End of Contract

I am then braced by Portia and Carol.
Carol snarls, “Well, you got your revenge against Denny. As a result, now we have no jobs.”
I sigh and lecture the ladies, “I did good work for the Lozenge Corporation and for Denny. Denny then fired me, refused to sign me out of a government security clearance, refused to pay me for the last two weeks of my work at the Lozenge Corporation and, at least, made it very difficult for me to get another job. I complained, to the State Labor Department about my missing last two weeks of pay, my accrued pay in lieu of vacation and, as it later turned out, a couple of dollars of miscellaneous. The State Labor Department then summoned lawyers for the Lozenge Corporation into a State Labor Department hearing. The lawyers for the Lozenge Corporation then cited habeus corpus, ipso facto, a fortiori and possibly more. The State Labor Department guy said, not in Latin, ‘Cut the jive and tell me if Jason Marr got paid the money he was due, or I shut the Lozenge Corporation down.’”
The lawyers for the Lozenge Corporation then said, not in Latin, “The Lozenge Corporation is going to pay, but it will take a couple, three weeks.”
The State Labor Department guy said, “It will take 24 hours, or I shut the Lozenge Corporation down.”
The lawyers for the Lozenge Corporation then said, not in Latin, “But, but.”
The State Labor Department guy said, “Butter me no buts, it will take no more than 24 hours for Jason Marr to get paid, or I shut the Lozenge Corporation down.”
The lawyers for the Lozenge Corporation then said, not in Latin, “We got a strong case against Jason Marr for piracy on the high seas.”
The State Labor Department guy said, “It will take no more than 24 hours for Jason Marr to get paid, or I shut the Lozenge Corporation down.”
(You notice how the State Labor Department guy stayed focused.)
Carol sighs and says, “As a computer programmer, they say you got it. As a stand up comic, you don’t got it.”
Wounded to the core, I ask, “Do you think that my forcing Denny and the Lozenge Corporation corporation to pay me what they owed me, cost you ladies your jobs?”
Portia says, “You deny telling the feds that Denny’s Project Manager was faking test results on equipment that was turned over to the government?”
I sigh and lecture the ladies, “The government found out that at least one of Denny’s Project Managers was faking test results on equipment turned over to the government. I would have testified against Denny’s Project Manager, Matt, but I didn’t know the Latin term for ass hole, at that time. Only later did I learn that the Latin term is. ‘æs hoʊl.’ however, the moment had passed.”
Carol says, “I would never use the term ass hole for Denny’s Project Manager, Matt, even if Matt is an ass hole. However, when Matt and others crashed, Portia and I lost our jobs.”
I lecture, “I did good work for the Lozenge Corporation and for Denny. I did not work on what they call the mine detector project. Denny then fired me, and removed me from any and all access to the mine detector project. However, I am good at programming digital computers and I then did get a temp job at Digital Scientific Specialties. I then analyzed why the mine detection device design, that Denny stole from another engineer, didn’t work in all kinds of soil. Since the device was a mine detector, it was very important that the device did work properly, in all kinds of soil. It was literally a matter of life or death for the military guys trying to clear buried mines.”