Forum: Members Journal
07-20-2017, 05:24 PM
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Forum: Members Journal
07-12-2017, 04:21 PM
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And in the End…
An unexpected supplemental conclusion to the tales of 9 to 5!
Yesterday was one of my weekly 1-hour pops into my former workplace to perform general routine maintenance of the automation systems,...
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Forum: Members Journal
06-11-2017, 08:33 PM
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Forum: Members Journal
06-11-2017, 08:29 PM
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Forum: Members Journal
06-05-2017, 11:08 AM
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ENTRY 13: It’s His Professionalism That I Respect
Ever the capitalist, our CEO is always looking for opportunities to save a buck by piling more and more work onto his existing staff so that he doesn’t have to pay anyone else.
Originally hired as...
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Forum: Members Journal
05-29-2017, 07:48 PM
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I don't yet feel comfortable disclosing his...
I don't yet feel comfortable disclosing his latest get-rich-quick scheme, but I will say this - it involves him capitalizing on the new and emerging market of ...vaping.
I wish I could make up...
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Forum: Members Journal
05-29-2017, 01:21 PM
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It's a brilliant story! My boss once attended a...
It's a brilliant story! My boss once attended a tradeshow and brought me along. One of the presentations was about "a revolutionary new technology which was going to take the print industry by storm...
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Forum: Members Journal
05-29-2017, 12:04 PM
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Forum: Members Journal
05-29-2017, 08:56 AM
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ENTRY 12: Geriatric Marketing Inc.
Today my beloved CEO had yet another brilliant idea. He’d originally inherited his father’s printing company, but ever the intrepid entrepreneur, he decided that he was also an app developer and...
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Forum: Members Journal
05-22-2017, 04:33 AM
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ENTRY 11: I want a painting. You have 30 Minutes
Note: Remember friends - this is all in the past.
Today a customer brought in a stretched canvas measuring 24” x 36” and asked my boss for 12” x 18” digital prints. Being completely oblivious to...
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Forum: Members Journal
05-15-2017, 10:42 AM
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Forum: Members Journal
05-08-2017, 04:32 AM
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ENTRY 9: The Janitor Needs Your Help Again
We’re now approaching four straight weeks without any actual design work for me to do, and it’s been over a year since we’ve had any business for our so-called “app company”, so for the next 3 days...
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Forum: Members Journal
05-01-2017, 10:28 AM
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ENTRY 8: I Guess You Can Just Delete It?
Selling apps to clients has been difficult, primarily because our CEO failed to tell anyone that we exist. He seemed to think that creating a website was all one had to do and that the clients would...
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Forum: Members Journal
04-24-2017, 05:29 AM
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ENTRY 7: Just Copy Someone Else’s
Note: the following, like all entries, was written while these events transpired. But this is all in the past and I am now gainfully employed elsewhere where I’m not working for an absolute doofus.
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Forum: Members Journal
04-17-2017, 12:18 PM
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Forum: Members Journal
04-17-2017, 11:10 AM
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Forum: Members Journal
04-17-2017, 10:52 AM
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Forum: Members Journal
04-10-2017, 03:30 PM
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Words cannot express the weight which has been...
Words cannot express the weight which has been lifted from me leaving that job. The CEO kept me on as an IT consultant, but I'm freed from all the garbage I had to deal with on a daily basis. Thanks...
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Forum: Members Journal
04-10-2017, 04:17 AM
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ENTRY 5: Do You Need Me to Read It To You?
Seven months ago, as mentioned in ENTRY 3, our beloved CEO decided that we are now a social media marketing agency, (meaning that we will log in to a client’s FB account once each week in case there...
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Forum: Members Journal
04-03-2017, 10:43 AM
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ENTRY 4: Round it Down
Last year I was asked to develop a mobile time card application which we might sell to potential clients. After a bit of research I put together a functioning app and incorporated layers of...
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Forum: Members Journal
03-28-2017, 04:09 PM
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Forum: Members Journal
03-27-2017, 10:43 PM
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Entirely self-educated. I spent my youth in...
Entirely self-educated. I spent my youth in various asylumns where volunteers huddled together mentally ill children aged 12-18 and taught down to the dumbest kid in the room. Graduated valedictorian...
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Forum: Members Journal
03-27-2017, 10:27 PM
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A wonderfully apt clip - thank you, TH!
My...
A wonderfully apt clip - thank you, TH!
My last day will be next Monday, and I have to come in over the weekend to train the new hire. The abuse continues daily, and I promise it will get worse...
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Forum: Members Journal
03-27-2017, 03:37 PM
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Entry 3: Running a Business by The Good Book
Entry 3: Running a Business by The Good Book
I’ve come to understand that those in positions of authority are seldom popular with their workforce and that capitalism generally promotes the most...
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Forum: Members Journal
03-20-2017, 06:37 PM
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Entry 2: Gazing into the Void
Our CEO hired...
Entry 2: Gazing into the Void
Our CEO hired a sexagenarian to fill a vacancy for a customer service rep, and I was charged with the task of teaching him how to use a computer. Hours were spent on...
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