I'm stuck in a pain flare right now. There's nothing new about this, unfortunately, other than the fact that I had a call at work today from a woman stuck in one as well ( Read more... )

One of my (under 30) employees was doing some video game testing on Friday night. I'm not 100% sure why she volunteered to do it (extra money, most likely), since she seemed so discombobulated by the people she was testing with. She ran back into our office to grab a jacket after she'd started the testing, and started talking about how "nerdy" ( Read more... )

Things I hate:
1) My back, my knees, my shoulders, my big toes... basically every part of my body that can potentially throw out.
2) Narcotics. I do not enjoy being high as a kite, even if it does take away the pain.

Things I appreciate:
1) canyonwalker2) My boss. I highly doubt she will actually be able to take care of everything tomorrow with me ( Read more... )

We've been doing a lot of interviews recently, and I've started and let go a few people. One of the main issues I'm having is trying to figure out computer literacy. To wit, it's not just "Can you use Outlook?", but "Can you use multiple systems such as LIMs, Salesforce, Outlook, Excel, Word, and File Share Servers competently enough that I don't ( Read more... )

Dear LinkedIn,

Thank you for suggesting that I might want to connect with the ex-coworker who physically threatened me. I know you have a "no" button for the connection page. Do you have a "never, not even if I would never be able to earn money again" button that I can click instead?

No love,

Hawk


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Tuesday I found a nasty bug in our database, and spent lots of time with my programmer debugging where it came from. Wednesday I started to come down with a cold. Coincidence? I think not!

I've been working from home[1] for the past two days. My stomach wasn't up for much today, so I made myself some beef broth with alphabet pasta:


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When I purchase a photocopy via ILL I do not want to see things such as ( Read more... )

At least, it's cleaning day at the office. As I sprayed my telephone for the third time with 3m Disinfecting Office Cleaner to get the keys back to their proper gray (instead of icky brown), I think of Douglas Adams.

And smile. Because, really, my phone does look like it could start spreading disease soon if it wasn't cleaned.

A client put a book in a FedEx envelope to us, and didn't seal it well enough. The envelope got to us, but it was empty ( Read more... )

Issue: I dislike the Spoons analogy ( Read more... )