I started a new job last month. I am trying so fucking hard to stay positive about it and try not to pick holes and generally ignore the scars left by my last workplace. But my manager is, to put it most succinctly, worrying ( Read more... )

Right now, my job=not good. This being the millionth job where I actually like what I do (or should be doing) but have to work for completely corrupt fuck-ups who get to their jobs purely through the illusion of charm or a real dose of nepotism, it's brought on a bit of an existential crisis. While I was looking for a new job online today, I ( Read more... )

If y'all happen to remember, they offered me a paid job running the food coop (and whatever other crap they could burden my with) but I turned it down. Well, they found someone else to come take over and qu'elle surprise, she's an idiot ( Read more... )

On my walk to work I pass:

1 of each: park, train station, Mercedes dealer, arthouse video rental store, English bakery, Argentinian steakhouse, canal, shop selling nothing but pink stuff, shop selling record sleeves as art, shop selling expensive wooden toys, West Indian grocer

2 of each: playgrounds, French bakeries, strip clubs, churches, ( Read more... )

A month after I graduated from college, my friend and I decided to take a road trip from NYC to the south, inspired by our studies of the civil rights movement. One of the places we decided was vital to go to was St. Helena Island, South Carolina as it was the location of the first freedom school and has nurtured the totally distinct Gullah culture ( Read more... )

Today at my brand new job, an incredibly interesting exchange took place. A woman who I haven't met yet comes into the office at 5pm after finishing a two day-long training. Another woman in the office asks:

How was the training?
The training was good but the venue was the pits!
Really, where was it?
It was at some place off Bethnal Green Road.It ( Read more... )