An update to the job situation at work: I am apparently so far low on the totem pole of importance that you’d have to dig 10 feet under just to get to me. So there were all these openings resulting from union concessions and people retiring that I basically had the pick of whatever assignment…

Right on the heels of getting out of debt for the first time in 13 years, I’m now hearing that my old supervisor will be returning to my section this week for the first time in 9 years. When I started working this job he was my first “boss,” and it wasn’t too long before…

I was at my desk working checking my emails when I suddenly felt a hand on my shoulder and jumped 3 feet up in the air. “Ooo, I’m sorry Linkie!” It was Karen, looking very pretty, and very married as usual. “Oh hey, what’s up?” “I was wondering if you could run these names for…

You ever know somebody you hope never ever manages to back you into a corner so they can talk and talk and talk talktalktalktalk till your ears scream out for mercy? That was me yesterday. I’m here minding my own business and doing some data entry, when I get verbally jumped by one of my…