Category: Professional

  • Bad Manager

    “As of this moment you’re no longer employed at [insert company name here].” The five minute dead man walking down to the dungeonous lair of the Human Resources office had not prepared me for these words, uttered so plainly and unapologetically from my then manager of several years, despite the Employee Improvement Plan (EIP) I’d…

  • It’s Control-V! Really?!?!?!

    “OMG! Really people? It’s Control-V, please!!!” As many other bloggers, there are times when I have to tread lightly. Religion. Politics. Child rearing. Education. Walking across the street. Yeah, if it’s a subject, you’re bound to piss someone off by commenting on it. But nothing is more dangerous, perhaps, in the general sense, and in…

  • Wagon Conundrum

    I can never remember if it’s getting on the wagon or falling off the wagon. Anyway, long and short of it, yesterday I had a wagon based event. It all started out innocently enough. I was working–the literal kind one does to earn their daily bread–on a project that should have been complete a month…