Hmm either the company I work for has just given me some incredible leverage to practially demand a raise or the whole thing has a big catch and they hope that I am to gullible to see it.

They recently laid off 20 % of the employees becasue of funding problems. Unfortunateley they also fired the person who was appointed officer for biological safetey... Now they desperateley need another employee to become that. But there is only a handfull of people who can thake the position as it has special requirements. Most suitable people don't want it because it is a hassle. I am amongst those few suited ones and they just asked me yesterday if I were interested in getting that extra qualification.
TBH I don't really want the hassle that comes with it and I am planning to leave the company as soon as I find a better job anyway. But the qualification will look very hot on my resume...
I have been fighting for a wage increase. Since I know they are desparate, I could practically bribe them into giving me a BIG fat raise or I will just not do it.
What do I have to loose? They can only say no then I'll also say no too. So what? It is a voluntary extra position, they cannot fire me for declining the responsibility. For me, things will stay same and they'll still have no one to be Biological safetey officer. Their probelm.

But I am not trusting them anymore so I kinda smell a rat (not the cute cuddly kind that smells like love and popcorn)...what could it be???
Will I have to give up my project lead position? Is it a degradation in disguise? WHAt could be the catch???
Time to do some research....

I have some power now. Because i realize that Happines & Anger are closely related.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3qDhfzz7AHg&list=RD3qDhfzz7AHg&start_radio=1

I can say with the utmost confidence after 50 years of watching Looney Tunes...it didn't end well for that damn coyote and it won't end well for this moron!

And now for my criticism of the Far-left. House, feds probe Ilhan Omar's skyrocketing wealth after the 9 billion dollar Somali social service fraud scandal in her district. Omar's explanation: The bean pie business has been doing very well lately, especially when the weather turns colder.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xW2lzk5_JWM

JUST IN: Weight loss drugs like Ozempic on track to save U.S. airlines more than half a billion dollars in fuel costs this year.

Good news is they were only robbed three times and no one was hurt.

https://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2026/01/12/Guinness-World-Records-Atlanta-MARTA-stations-fastest-time/8641768232373/

I found Fortunato's bones in my basement 🫠

Even tho the states are incredibly chaotic at the momment and more or less looks like a comedy show to the rest of us europeans id still love to become a citizen in the us
Becsuse honestly although things are chaotic it cant be any worse than having the most hated primeminister in british history and living in a country where memes are offensive

Thank you Israel, France, and Japan! Scientific and peer reviewed studies on neurodevelopmental disorders and genetic conditions, not pseudoscience and uneducated hunches.

https://www.jpost.com/health-and-wellness/article-882674