You are a local candidate for employment, driving from your house, in your car. And you show up in my office for your interview half an hour early? REALLY?!?!?!

When you show up for an interview that early, you hang out in your car until you're at a more reasonable 10 minutes early. Everybody knows that!!!

I have a lot going on today. I have three ( Read more... )

(At least those in the U.S.)



Indeed.com

Indeed found me my last 3 jobs.

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It is currently the middle of the afternoon and I am not at work. Instead I am at the Brentwood Starbucks enjoying a Pike's Place and my 2 hours of free wi-fi.

It is raining but I don't care. My afternoon is still lovely.
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Spinning down 12 flights of stairs (i.e., 24 left-turns) into the basement? In the middle of the workday? And then just sitting there waiting for the tornado warning to lift? Adds a touch of surreal to the day.

Just sayin.

Why is it like 20 below in this office today?!? CHRIST!

Just now I got up from my desk, took 5 steps and then stopped up short because I couldn't remember what I got up for.

I stood there trying to remember. I twirled in a slow circle. I meandered back to my cube. I stood in the cube. I twirled slowly in the cube. I looked around to see if anything would trigger. Finally my eyes rested on company ( Read more... )

 Dooce changed the CRM system without telling anybody (CRM = Customer Relationship Management, i.e., everything having to do with our customers). Gee, thanks guys. But I finally managed to stumble on the piece I was looking for in its new location, so ok ( Read more... )

 Hey ladies! His AREA is CLOSED.

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An online friend of mine is interested in making the leap from retail to office work. I advised her to try temping. Temping is how I moved from retail to office work, and it's responsible for every good career opportunity I've had. After I gave this advice, all the lessons I've learned over my years of temping started to flood my brain. So here ( Read more... )

I'm sick. I've been denying it and I've been fighting it off, but I have been felled. Ace has been coughing and sneezing for a couple of days and now I am, too. Woke up *multiple* times last night in order to hack up a lung and get a cough drop. Sneeze, snot, coughcoughcough, sneeze, snot, cough, snot.

Even though Ace got symptoms first, I don't ( Read more... )