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

  Hey, all; Happy Friday. And for those of you living in the U.S. Happy Black Friday. And for those of you living in the U.S. who would, of your own volition, partake in Black Friday: In pace recquiescat.   … Continue reading Job Rants Thread – 11/29/2019 – Post-Pig-Out-Consumer-ama!

  Hey, all; Happy Fri–AAA AA AAAA AAA AA AA AAA A AAAA AAA AAA AA AAA AAAA AAAAAAA AA AAAA AAAAAA AA AAAA AAA AAA A AA AAAA AAA AAA A AAAA AAA AAA AAA AA AAAA   AAA … Continue reading Job Rants Thread 11/22/2019 – Just A Long, Continuous Scream

  Hey, all; Happy Friday-   So, how about that “Arctic Blast,” huh, Americados? Man, it sure must have sucked to have to have been out in that, all week, am I right? Surely, no one here has to deal … Continue reading Job Rants Thread – 11/16/2019 – So Very Cold

  Hey, all; Happy Friday-   Not much from me this week; playing catch-up and anything that set me off this week has already settled into a dull ache, so I leave it all to you. The floor’s open, the … Continue reading Job Rants Thread – 11/8/2019 – Open Table

  Hello, kiddies!     It’s your old pal, the Gimp’d Keeper, back with another chance to discuss the scariest thing, you can imagine! What?! No, this isn’t the Politics Dread, I’m talking about your weekly slob rants! Problems with a co-lurker? Getting frustrated with … Continue reading Job Screams Thread – 11/1/2019 – A Dead Man’s Party

  Hey, all; Happy Friday –   First of all, thanks for all the great responses last week. As always, it’s wonderfully interesting hearing everyone’s stories. I’ve noticed that some of you have been concerned that your posts go on … Continue reading Job Rants Thread – 10/25/2019 – Healthy, Wealthy And…Wise?

  Hey, all; Happy Friday –   At my job, the median age of our employees is mid-30’s at most. Despite this, according to our stats, we have the largest single call-out and tardiness rate in the entire company. It’s … Continue reading Job Rants Thread – 10/18/2019 – Tardiness Not Tolerated

  Hey, all; Happy Friday –   Another week, another 40 people in and out of my office. I’ve been seeing people basically up until quitting time since Monday. I’ve written so many reports, I think I may be starting … Continue reading Job Rants Thread – 10/11/2019 – Open Table