At least you had an excuse. I lost my shit and I was sober!
While we’re admitting crummy things we did: My company is a wholly owned subsidiary of a multinational family owned business about $400M gross. The rest of the subsidiaries and the parent company are doing very well, the US lost its two solid customers a month after I started. I’ve had to lay off my whole team since I started in January.
I get a call from a recruiter about a job in June. Might as well interview before I get laid off. Six interviews later I get the job offer Thursday. Put in my two weeks’ notice Friday.
Monday I get a call from the Chairman of the Board offering me a guaranteed 1 year contract (I was at-will before), a 22% raise and a bonus if I stay until the business is liquidated and/or restarted. Whoa. I’ve never even seen a counter offer happen to someone else, let alone me.
Needless to say I decided to stay. The headhunter was 5 kinds of angry with me, accusing me of using him to get a raise. I calmly explained my rationalle to him and sent polite refusal emails & voicemails to the hiring managers, luckily I hadn’t signed an offer letter yet. The hiring managers were more understanding.
I still feel like a jerk. Not because of the headhunter, he can go get bent. But because I wasted everyone’s time, including my own.
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No, this is what your time was worth
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I honestly think you behaved perfectly reasonably and have absolutely no reason to feel like a jerk.
It most certainly wasn’t a waste of your time if you got all that good shit as a result! You should be very proud of yourself.
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c’mon, you’ve got to tell the story!
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I fear that my Testosterone level will be dropping very soon… so low in fact that I might as well just have my testicles removed. I quote my wife " Honey ,Nickelback is coming in concert…I would love to go!" 
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I’d be happy to go with your wife to the concert, I enjoy Nickelback, but that might just be part of being Canadian…I think we have to.
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Just kidding about your wife, love ya man!
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Formula for every Nickelback album ever:
Several songs about partying, drinking and having a good time.
A song or two about violence.
One sad song about lost love, regrets and the unfulfilling nature of life.
Who am I to mock the formula, made them filthy stinking rich.
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The Guns n Roses formula?
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Well at least you guys brought us RUSH…
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Too long to tell so I’l give an outline.
Due to past fuck ups I am TERRIFIED of the medical profession.
Had a severe toothache, had to go to dentist.
Major anxiety/ panic attack. Had go back again, then again, and the fourth time was the charm.
A week before the fourth visit my sister waa diagnosed with Stage 4 cancer. I had to tell my mom. Mom didn’t take it well. Ahe went thru a lot of back and forth about treatment and decided there was none. Mom is freaking out, I don’t sleep for three days prior to the appointment and I am having a full blown panic attack by now.
I get in there and the dentist starts changing her mind about what we are doing. She goes off on this story about the toothfairy and by now my mind is fucking tripping. I tell her I need to go outside. She said no. I tell her I NEED to outside. NO. When I jumped up and jerked the shit off of me. She told me to sit. Bad idea! We almost locked up there. I got to go outside😉 If at anytime I actually SAY that I am having an anxiety attack, Words are beyond my comprehension. I am no longer in flight mode, I am in FIGHT mode.
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I’m absolutely convinced that unless you’re one hell of a behemoth, it’s damn near impossible to look like you’ve big arms whilst doing the front lat spread pose. Either that or I’ve a flawed perception of what “big arms” are.
I was ranting about something like this several posts up. This is EXACTLY how I feel about almost every “alternative” band from Nirvana to the post-Nirvana era.
dayyyyum. Lucky for the dentist you didn’t use those new muscles of yours to rip her in half.
I’m sorry to hear about your sister.
TOUCH ME AM SYICK
It’s NOISE! ANGRY PRE-EMO NOISE!
it’s raw fucking awesomeness!
Thanks Yogi. I try to tell people and they just ignore me until I get bat shit crazy. Then OMG! It’s me that has the problem. 
Everybody kept telling me… they will give some pills to take before you go so you will calm down and everything will be fine. Uh… NO, I haven’t gotten any of these magical pills.
Soooooo… We all have our moments we are not proud of. All we can do is learn from our mistakes and try not to let it happen again. We are only human.
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