Sometimes people I am required to deal with and I do not see things in the same light...we're not on the same page...we don't see eye to eye. But since I'm a kindred soul, I make whole hearted attempts to meet them in the middle...go halfsies....find a happy medium. Unfortunately it doesn't seem to be working and I end up with the shaft. Due to my unsuccessful attempts at "working it out", I spend most of my waking hours either: A) devising an evil (or not so evil) plan for my escape B) convincing myself it could be worse C) sulking and wallowing in self pity I have come up with a number of feasible and not-so-feasible not evil/semi-evil/evil plans including: A) quit and go back to school B) find a new job C) nerve up and play hardball Ok, so none of them are evil. Or even semi-evil for that matter. But I'm working on it. The problem is they all have a catch: A) if Travis gets a job with benefits B) I live in NW Iowa, there's lots of recent layoffs, an...