leafing through » Work

Channeling my inner artist

Leaf — Fri, 05 Aug 2011 13:02:57 +0000

I think half my job is occupied by meetings to nowhere. Today, we had one such meeting where everyone left going, “WTF, if that wasn’t the most useless meeting.” Here’s how I occupied my time. A car alarm went off …

Red Line to….

Leaf — Fri, 15 Jul 2011 13:15:09 +0000

I’m on a crowded metro car heading into work one morning. The A/C is broken, the heat is climbing and the air is stuffy. It’s bad, but not as bad as going home the previous day on a packed car …

It was a nice break while it lasted

Leaf — Fri, 08 Apr 2011 22:48:04 +0000

I went back to work this week. They told me about the exciting events that happened while I was out. Then they told me that I was not to take anymore vacations in the future during the busy season. I …

Exhausting

Leaf — Fri, 18 Mar 2011 02:25:32 +0000

Working with unqualified employees is exhausting. My entire team including my management cannot use Excel. They come up with multiple ways to present iterations of similar information and I’m left coming up with multiple tables to satisfy their ridiculous, oftentimes, …

Dead Grass

Leaf — Fri, 07 Jan 2011 01:28:55 +0000

I don’t mean to sound ungrateful to have a job but some days I just wear thin. I get a headache from dealing with dumbasses for 10 hours straight. I was sitting in one manager’s office because she wanted to …

Ho ho hum

Leaf — Wed, 15 Dec 2010 21:59:01 +0000

I went to our (mandatory) office holiday party today. I ate no more than $10 worth of food. I chit chatted. Then I left after an hour. It wasn’t even worthy of getting seconds. And who doesn’t go for seconds …

Bah humbuggy

Leaf — Wed, 24 Nov 2010 21:02:24 +0000

My office holiday party this year is at Union Jack’s and it’s $25! 1) The food is bad. 2) $25!? What are they serving?? I paid, of course. Like the lemming that I am. Must do the yearly mingle to …

Telework

Leaf — Fri, 08 Oct 2010 12:25:10 +0000

I am teleworking today. I sit at home in front of my computer, cell phone by my side and check my email and do my oh so complicated work right in the company of the chinchillas and the calming hum …

A trip down memory lane

Leaf — Sat, 02 Oct 2010 02:18:20 +0000

I ran into a high school classmate at work this week. It was like an instant flashback to way back when, years and years ago. Has it been that many years?! Just for background, I was never fond of my …

Metro Madness

Leaf — Fri, 09 Jul 2010 10:42:46 +0000

This week the Metro has been more unreliable than usual. Wednesday evening, the trains were so packed I got pushed out when I stepped out to let people off and couldn’t get back on. I didn’t try that hard either …