6
Jan
Posted in Footloose and Freelance | No Comments »
photo credit: nevermindtheend
Let’s talk keyboards. See, I’m working with one—how do you not work with one? It would be almost like working without a computer, and goodness knows how we’d get anything done then!
Anyway, when you’re a freelancer you end up getting put at any number of desks with any number of keyboards. The only thing they have in common, really, is that they all have keys, unless you’re working at a really low-brow sort of institution. Oh, and they’re all dirty as hell. (I apologize for the picture and if it makes you want to throw up, cause it makes me want to throw up, and in fact I am averting my eyes quickly so as not to do so.)
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Tags: buffet chinese food, burritoes, cubicles, dirty gertie, dirty keyboards, e.coli, freelancing, old friends, sauvignon blanc, shrimp foo young, west village
19
Sep
Posted in Stranger Than Fiction | No Comments »
photo credit: morebyless
Regardless of what happened when I got “let go” from my last job, I have always known that I worked with some fabulous people. Smart, funny, sometimes bizarro people of the sort that, when you bring them out to meet other friends, your friends wonder incredulously, “How do you meet such great people?”
Because as we all know, a lot of people are … not so great.
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Tags: accident insurance, accident reports, accidents at work, band-aid, blessing of getting fired, carpal tunnel, company liability, cpr moves, disability, e.coli, employee loyalty, foom, freelancers, HR manager, mailroom box, microstory, minju pak, mona mansour, state of peril, subway napkins, tk magazine, worker's comp, workplace fiction
