Category: the office
Working on The Weekend

Consider this rant more than anything because as I sit in front of the computer screen as the beautiful sun shines through the windows. I think back to yesterday to when it all happened and still can’t believe I agreed (let alone came in) on a Saturday to work. Something about working on the weekend that sucks everything out of [...]

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How To Lay Someone Off

People are getting laid off daily during the recession and I’ve mentioned some tips on How To Stay Invisible. Now over at Wired they broke down the top 4 contents of how to lay off someone – or tell tall signs that you might be getting fired. While most are pretty standard: 1) Predictability 2) Understanding 3) Empowerment 4) Compassion [...]

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The Workplace is High School All Over Again

In life we go from Elementary – Junior High – High School – College and then into the work force. It would ‘seem’ that when you go through these periods in our life we would keep going yet when we our job we find everything returns to high school level. Everything from the cliques, jocks and nerds. Cliques You see [...]

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Co-Workers The Second Family

I’ve been thinking about this for quite some time. Specially recently with the country heavy into recession. We work hard – or at least some of us. We do our job and we do it well – again at least some of us. So, when I was posed by my family about possible vacations to take this year I had [...]

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Co-Workers Desks Gets Apple Pranked

Over at Gizmodo they posted a great image of co-workers desk getting pranked with the introduction: One day late last summer, Flickr member jpegsrock returned to work from his vacation to find his cubicle just a little different, courtesy of his loving coworkers. They say images speak louder than words: Very similar to the top 10 things to do a [...]

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Spreadsheet of Doom

Image via Wikipedia When I wrote the introduction to my boss I mentioned the spreadsheet of doom. Allow me to go into detail a little bit about it. What my boss has done has put down each employee’s name, the date and how many minutes late. My boss’s office makes sure that each employee comes by his office so he [...]

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