Archive for the ‘job travails’ Category
Friday, December 15th, 2006
"You're driving me insane and I will NEVER give you a URL of a site I'm working on again. Seriously."
"No, I'm not kidding, a two-drink maximum? How is that a party?"
"If you don't quit poking around on the site, I'm going to block your IP address permanently."
"Would it help if ...
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Thursday, December 14th, 2006
One of the owners, the one who I mainly work for, is out sick today and won't be coming to the Christmas party.
Two of the sales people are out sick as well.
And Mickey, the guy who sits up here with me, hasn't shown up today at all.
Tomorrow, two-thirds of the ...
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Tuesday, December 5th, 2006
Fun things at work:
Hearing I'm going to need to spend way too much money on programming customization, yet knowing my boss will want it anyway, for less. (And hearing... But.. uh.. why can't YOU just do it?)
Working on a computer in a room that's around 60 FUCKING degrees. (My hands ...
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Tuesday, November 7th, 2006
Usually he sits toward the front. He wears dress slacks, but no tie and always seems like he only brushed the front part of his hair. He nods often, asks questions constantly and sits sideways, eyeballing the room, as if looking for a prospect.
And he sat in front of me ...
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Monday, October 16th, 2006
I start work today.
I'm a little bit nervous, as evidenced by the insane number of nightmares I've been having lately.
Last night's, that I was up at wendy's (don't ask), and after dropping her off, two girls jumped in my car. I turned on my car alarm, but they were relatively ...
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Friday, October 6th, 2006
I had a crazy dream last night that my sister got remarried to her ex-husband. It was in a small castle-type place, and there were only a few rows of people, but it was lovely and they were both really happy. I woke up excited to blog about how happy ...
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Thursday, September 28th, 2006
When my sister and I were younger, and lived at home, we shared a bathroom. It wasn't the only bathroom in the house, but it was the one where we kept our cosmetics and showered, etc., and it had the distinction of being the only room that was "ours" which ...
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Thursday, September 21st, 2006
I realize what with all the other good things going on in the world [Hugo Chavez calling Bush "Satan," Saddam Hussein's trial being the freakshow of the year, E.Coli in Spinach and iTunes coming out with V7 and making the damn icon freaking candy-ass blue], none of you have thought... ...
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Friday, August 11th, 2006
I pose to you this question:
Which is worse, having too much work.. or none at all?
I now rescind everything I said about being bored in my unemployment. Those were the days people.. the DAYS.
I suddenly have two huge contract jobs who both want me in their offices every day.
And their ...
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Friday, December 23rd, 2005
I just finished putting in the edits for the mammoth book.
It's 3AM and I have to be up in about four hours... and this damn piece of shit is taking forever to upload to our server.
There was more shopping today... oh, and cousin, I got mom's present from you, for ...
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