Hey, all; Healthy Friday – And so, here we are, at the 69th and last week of the JRT Working From Home Edition; as I, like so many others, have been called back into the workplace through a combination of … Continue reading Job Rants Thread – 7/2/2021 – Working From Home LXIX: An Ending…And A New Beginning

Hey, all; Healthy Frrrrrrruck it – Forty people. I’ve met with over forty people this week, alone;(that’s as many as four tens, and yes, that’s terrible) and the number’s climbing. People want out, and they’re not being shy about it. … Continue reading Job Rants Thread – 6/25/2021 – Working From Home LXVIII: Crawling Out Of Our Holes

Hey, all; Healthy Friday – How are you all doing; good? I hope so. The world is slowly but surely getting back to itself: cases are down, masks are coming off, and businesses have had just about enough of this … Continue reading Job Rants Thread – 6/18/2021 – Working From Home LXVII: Expense Report

Hey, all; Healthy Friday – Nothing really from me, this week beyond the usual gripes and groans that have been evergreen at my position for almost a damn decade at this point, so what’s the use? (Plus, if I’m being … Continue reading Job Rants Thread –6/11/2021 – Working From Home LXVI: Keeping On

Hey, all; Healthy Friday – As things [very] slowly and [kind of] surely get back to [what even is] normal [anymore], around the country and the world, more and more people who have been forced to work from home for … Continue reading Job Rants Thread –6/4/2021 – Working From Home LXV: Return Prep

Hey, all; Healthy Friday – And so, as I reported last week in an uptick in productivity and applications for our service, this week do I report on the inevitable burn out that comes with it. To put it short … Continue reading Job Rants Thread – 5/28/2021 – Working From Home LXIV: Burn Out

Hey, all; Healthy Friday – So, now with more and more people (though still far from enough) getting vaccinated and mask restrictions being loosened around the country, much of the populous is ready and raring to return to normalcy. Restaurants … Continue reading Job Rants Thread – 5/21/2021 – Working From Home LXIII: Productivity Spike

Hey, all; Healthy Friday – Yesterday, as many of you well-know, the CDC released new guidelines involving masks which stated, in-short, that if you’ve had both your shots, you should feel free to go maskless in all public areas. Cool, … Continue reading Job Rants Thread – 5/14/2021 – Working From Home LXII: Casual Day

Hey, all; Healthy Friday – Had a column idea, wrote a column, column got erased; now I’m writing this. How’s this for a sub-topic, this week: Working from home with the crappy loaner equipment from your office that you didn’t … Continue reading Job Rants Thread – 5/7/2021 – Working From Home LXI: Equipment Failure

Hey all; Healthy Friday – Last week, I, along with a relieving and increasing number of Americans, got my second shot; and like so many, it proceeded to knock me completely on my ass for the following three days. I … Continue reading Job Rants Thread – 4/30/2021 – Working From Home LX: Coping Mechanisms

Hey, all; Healthy Friday – Not a lot to say. Still recovering from my second poke on Wed. but, on the whole, generally decent. As such. it’s all on you guys, this week. As ever, have a safe and productive … Continue reading Job Rants Thread – 4/23/2021 – Working From Home LIX: In Recovery

Hey, all; Healthy Friday – Yeah, still not a whole lot to say from me, this week. Things have been holding steady here with no major shake-ups either on the health, or employment fronts. My neck of the woods shows … Continue reading Job Rants Thread – 4/9/2021 – Working From Home LVII: Auto-Pilot II: The Sequel

Hey, all; Healthy Friday – Full disclosure: I did next to nothing, this week. Oh, I was clocked in and everything, but in terms of actual work? Not a whole hell of a lot. I’m not even certain as to … Continue reading Job Rants Thread – 4/2/2021 – Working From Home LVI: Auto-Pilot

Hey, all; Healthy Friday – Hope everyone’s doing well. For reasons rather mundane and boring to get into, I myself was fortunate enough to be able to get my first shot, this week; the Moderna one. I can’t speak for … Continue reading Job Rants Thread – 3/26/2021 – Working From Home LV: Poked

Hey, all; Healthy Friday – It was around this time, last year, that the true reality of our current situation really began to set in. Oh, that’s not to say that I was blind to the world around me, or … Continue reading Job Rants Thread – 3/19/2021 – Working From Home LIV: One Year Down

Hey, all; Healthy Friday – Yup, it’s Friday again and I…Honestly have no idea how it got here so fast. I’m serious; while I can remember a few things that happened, this week, I really don’t have any concept of … Continue reading Job Rants Thread – 3/12/2021 – Working From Home LIII: HCIF – Holy Crap, It’s Friday

Hey, all; HealthyOOOW – Yeah, pulled something yesterday; making it hard to type. So. that’s all for me, today. Rant away, my babies. Rant and rave; I’m going to find some Ben Gay. As ever, have a safe and productive … Continue reading Job Rants Thread – 3/5/2021 – Working From Home LII: Column Called On Account Of Injury

Hey, all; Healthy Friday – For whatever reasons, probably a combination of it being the end of the month; and February’s having been, somehow, always busy for us, this week could charitably have been called a shitshow. Everyone needed our … Continue reading Job Rants Thread – 2/26/2021 – Working From Home LI: Good Bad Week

Hey, all; Healthy Friday – So, remember in the past few weeks, I’ve gone on about my sleep cycles, how being tired has really screwed me up, and how the pandemic hasn’t helped? Would you surprised to know that such … Continue reading Job Rants Thread – 2/19/2021 – Working From Home L: …It Has A Name

Hey, all; Healthy Friday – So…You feel like reading this, today? Do you ever? I only ask because, this week at least, I don’t feel like writing it. Make no mistake, while I freely admit that it’s hard to come … Continue reading Job Rants Thread – 2/12/2021 – Working From Home XLIX: Productivity Drop