It all started last night...
...when I showed up for a meeting, and was unceremoniously laid off by the company that up until now had provided my main source of income. I'm a self employed entertainer, and in the current economical climate times are tough for everyone, but this isn't (as far as I know) a financial decision, just a "you're not right for our venues" issue. It seems strange to me, as they have kept me on for nearly 5 years, and this is the first I knew that things weren't right. No word of complaint from the management, takings are continuing to rise, and the customers seem to be enjoying themselves.

However, it appears that at least one member of the management team is either very stupid, or just vindictive... my phone has been ringing constantly all week with calls from concerned friends, customers and even other venues offering me work, all of whom had heard about my loss several days before me. It seems that the venue manager told a customer last weekend, not realising that her grand-daughter's father is the brother of my God Daughter's uncle! As there is no smoke without fire (even in this poor excuse for a town where the main hobby seems to be starting nasty rumours) I had already provisionally accepted a new job in a better venue for slightly more money before I had the meeting last night, and haven't told my current (but soon to be ex) employers that I knew what was coming, or that I had new work lined up.

Even more surprising is that I have been given two weeks notice. That's two weeks of work that they quite honestly didn't have to give me, and two weeks of opportunities to network with the customers, and if I wanted to, screw them over - either by not turning up, or worse still having a full rant over the microphone. If I was them, I would be very scared about what could happen... and at least make sure that there is someone standing by to cover me. And I'm sure that this will already be in place... and no doubt the doorstaff will have had their instructions too.

But I'm going to have the last laugh next Saturday, my final night, by doing absolutely nothing to harm their business & not telling the management what I really think of them despite them stabbing me in the back... two weekends of seeing them sweat and twitch, wondering what is going to happen is good enough revenge for me... and I will leave with my head held high like the true pro that I am!
(Nozirrah turned left instead of right and ended up here on, Fri 4 Feb 2011, 15:12, 20 replies)

Do
you do magic?
(bROKEN aRROW PUA HVI Master, Fri 4 Feb 2011, 15:26, closed)

I was going to say Shirley Bassey impersonator

(Reverend Fister "a disciplined fuckwit", Fri 4 Feb 2011, 16:00, closed)

I was going for £2 a turn afternoon pub stripper

(Bonzodog29 is an unemployed sponge of the worst kind, Fri 4 Feb 2011, 16:07, closed)

Both
Would be one hell of an act!!
(bROKEN aRROW PUA HVI Master, Fri 4 Feb 2011, 16:09, closed)

Gold Fingers

(Bonzodog29 is an unemployed sponge of the worst kind, Fri 4 Feb 2011, 16:15, closed)

haha!

(bROKEN aRROW PUA HVI Master, Fri 4 Feb 2011, 16:22, closed)

Gold Smelly
(Reverend Fister "a disciplined fuckwit", Fri 4 Feb 2011, 16:42, closed)

I racking my brains but I haven't got it.
hmmm "grand-daughter's father is the brother of my God Daughter's uncle" - no not got it. Boy am I going to kick myself.

or it could be some obscure US TV show.

EDIT: is it SOAP? The plot seams weak enough.
( buffet_the_appetite_slayer ٩(●̮̃•)۶ jacked in to the ICE on, Fri 4 Feb 2011, 15:51, closed)

Tell me about it
I didn't need that brain twister after a week at work.

I still can't work it out.
(dchurch bah, Fri 4 Feb 2011, 17:36, closed)

Got it!
Ted Bovis from Hi-de-Hi!!

78.109.164.61/hi-de-hi/photos/1/hi-de-hi-ted-bovis-paul-shane-and-spike-dixon-jeffrey-holland
(bROKEN aRROW PUA HVI Master, Fri 4 Feb 2011, 16:17, closed)

That's the one
Paul Shane sticking it to the man !

www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZJvGdOC6D1Y
( buffet_the_appetite_slayer ٩(●̮̃•)۶ jacked in to the ICE on, Fri 4 Feb 2011, 17:49, closed)

baby BABY

( Ring Of Fire A petty, drooling belming butthurt retard., Sat 5 Feb 2011, 9:16, closed)

Paul Shane
We lived in the ex mining village where PS lives. Overheard in't Top Club one neet was that "that Jud Speight(his real name)were never any good when he were in't pit!"
(The Jannie, Sat 5 Feb 2011, 20:20, closed)

Wish the OP would just say who it is!!!!!!

(bROKEN aRROW PUA HVI Master, Tue 8 Feb 2011, 17:53, closed)

So your story is 'I don't have a story.'

( BraynDedd Natasha Kaplinsky's labia majora, Fri 4 Feb 2011, 16:23, closed)

Pffft.
Fail.
( Je suis un vagabond is an unfunny, up your own arse middle class knob, Fri 4 Feb 2011, 16:35, closed)

Where's Rory, he's better at this than you.

( Ring Of Fire A petty, drooling belming butthurt retard., Fri 4 Feb 2011, 17:30, closed)

it's not half-term yet
( Happy Phantom has been to Hastings, Brighton, and Eastbourne too, Sat 5 Feb 2011, 12:35, closed)

and yours are so good!!




*obviously a lie.
(Kip, Fri 4 Feb 2011, 22:38, closed)

Good luck Mr Gadd

( @><|= w0nu!) or cunt to my friends, Fri 4 Feb 2011, 17:44, closed)