5
Nov
Posted in Single Lady | 3 Comments »
photo credit: Sumlin
After all my talk of sleep yesterday I had a rather weird night last night. I had vowed to go to bed at a more reasonable time, wake up early (well, earlier than 1), and get started on the day. So I was deep in sleep by 3 am, when my neighbor came home, turned on her favorite numbingly repetitive tunes, and proceeded to have a tantrum involving extensive sobbing and wall-beating. Oh dear.
Poor neighbor. For some reason I suspect that her angst has something to do with a man rather than a job, for then she was on the phone, and occasionally yelling, and no one does that to former or potential bosses—do they?
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Tags: behavior with neighbors, city living, civility, grown woman, house hunters, insomnia, living space, manhattan, move to brooklyn, neighbor tantrum, new york, new york city, relationship troubles, rude neighbors, thin walls, waking in the middle of the night
1
Sep
Posted in A Layoff Story | No Comments »
© The Discarded
Not sure what to do with that pile of business cards the company had printed for you a week before your layoff? Check out The Discarded.
Michelle and Mike, cofounders of the project (they’re also, sweetly, a couple) want to humanize the “6.7 million unemployed people” statistic. As a physical representation of that number, they’re collecting the defunct business cards of as many folks as possible, and will feature those cards, along with individual people’s unemployment tales, on their website.
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Tags: 6.7 million, digital advertising agency, employer and employee perspective, house hunters, job market, laying people off, marketing consultancy, michelle, mike, nonpaying clients, old business cards, recession vibe, severance, suzanne whang, the discarded, the unemployed masses, unemployment, unemployment q&a, unemployment stories
27
Aug
Posted in Lifestyles of the Unemployed | 3 Comments »
photo credit: robot glue
What is this? Scratchy throat, red tonsils, swollen glands, achy hip sockets, general feeling of malaise, and … most frighteningly, lack of desire to drink?
Oh dear. I think I may have come down with something.
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Tags: contaminated keyboards, germ-carrying coworkers, house hunters, o.j. and diet sprite, office ailments, scratchy throat, summer sick, swollen glands, unemployment sick
