Hey, all; Happy and Healthy Friday – Hope everyone’s doing well, this week. I know I am, because we celebrated a birthday. this week: Mine! Not only that, but I gave myself the best present I could possibly think of: … Continue reading Job Rants Thread – 8/20/2021 – Office Birthday

Hey, all; Happy and Healthy Friday…All things considered. Yup, it’s Friday the 13th again, and you know what that means: Not a lot, really. I mean, unless your place of employment is a summer camp, or if your company’s HR … Continue reading Job Rants Thread – 8/13/2021 – This Thread’s Got A Death Curse

Hey, all; a Happy and Healthy Friday – Yup. You’re reading that right, it’s the first Open Table in damn near two years. For those of you who don’t know, that’s where you’re invited to grouse about anything and everything … Continue reading Job Rants Thread – 8/6/2021 – Open Table

Hey all; Healthy Friday – Once again, I’m dismayed to admit that this week’s post comes to you from a place of extreme fatigue and damn-near complete apathy; though. rest-assured it has nothing to do with either yourselves or this … Continue reading Job Rants Thread – 7/30/2021 – Extracurriculars

Hey, all; Healthy Friday – I don’t know about you all, my dear Workados, but this week has been very, very long one for me, and, I’ll level with you; made me completely forget about this week’s column. Therefore, it … Continue reading Job Rants Thread – 7/23/2021 – TL;DW

Hey, all; Healthy Friday – As I end this, my first full week back, I am again left to wonder: Why is it, with so many devices being rendered “smart,” I’m typically left feeling dumber for it? Not to sound … Continue reading Job Rants Thread – 7/16/2021 – Working Smarter(?)

Hey, all; Healthy Friday – How’s everyone doing, this fine Friday? Welcome once again to the Job Rants Thread, Classic Edition. Yup, that’s right, as our regular customers (all twelve of you) can tell you, I, like so many others, … Continue reading Job Rants Thread – 7/9/2021 – And We’re Back?

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