little. yellow. different. A weblog by Ernie Hsiung

being laid-off: day 1

Mandarin, like always, is… repeat after me… in italics!

(The phone rings.)

Ernie: Hello?
Dad: Your mother tells me you’re not working anymore.
Ernie: That’s correct.
Dad: Have you been looking?
Ernie: No. I’ve slept for 14 hours. The bedsores are the only reason why I’m talking to y—
Dad: WHAT?! YOU SHOULD MOVE HOME!! IF I WAS YOU, I WOULD—
Ernie: I’m kidding.
Dad: You should still move home.
Ernie: No, dad.
Dad: It would be cheaper.
Ernie: No, dad.
Dad: Mother would cook for you and —
Ernie: No, dad.
Dad: How about for a day?
Ernie: Okay, for a day or two.
Dad: Hold on. Let me tell your mother.

*pause*

Mom: EEERRRR-NIIIIEEE!! ARE YOU COMING HOME?!
Ernie: (muffled sounds as he tries to suffocate himself with a pillow)

This is all the incentive I need to find a job as fast as humanly possible.

Hey, what happened last night (or two nights ago?) there was an error message that said that you were non-existant. It made me pee my pants.

Oh, well, first post.

Hey good to see you back ernie…. I was missing my lyd fix…

Benjamin

Oh pobrecito! It can’t be that, can it?

I think my parrents were more afraid of me moving home than I was. But I ended up i did not.

Oh yeah - I forgot to renew the LYD domain name. It took a day or two to repropogate. Sorry about that.

Hey, it worked for me! Good luck on the job hunt.

yeah, tell me abt it…

oooo, laid off. that happened to me a few weeks ago; i got laid off and rehired in another position all in one day. in other places that’s called a demotion. but, as my boss so graciously proclaimed in an all-staff meeting, I’m “just lucky to have a job.”

*HUGS* best of luck in the job hunt to keep yourself out of the parental home.

oh eeeeerrrr-niiiiiieeeeeee! But your mom will cook for you…how could you NOT want to go home?
and “I ♥ KEANU AND I WROTE A BLOG ABOUT IT”? I have to agree: God bless the internet.

How do you move back for just one day? Seems like your dad needs some company.

Your parents beg you to move home and feed you? Man, if it weren’t for the pure hell that would make life it could be a sweet deal.

you mean you don’t make money on this site??!!

Hey, Ernie, when you find a job… get one for me too. This whole working for myself thing is okay, but I actually miss having co-workers!

Oh, and having my paycheck being someone else’s responsibility. Yeah, that was nice too.

And office supplies! Gads, I miss stealing office supplies.

This is why I want to stay in college as long as humanly possible, until I can jump straight from college to work and not have any “in-between” time. I love my parents, but we don’t “live” together well for too long. A day? Okay. A week? That’s like a slap to the cheek.

I love this entry. If you take the mandarin italics part and say them with a Bajan accent… that could be my family story. Makes me cry with laughter.

What about your boyfriend? Isn’t he doing anything about your situation? Best of luck in your job search Ernie!!!

My parents wanted me to move home when I lost my job. I was like over my cold dead body! If I get kicked out my apt I have my car, and I have my car till it get repo’d and then…well I have friends Good luck on the job search!

Talk your parents into getting air-conditioning if they want you back!

So. Cute.

I mean, yeah, I know, but still. Cute.

You should make all your readers buy subscriptions to LYD. Heck, I’d sell them door-to-door…

wow, you have really nice parents! (i know that’s probably not what you were hoping to hear) good luck in your job search. you’re super talented so I’m sure something great will turn up!

yeah…the pillow is convenient. i usually threw my phone against the wall. all i can say is that the motorola startac was by far the most sturdiest phone i ever had.

Blogger/Google is hiring!

http://www.google.com/jobs/sales.html#new_pgms_blog

I’d love to call tech support and get to speak with none other than…EEERRRR-NIIIIEEE!!

Hey Ernie- your parents sounded so much like mah `rents. hahahaha so funny!

Mama: make some salad for your lunch tomorrow.
Me: okay mum.
Mama: Caesar? Croutons are in the cupboard on your right
Me: okae mum
Mama again: I bought this u can put on your salad blablablablabla. You know what, ill do it. Ill make it for you.

ArgggggggggggHhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh Shoot me!

doesnt sound too bad. But if mah relatives visit us.. bablablayuckyuck toolooloo…mememerhhrhr
Daym! They can absolutely form an orchestra.

My asian parents always try to get their grown ass children back home by saying that living here with them will be cheaper. And mom will cook. Why can’t they let go? heh

You’ll regret moving back in with your parents… oh yeah.

DON’T DO IT! DON’T MOVE HOME!

My Asian parents have kept me prisioner for almost two months.

Parents turn into marrow-sucking zombies when their children move out. Do not move home. They will eat your soul.

Ps. I’ve been reading and enjoying LYD for about a year now and just wanted to let you know that if you were straight I would SO try to get into your pants.

uh…i’m so not a marrow-sucking zombie parent…i cannot wait for my son to get his
sasquatch behind out of college and out of my abode…and never come back you blood sucking moron that i nurchured all these
freaking years just to my make life a living hell!!!!!!!!!!!!…this one doesn’t want to
leave home…don’t know why…he says he loves my fried chicken too much to leave it…i said there is such a thing as coming
over when invited for your favorite goodies
now and then…but NO!…somehow…i managed
to raise a sasquatch sized leech!….help!!!

okay.. absolutely nothing to do with the post… where the hell is the mini-blog archives? mayb u shld put the link somewhere or sumthing…

wow, i think you parents are channelling my parents, or the other way around. i had the exact same conversation the other day.

When I left my job last year, I had that exact same conversation every week with my parents. Except my parents didn’t call me Ernie.

ernie, if i was even vaguely chinese i would swear you and i shared the same mother.

ernie… you know we have a guest room with 2 beds in it here now. you can both come live with us without living in sin.

Oh, poor Ernie. If you ever need a place to live, we can hook you up down here in Houston. Maybe I should start a wayward home for bloggers…

i hear my granny and her daughter in my head right now.

Boy does that conversation sound familiar! I was canned the first week of April. I am so greatful that I have a large amount of money saved up so that I don’t have to go crazy trying to find a job.

Good luck on your search!

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