They want me to do WHAT?

There is intense physical pain. And yet my HR department called me at home to order me to interrupt my doctor-prescribed sick leave on Friday morning to turn up for my little evaluation meeting (because, of course, I'm on probation this month). They could not, apparently, have waited until Monday. Oh, no. That would have made far too much sense.

I'm worried. I've barely been there for most of my month-long probation period. Fine, I've done good work, and scatty-mistress-boss-lady has had nothing but praise, but I worry that the whole being-ill thing is going to count against me. I suppose, though, that if they decide I'm not what they're looking for, I still get the month's pay (once I've produced my doctor's certificate) and can at least contribute to household stuff while I look for yet another job that doesn't suck. Still, I don't want to job-hunt again. I can't deal with that level of stress right now.

I shouldn't even be typing this. *sigh* Back to the unspeakable boredom, I guess.

o/` Kill the wabbit, kill the wabbit, kill the WABBIT...o/`

So apparently this guy decides to adopt a rabbit that he found in a terrible state under his porch. He nursed it back to health and named it Toby, turning it into his apparently much-loved pet.

And then started a website threatening to eat it unless people donated a sum total of $50,000 to keep the rabbit alive.

And you know what? They did.

But was that the end? Ooooooooh no. Now he's threatening to eat the thing unless enough people buy the book he wrote on the subject, or enough of his merchandise in general. And I mean merchandise as in T-shirts, baseball caps, coffee mugs, throw pillows, posters ... even a cookbook, for pity's sake.

Please see SaveToby.com for details. I am not making this up.

The logic of this thing baffles me. People are really willing to allow themselves to be played this way? For some guy who's obviously only doing it to make a staggering amount of money? There are really people out there this stupid? Seriously? This is worse than cutoffmyfeet.com!

Personally, I'd like to see him put in the position where he has to eat the goddamn rabbit. Watch him be totally unable to do it, or be outed as the cruellest PT Barnum motherfucker on earth.

Edit: According to Snopes, it's all a hoax and the money goes to an animal shelter. Still, people are being taken in by that? Surely there are more legitimate ways to solicit animal shelter donations? Hell, I'd have donated to whatever shelter helped fix Toby up in the first place, had I any money to do so...