It’s official as of today. Got the paperwork and all. Woohoo. My trusty negotiating skills worked!
I wish my hours were actually 9-5.
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Tags: 9-5, employed, nine to five
I own this book. It’s a really helpful book and something that I think I need to reread now that I’m back (officially) in the working world. You’d be amazed at how many things you’d catch yourself doing that this book mentions. Check out the 101 things women do wrong at work. Some are obvious, but others are pretty surprising.
An example of “what not to do.”
Office or living room? Discuss.
I finished my first week of real work this week since the lay off. I think it went pretty well. They’re letting me come back next week so I consider that a WIN.
UPDATE: Project on hold. Not sure when I’ll be returning. Oh well!
Being back at work though this week made me realize just how similar offices are to one another. I’ve worked in all kinds of offices that do all kinds of things, but at the core of it all, they’re all alike.
For instance:
• I’ve never been in an office where they can ever get the temperature right. Either I’m sweating (a rarity) or I’m freezing (the norm). Once again I had to bust out my trusty fingerless gloves to type with.
• Every bathroom has hideous lighting that emphasizes just how deathly tired you feel. I didn’t think the rings under my eyes could look any darker. And do they install some sort of special bulb that highlights all the bright white “stress hairs” on your head? I’m bringing tweezers next week.
• And speaking of bathrooms, it never fails. If you have more than one stall, the handicap stall is always the designated “#2 stall.” Like you don’t know what I’m talking about. If you’re in that one, we all know what you’re doing in there. We all do it. It’s the more private one of the two, to do your 2. Hehe.
• Office coffee is not good, but it’s good enough. It’s free so we drink it. Or at least I do.
• You can get anyone to come to a meeting if you offer them free food. If you feed them, they will come.
• No one ever wants to be the one to change the toner. Partly because we’re not sure how, and partly because we’re too lazy.
• The IT people usually are a bit snarky and and get off on making you feel like a techno-retardo.
Do you guys have any more to add?
Tags: bathroom stall, office etiquette, Office similarities, toner
Tags: Halloween, someecards
No this isn’t going to be another weekly post (hopefully). It’s just that today I’m such a sloth and have nothing exciting to blog about. Do you ever have days like this where it’s just impossible to motivate yourself to even get dressed? I’m having one of those days. Luckily I get to hang out with some friends tonight, so that will hopefully motivate me to shower and get dressed, if they’re lucky.
GIRAFFES! is good too.
Tags: saturday night live, sloth
Thought I’d give a quick shout-out (holla!) to my new favorite coffee shop. My old favorite, Chameleon (karma karma karma Chameeeeeleon!) decided to start closing at 3 every day. WTF? You’re a coffee shop for Peet’s sake! Anyhoo, I now give Nook all of my pocket change. It’s not as close as Chameleon or as quiet, but the coffee is good and they have free WiFi so I’ll take it. I mean a girl can’t blog in her apartment all day. I need to at least pretend like I’m going somewhere and put on real clothes. Even if part of them I slept in.
Check er’ out. I dig the logo.
Tags: Chameleon, Nook Cafe, San Francisco
I’m wearing a shirt today that doubled as my pajama shirt last night. Is that bad? It looks sort of like this one:
And then I got to thinking. Karen, if you had one too, yours would read something like this:
K: Hey! I’m currently having an identity crisis! I don’t know what to beeeeeeeeeee!
Tags: Brunettes have more fun, pajamas, t-shirt
I didn’t think I could heart my iPhone anymore, until I found out today that I can use it to get internet ON MY COMPUTER. Get this. I’m in the coffee shop and of course their WiFi goes down for whatever reason. I’m waiting and waiting and this guy next to me asks if I want to use his iPhone to check my email. I said no thanks because I already had one, but then he showed me how i can plug it into my computer via ethernet cord and get wireless on my computer! He said he could make my phone do it too. So I handed it over and he started programming away. I asked him how he knew how to do all this and he said he used to work at Apple. Offff course he did. But after a few minutes we plugged it in and it worked! I had internet! Do you know what this means?? I can take my laptop anywhere now, like the park! I don’t need no stinkin’ wireless! Oh Apple, you are amazing. I do believe in you! I do! Now if we could just ditch AT&T and those lousy dropped calls, we’d be golden!
If you want to give it a try, here is a link I found that might be helpful: http://reviews.cnet.com/8301-19512_7-10265889-233.html
Saw this on my walk home. Working 1 hour 1 day a week must be tough.
Tags: Wong's driving school
Man I do not miss these.
So it’s come to this. I’m now so desperate for extra cash that I am filling out random opinion surveys that come my way. I just got another one from AOL today in my inbox to fill out my info so that they can send me more surveys and I can get a $5 – yes FIVE DOLLAR- credit on Amazon.com. I’ve also registered for every Plaza Research group email I get that I qualify for. Yet no one seems to contact me. Am I that uninteresting that even my opinion is boring? And I’ve filled out that damn Walgreens survey like 27 times and I have yet to win that $3000! I’m beginning to think it’s fake. I mean who else is as desperate as I am that they also keep every one of their Walgreens receipts so that they can take them home and enter the receipt # online to take a survey?? Well dammit I’m going to keep this up until I win something. I should at least get a consolation prize for as much as I buy at Walgreens. I have given you guys nothing but rave reviews. “Fast, friendly service, readily-available merchandise, short lines.” Now gimme my money!
