Evidently the economy is so bad that my "qualifications" suit factory assembly work. I stuck out the computer-based portion of the job for two days. That entailed me photographing a shitload of jewelry and checking them off a list. I'm talking 8 hours straight of that. Really, it was that mindless and repetitive. Then they told me that I would be ( Read more... )

Fuck you, Office Team. $9.50 an hour, 8:30 to 5:30 with an hour commute for 5 days? That's the best you can do? Really? Why did I even bother going to college?

I could go on for hours like some sort of twisted foster mother (don't say it!) but I'm so stupidly proud of Shryne and how far they've come in the year that I've been with them. The album's almost done, there's TONS to look forward to this year already and it's still only January, and they've been voted the Best Live Indie Act in New England. So ( Read more... )

If I get canned on Friday (my temp contract is up) or anything else goes wrong, I'm going to have a nervous breakdown before the show. Seriously.

You know that times are changing when the 46 year old President of the multi-million dollar business you work for responds to something with an offhanded "Yea, that's pretty gay" as he sends an email from his Blackberry.

I lol'd.

So I pretty much got blindsided by the paper and was asked to resign via email this evening. I sent a lengthy professional response essentially explaining that if they had a problem with me working full time and therefore not being around the office all the time that they perhaps should have told me that when I brought that concern forward before ( Read more... )

So I'm in a large office with a cubicled floorplan and a few offices off to the side. Most of the team (7 people) is trying to fix something. They discover that they need Lucy, our accountant. She is in her office 50 feet away with her door open and phone in good working order when the boss uncustomarily yells across the office ( Read more... )

There was a 4 day stint as a receptionist and now it's at least a week in data entry land for me. Sure it's mindless but it's easy and it's money. No complaints there. I have to wonder if I'll just end up staying with the temp thing until I have enough money to intern in NYC. I've had to turn down 3 offers from Sony already, 2 in NYC and one in LA ( Read more... )

It's my last day over at the leasing office in Plainville. As far as I know, there's nothing lined up at Office Team for me after this so I'm a bit scared. It's not like I have a lot in the way of bills or anything but I have no prospects. I've looked through CareerBuilder, Monster, Craigslist, and half a dozen other hiring agencies (not to mention ( Read more... )

While work's been pretty entertaining with all the outrageous names (the Indian ones are hysterical), walking into an apartment for inspections and finding a dead guy on the floor was definitely not something I read in the job description.