When patrons ask us why we don't have THREE copies of the latest James Patterson, will we tell them it's because we had to spend the money to buy new toilet paper dispenser that lock--because people were stealing the toilet paper rolls out of our public bathrooms?

If one more person I work with--who all know I'm working 3 part-time jobs--asks me why I didn't take a vacation this year, I may have to start getting stabby.

Had two funny conversations recently about a possible stalker at work ( Read more... )

Perhaps one of the wisest, most unflappable Managing Editors in publishing once had a sign on her door:

A screw-up on your part does not constitute an emergency on mine.

This is my mantra today, as the head of another department once again grapples with the fact that I a) don't work for him, and b) can't read his mind (though the latter may be by ( Read more... )

You know things are getting pretty bad in the office when a co-worker leaving on vacation offers you an "emergency contact number ( Read more... )