Today at the office I convinced a coworker to use his clout to write an email to massage an inter-office political situation I’m trying to alleviate (vague enough for you?), and he started the email by writing, “Dear X, the girls in XYZ department are concerned about…”
The “girls in XYZ department” happen to range a [...]
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Just so you know, I really can’t blog about my customer service job. My company has a corporate blogging policy that prevents us from giving out too much information about how the job works and why, which is why I’m so vague about what I do.
But let’s say, hypothetically, a man came [...]
As of the end of March, I’m quickly approaching job burnout as are many of my fellow employees. We’re all irritable and annoyed and snapping at one another thanks to ridiculous overtime hours and unspecified job expectations from non-existent and/or off-site management. As such, I don’t know whether it’s me imagining personal slights [...]
My workplace was featured on the news today as being an inefficient, cumbersome corporation. Meanwhile, while I take the week off of my actual hourly work, I’ve worked more than ten hours a day on web projects. Feh.
1) As part of my recreational, DIY, negative-thinking-immolation, I agreed to participate in a local spelling bee with a couple of coworkers to benefit the area adult education resource center, LARA. Aforementioned coworker Sally suggested several names for our spelling bee team: a) Spell Or Die, b) Spell Fast, Die Young, and [...]
Today, for the second time, 2 Girls 1 Cup came up in conversation at work. Which is awesome.
Because I Am Dense, A Post
Published January 9th, 2008 in Bloggery, Feminism, Racism, Relationships and Work. 6 CommentsI worked last Saturday with Sally (a sadly unimaginative nickname we will give my coworker in order to protect her privacy), and after a long, lazy morning of donuts and ebay-browsing, we closed the doors to the office at noon. A man slid past us right before 12, and after I was done helping [...]
In Which I Am Merely Thoughtless, Not Stupid, Definitely Not Stupid
Published December 27th, 2007 in Suburbia and Work. 5 CommentsThanks to the unexpected wisdom tooth debacle and the unexpected week off I had to take after getting dry sockets, I had exactly one eight-hour day left to take off around the holidays. I couldn’t take yesterday off since those of us scheduled were needed to cover those who had holiday time. I [...]
The Unbearable Whiteness of Being, featuring not-Cowboy Curtis
Published December 22nd, 2007 in Celebrity, Humor, Racism, Weirdness and Work. 29 CommentsEarly this week I committed a serious faux pas.
It’s funny, really, that through my youth, and then my college years, all the time I was immersed in progressive literature, identity politics and activism, I would find myself in the most diverse environment I’ve enjoyed yet at an entry-level job in whitebread middle America. [...]
When I Say I Thought About Hyphenating, I Was Thinking About Mozilla-Pujols
Published November 17th, 2007 in Chef, Feminism, Marriage and Work. 9 CommentsI opted not to change my last name when Chef and I married a couple of months ago, not that I didn’t consider it. As with many decisions, now that I’m in my martini phase, I didn’t take it too seriously. Although both of our last names are “normal” Anglo-Saxon names, I do [...]
The Holes In My Parachute, Or Why Gentleman Farmerhood Sometimes Appeals To The Jaded
Published October 26th, 2007 in Education, Suburbia and Work. 20 CommentsLa Lubu, guest blogging at Feministe for the week, has two fantastic posts up that have kicked me in the ass and all over the field. In Intersecting Identities she has basically laid out my lack of interest in blogging and political activism over the last couple of years and why it’s so hard [...]
Knowing all the good, tolerant Christians that I do, it’s really a shame to stumble on a story like this one:
A woman who sent her Arab-American boss a threatening note that warned “Remember 9/11″ and “You and your kids will pay” was sentenced Wednesday to eight months in a federal halfway house.
Kia Reid, who described [...]
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