Category: office work
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countdown
Today is the first day of my last week at the bank! I’m still debating myself as to whether that’s a good thing or a very, very bad thing. When I reminisce about the adventure we went on after I retired from the Air Force (exactly five years ago at the end of this month!) Read.
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broom closet
I cleaned out my desk yesterday, which is as archaic a way of saying packed up & moved out as it is to say I dial phones when I’m using phones that have no dials. In our office, there are no desks, only particle board slabs screwed to brackets on the walls of our cubicles. Read.
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rezooMAY
Hot Tip O’ The Day: Mondays aren’t so bad when you don’t have to spend them in the office! One of the bennies that came with the elimination of my job, if that’s not a self-destructive contradiction, was that management hired a placement agency to help those of us who were about to be newly Read.
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pop-up
Banging away at my office keyboard yesterday morning, I was distracted by an Outlook pop-up reminding me I had a very important meeting that afternoon. I’ve got Outlook set up to give me these things all the time. I can hardly remember to feed myself without them. Trouble is, they’re only as good as the Read.
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testing testing
I drove into town early this morning to take the state worker’s office support exam. I hear the state still has a hiring freeze, but there are an awful lot of vacancies appearing on the state’s employment web site. Assuming they’re not putting them there just to keep somebody busy, I’ve been applying for as Read.
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adventures in unemployment
Happy Monday! My job’s been eliminated! How’s your day been? Not sure what to add to that. Most people have been knocked around one way or another by our current economic climate change, so it’s not like you haven’t heard this one before, or that it’s much of a surprise, really. And I’m fortunate, sort Read.
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stiffed
Friday was the last day for one of the people in our department, so a bunch of us ordered sub sandwiches from Potbelly’s and everybody threw in a little extra to buy Sandie’s lunch. The delivery guy from Potbelly’s came to the office about thirty seconds after I took a phone call that I couldn’t Read.
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fat fingers
I was showing Katrina, one of my coworkers, how to use the laser printer to address envelopes, which is way cool and a whole hell of a lot easier than trying to get the address on a letter to line up with the window in a window envelope, or print an address on a label Read.
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bowler
Stiff muscles … aching joints … swollen ligaments … this is the hand of a man who participated in the company’s annual bowling event, the same man who hasn’t bowled a single frame since 2006. Ouch. Every year, Bill B (the guy at the office who hired me for my first job after I retired Read.
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stalking
Notice anything missing? I didn’t, until I got to work yesterday. It was like that dream where you’re in a big crowd of people and you suddenly realize you’re wearing nothing but underwear. My coworkers were very understanding about it. All day long as I padded around the office I expected somebody to say something Read.
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