I am sitting here on the last day of the quarter waiting for an order to book so I can have a respectable commission paycheck next month – ahhhhhh, the joys of sales. It got me thinking a bit about my job and the rest of the jobs that fill out the corporate roster. From [...]
I just endured a meeting at work today that was 40 solid minutes of nonsense. My manager went on and on about sweet-baby-jesus-knows-what and everyone listening had a mix of confusion and annoyance on their face. He opened it up to the audience and looked over to me for input. “What do you think” he [...]
“Success” in America has less to do with actual talent than any time in recent history. We have forsaken competence, responsibility and intelligence in our country and replaced those attributes with shallow illusions of each. It has been all around me lately in my workplace, in popular entertainment, and watching the government in action. [...]
I recently posed this questions to one of my coworkers: If you were married would you rather have your husband go to a sales conference or a guys weekend in Vegas? Her answer: unequivocally – guys weekend in Vegas. People are absolutely shameless at our company events. I just had my annual work conference (which [...]
After college I thought that things were going to be different with my life… I was heading into the “REAL” world. I was merging into the career fast lane filled with focused intelligent professionals who would stop at nothing to get the job done. Its not. Post college work is more like being in the [...]
Even though I am a self proclaimed sloth I have had at least a part time job since I was 15. Anything that I am doing for money will eventually become (at least sometimes) something that I inherently dislike. Even if I was the oil-boy for the Tropicana Girls Bikini Team the alarm would go [...]
I work in a salt mine… Actually, I used to work in a salt mine. Wait… that’s not true either. The term salt mine was coined by my brother about 6 years ago when I was working at a shitty call center grinding through my 7-4 shift Tuesday through Saturday slinging Direct TV equipment. He was visiting me for [...]
I am so happy to be living in the era that I exist in right now but there are things about the mechanisms and customs of life that seem to be built solely to piss me off. I have been accused of being a procrastinator or lazy because I don’t want to get my dry cleaning, buy stuff for [...]