Archive for the 'Working hard or hardly working' Category

Work snafus

Have you ever been at work, trying to keep your eyelids open as you intently listen to a never-ending conference call when somebody slips up and accidentally misspeaks. Saying something that just cracks you up? Something that makes you hit the mute button so you can laugh out loud in silence?
My personal favorite is when [...]

How to annoy me reason #458

Wanna know how to really annoy me?
IM me with “Can you call me please?”
Seriously?!? How lame is that? If you want to talk to me on the phone then call me. Don’t IM me to tell me to call you.
And then, when I totally ignore your IM because you’re a damn fool and I don’t [...]

The downside of working from home

My company allows me to work from home two days a week. I cannot tell you how much that rocks. But I do have one problem with it. The phone.
See in the office I have to dial a ‘9′ before I dial the number I want to call. And, of course, at home I don’t [...]

Mommyhood in the workplace

A couple days ago there was an interesting post over at Work It, Mom!. In the post Coming out of the closet… as a mom, Nataly wrote about a couple of moms who keep their mommyhood private in the workplace. They feel they lose credibility. This reminded me of a job interview I had thirteen [...]