Archive for the 'Working hard or hardly working' Category

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 [...]

Adding parent to my resume

I was going to blog about this article in the On Balance blog on the Washington Post’s website. Then I worked a 12 hour day and I thought, maybe blogging about work today isn’t the best idea. But I’m a wild and crazy gal, so here goes.
I actually saw something about this a while back [...]

Survivor’s Guilt

We had layoffs in my department at work today. I still have a job, but a woman who I consider to be a friend was not so lucky.
I’m so glad I worked from home today. Because remember my hormones? I so would have cried in front of all of my co-workers. And I hate it [...]

Phlew **tongue out, spit flying**

I probably shouldn’t be writing in my blog today because I’m in a shitty mood. And sometimes when I’m in a shitty mood I say [or in this case write] things I may not really mean. Or at least may want to take back tomorrow. But nevertheless I’m writing.
First, I’m finally coming off of my [...]