Hey, all; Healthy Friday –   Full disclosure: I completely spaced on what day it actually was. I would have bet a paycheck on it actually being Thursday, today. I’m told that this is becoming an increasingly common problem in … Continue reading Job Rants Thread – 4/17/2020 – Working From Home Edition IV: Through the Portal of Time

  Hey, all; Healthy Friday –   6.6 million Americans filed for unemployment last week, bringing the pandemic total to over 17 million Not much else more to say this week, is there? Everyone keep your chin up. as best … Continue reading Job Rants Thread – 4/10/2020 -Working From Home Edition III: Ascencion

  Hey all; Healthy Friday –   3.3 million. 3.3 million; that’s “million” with an “ill,” have applied for unemployment in the wake of the recent outbreak; with that number likely to rise. Back around 50,000 years ago, when I … Continue reading Job Rants Thread – 4/3/2020 – Social (Distance) Networking

  Hey, all; Healthy Friday –   Hope everyone’s going well. This will mark the end of my first week of working from home, and…Well, I’m not going to complain about being bored, because I’ll likely miss it when things … Continue reading Job Rants Thread – 3/27/2020 -Working From Home Edition II: Retribution

Hey all; Healthy Friday – So, after a very frustrating delay, my company finally put measures in place so that myself and my colleagues can finally work from home. Without being able to do the in-person interviews that we normally … Continue reading Job Rants Thread – 3/20/2020 – Shutting Down

  Hey, all; Healthy Friday –   So, I thought it might be good this week to talk about the different kind of break rooms that exist in different kind of business–no, of course we’re going to be talking about … Continue reading Job Rants Thread – 3/13/2020 – Special Pandemic Edition!

  Hey, all; Happy Friday –   No much to say, this week save for that I’ve been getting saddled with even more work due to so many of my co-workers being out “sick” this week, (I will have plenty … Continue reading Job Rants Thread – 3/6/2020 – Open Table

  Hey, all; Happy Friday –   Hope everyone’s doing well, this week. By the time this goes up Yours Truly will have been at PAX East, and therefore, not have a whole lot to rant about.  (Aside from not … Continue reading Job Rants Thread – 2/28/2020 – Up, Up Down, Down, Left, Right, Left, Right, B, A.

  Hey, all; Happy Friday –   Hope everyone’s doing well. Not much for me to say this week; paperwork has seemingly caused all of my creative juices to coagulate into a kind of dull jam filling every empty orifice … Continue reading Job Rants Thread – 2/21/2020 – Multipurpose 8.5 x 11

  Hey, all; Happy Friday –   Hope all of you are doing well. Me? I’m stone sober, and yet I somehow feel very drunk at the same time. Anyone ever feel like that; especially when one’s at their work … Continue reading Job Rants Thread – 2/14/2020 – Open Table

  Hey, all; Happy Friday –   So, believe it or not, I’m actually writing this at work. (Don’t worry, I’m not hectically on the clock) I’m doing my best to multitask as I both bang this bad boy out, and … Continue reading Job Rants Thread – 2/7/2020 – Home/Work

Hey, all; Happy Friday –   Hope everyone’s doing well this week. I’m not, but that’s: 1) Neither here nor there, and 2) Hardly news to begin with. Still plugging away, and I hope you’re all doing the same. And … Continue reading Job Rants Thread – 1/31/2020 – Open Table

  Hey, all; Happy Friday –   My boss is gone for 2 months. I have stayed late every night this week. My co-workers have a backlog of work going back to December. They don’t respond to my emails. They … Continue reading Job Rants Thread – 1/24/2020 – Midnight Oil

  Hey, all; Happy Friday –   I don’t know about you, my fellow Workados, but it has been a week for me. Beyond the usual, job-related chaos, I’ve also been getting over a nice, juicy cold, I just found … Continue reading Job Rants Thread – 1/17/2020 – Number Two

  Hey, all; Happy Friday –   …Yeah, I got nothing. There’s this thing that’s been going around the office for over a week, and long-story short, I now understand why Sudafed is so heavily regulated. Oh, and they had … Continue reading Job Rants Thread – 1/10/2020 – Quarantine

  Hey, all; Happy first Friday of a new decade –   As we collectively claw our way back from the Great Borking of 2019, and collectively steel ourselves for whatever these new ’20’s might roar at us. (It feels … Continue reading Job Rants Thread – 1/3/2020 – Resolutions

  Hey, all; Happy Last Friday of 2019 –   Hope everyone had a great holiday got both everything they want and everything they deserve. But now, as the year draws to a close, it falls to us; the great … Continue reading Job Rants Thread – 12/28/2019 – The Crunch II: The Recrunchening

Work just hard enough to not get fired/as the bennies rather suck/ Chained to a desk, long past 8 o’clock/Your social life’s shit outta luck/ Ev’rybody knows, that traffic on the holidays/grinds your commute to a halt/ Though it’s been … Continue reading Job Rants Thread – 12/20/2019 – Holiday Party Edition!

  Hey, all; Happy Friday…The 13th!   Yes, it’s that ever so rare occasion where, as legend would have it, the law of averages takes a dip, everything that can go wrong will, and I try and fail to make … Continue reading Job Rants Thread – 12/13/2019 – Bad Luck Edition

Hey, all; Happy Friday –   Feeling kind of down-in-the-muoth, this week, so I don’t have a lot to say. (Actually, that’s a damn lie; I have plenty to say, but my head is swimming, and, frankly,  I doubt WordPress … Continue reading Job Rants Thread -12/6/2019 – Open Table