Last day of work today! (Relatively) crazy shit has gone down at Morally Questionable Loan Company these past few days: they updated my computer from Windows 95 to (drumroll) Windows 98; they're forming a subsidiary company that needs a new name (my favorite was "Case Pending Lending"); they're fighting with someone about how much their company is ( Read more... )

WHOO BREAK. I went back to work at Morally Questionable Loan Company (and its 8-hour day of the same Christmas songs repeated at 10-minute intervals.) My soul, it bleeds and grows rich ( Read more... )

omg the library has such inaccurate records. As far as I can tell I send the form saying things, and then the records office just picks random answers. ESPECIALLY about race, that one is ALWAYS wrong. ("OK, this one's going to be .... black.")

If I had a resume for my summer, it would look like this ( Read more... )

On Tuesday, I got a job. Today, I quit that job. So this is a tragic story, the kind you know the ending before you start, like Romeo and Juliet.

I got a job with a fundraising company that works for the children's charity Children International. What I did was stand out in the Loop every day asking people to sign up to sponsor a child in a poor ( Read more... )

So I can't stand my manager at work, but I can't really put my finger on why. I'll think one day that it's because he doesn't do a good job, that he lets people walk over him, and then he'll get it into his head to try and be authoritative and take charge and it SUCKS worse than before. So, really, there's no good place for him ( Read more... )