Hey, all; Happy and Healthy Friday – So, I’m actually typing this out at work on Thursday, as it’s one of those rare moments where I actually have a true moment that’s no devoted entirely to answering yet another goddamn … Continue reading Job Rants Thread – 10/15/2021 – Big Wheel, Big Lunch

Hey, all; Happy and Healthy Friday – With two hours left in my day, yesterday, I was informed that, for all intents and purposes, I was to be the boss; at least for today. Furthermore, not only would it be … Continue reading Job Rants Thread – 10/8/2021 – Holding Down The Fort

Hey, all; Happy and Healthy Friday – Well, my dear Workados, we find ourselves in the throes of yet another Fall season. Now, I don’t know what that means for you; but for me, it means, changing leaves, brisk mornings, … Continue reading Job Rants Thread – 10/1/2021 – Fall Fashions

Hey, all; Happy and Healthy Friday – As the title may have indicated. I’m having a bit of bad week. You’ve had those, too, I assume. You know the kind: Where things just seem to not work out, everything that … Continue reading Job Rants Thread 9/24/2021 – Just A Bad Week

Hey, all; Happy and Healthy Friday – Our offices have thin walls. I’ve known about this for as long as we’ve been in our building, but it’s not something I ever gave much thought to. Due to a weird combination … Continue reading Job Rants Thread – 9/17/2021 – Good Neighbors

Hey, all; Happy and Healthy Friday. So, for reasons not worth going into, here, I am writing this after having slept for 12 hours, and therefore, have little-to-no-time to write anything of substance before this needs to go out. (Substance; … Continue reading Job Rants Thread – 9/10/2021 – (A Well-Rested) Open Table

Hey, all; Happy and Healthy Friday – Hey, hey, whaddaya say, this Monday’s Labor Day! For those of you reading this who don’t live in the U.S. our Labor Day has been observed in the country on some level since … Continue reading Job Rants Thread – 9/3/2021 – A Day, Laboring

Hey, all; Happy and Healthy Friday – First off, let me just thank you all for the birthday wishes last week. I mostly just brought it up in relation to the discussion topic, but it’s very much appreciated, all the … Continue reading Job Rants Thread – 8/27/2021 – Too Damn Hot

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