Hey, all; Healthy Friday –   As everyone well knows, many states began to implement their soft rollout policies for certain businesses this past week; and, so far, the results are…   …We’ll see.   Anyway, between every else … Continue reading Job Rants Thread – 5/29/2020 – Working From Home X: The Waiting Game

  Hey, all; Healthy Friday-   On Monday, Massachusetts governor Charlie Baker unveiled the four-stage plan for reopening the state. In this upcoming first stage. some businesses, such as construction services and hair salons are being permitted to operate in … Continue reading Job Rants Thread – 5/22/2020 – Working From Home Edition IX: The Reopening?

  Hey, all;  Healthy Friday –   As per CNN, another 3 million Americans filed for unemployment last week; with that number not expected to go down any time soon. I know that we try to keep it light, here, … Continue reading Job Rants Thread – 5/15/2020 – Working From Home Edition VIII: – The Destruction of Jared-Syn

  Hey, all; Healthy Friday –   Hope everyone’s keeping well, both physically and mentally. I can’t speak for the rest of you, but I know that the latter has been much more a problem than the former. While I’ve … Continue reading Job Rants Thread – 5/8/2020 – Working From Home Edition VII: Workin’ To The Music II: Breaking the Silence

  Hey, all; Healthy Friday –   So,, the title should really say it all. My internal clock is utterly wonked from this whole damn situation, and I need to reset it, desperately. I currently have no capacity for abstract … Continue reading Job Rants Thread – 5/1/2020 – Job Rants Thread: Working From Home Edition VI: …Yeah, I Got Nothin’

  Hey, all; Healthy Friday-   As ever, I hope you all are keeping well, both physically and mentally, and if working, then keeping busy. As I brought up in a previous post, I’ve basically caught up with all of … Continue reading Job Rants Thread – 4/14/2020 – Working From Home V: Flattening the Curve

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