants you to pay her back in sexual slavery.....Or it could be the guy next door....your choice. JJ "Call me Darth Balls"

Well said and applies equally to any religion. JJ "Call me Darth Balls"

Prayers and vibes to your and your Grandmother. JJ "Call me Darth Balls"

My brother has a really nice hole in his dresser from his 40 cal. His was demonstrating to his wife how the gun could not fire with the safety on.....however continous pulling of the trigger will work the saftey off.... JJ "Call me Darth Balls"

So this is going to be the refreshingly boring yet mildy stupid network? Wonder if he will claim to have invented network TV later on..... JJ "Call me Darth Balls"

You sometimes are one of the most well thought out people I know. Ugly as sin, but pretty frickin smart and methodical. JJ "Call me Darth Balls"

Blue Skies brother. God Bless. JJ "Call me Darth Balls"

I would think it would be white males that would protest the most. At least more than black females. JJ "Call me Darth Balls"

Are you saying that Roger's death was entirely the fault of someone else? That he had no part in it? JJ "Call me Darth Balls"

Nice play on the Joni Mitchell! JJ "Call me Darth Balls"

So let's see if we got this numbnuts story straight: He ejects the mag, pulls back the slide....far enough to let someone else verify the gun is not loaded, yet not far enough to eject the round......we won't mention the fact that neither of them saw the round.... So the solution is obvious, the gun is haunted....or he was using those new stealth bullets.....or maybe....just maybe...I'm going out on a limb here....maybe he didn't really check the gun. JJ "Call me Darth Balls"

Correct me if I'm missing something here, but if you eject the mag, then pull back the slide, any round in the chamber would be ejected? So where did this magic round come from? I think the CYA explanation holds true. Somebody is holding back one little thing in the chain of events here. JJ "Call me Darth Balls"

Since when is politics and the Catholic church a new thing. That dates back to Constantine at least. JJ "Call me Darth Balls"

There are accounts of Jews who escaped and tried to attest that all their families were being herded into camps. Some of these Jews came to the US to plead for our involvement. The Japanese were no slouchs either. They killed tons of people as they siezed land. I think much more was known than is admitted to. JJ "Call me Darth Balls"

The only thing that stands between me and that is winning the lottery. JJ "Call me Darth Balls"

My wife gets motion sick real easy. Doing this to her invites getting puked on. JJ "Call me Darth Balls"

Not true. Much was known. Nobody wanted to acknowledge it. JJ "Call me Darth Balls"

I can suck at almost anything. My level or degree of suckiness knows no bounds. I can out-suck almost anyone at anything. I'm not just a member of the "I Suck" club...I'm the founder and president. The only thing I don't suck at is.....penis. JJ "Call me Darth Balls"

Nevermind......sigh. I'll stick with my Kia Spectra. At least it has a CD player in it and this way I don't have to clean it before taking yours..... But let me know when you get a cool car you are unhappy with. JJ "Call me Darth Balls"

My rear riser example was meant more for making it back on a long spot...not for swooping. Sorry if I wasn't specific. Nothing I say is intended to advocate a swoop. JJ "Call me Darth Balls"

Thats pretty fucked up. I am speechless by that...really. JJ "Call me Darth Balls"

Good point, it was a used canopy. It was also a real sniveler on opening as well. Being my first canopy I just became used to it cause I knew no better. I'm not knocking the canopy at all. All around the Tri is outstanding. I loved the material for packing. The only thing I didn't like was lack of wind penetration. JJ "Call me Darth Balls"

Once you decide to become a skydiver one of the required reading, IMHO is the incident and fatality summary. There is nothing morbid about this. Skydiving is oine activity where w really need to learn by the mistakes of other. Everything else you read teaches you what to do right. These teach you what can go wrong. My instructor made me read them, so there was no misconception in my mind that things can and do go wrong....and that in skydiving the outcome can be serious. JJ "Call me Darth Balls"

What kind of car is it? Somethimes the build up of... Internal thoughts not for public >...wait a minute the dudes a lawyer...probably has a BMW or something cool.....< I know! I'll gladly trade you my car, which doesn't have that problem! I'll even include the Skydiving decal in the back window and the bobble head dog in the deal! JJ "Call me Darth Balls"