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In response to Office Fodder  

This is hilarious! Here's what my office sounds like:



#1: I have a baby and my baby is cute.

#2: I have a baby too and my baby is cute too!

#1: My baby pees 10 times a night.

#2: My baby pees 9 times a night!

#1: I can be late every morning because I have a baby.

#2: I have to leave early because I have a baby!

#1: It's funny, because I can't talk about anything but my baby!

#2: That is funny, because I can't either!

-- Anon

 

Anon...are you sitting next to me???

-- Sarah

 

Anon, that's almost every office. All these soccer moms have in life anymore is talking about their kids when people around them could give a crap less about them. It's like a competition, whose baby poops more, is cuter, learns to walk first, what mom is more active in the PTA humina humina humina. Please people, stop talking about your stuppid kids at work, we without kids don't care, mmmkay?

-- Haha

 

boss: I'm so important that I have to take every call on a speakerphone!

-- Adam

 

Coworker 1 to coworker 2: I'm so busy. I'm just so busy, I have so much work to do…I can't even think straight I have so much work to do. Can you believe how much work I have to do…blah blah blah for 20 minutes straight…



Um, maybe if you'd sit down and do some work instead of talking about it, you wouldn't be so busy.

-- jennie

 

In response to Goodbye City?  

Don't any of you realize that 30k people will lose their job if this sale does not go through. How would it make you feel if I got in your face and asked you when you will be standing in the unemployment line. I have a family to support like the rest of the hard working people in this company. Maybe you should go have your mother tuck you in before someone beats your.

-- Read Me

 

You guys r a disgrace, the way you talk about circuit, it's headquarters r in your city, the company has been around since 59, we employee 30,000 and in a economy that has almost 8% unemployment rate wouldn't you think you could run a story standing behind us, showing a little support, your a useless scum paper, I really hope your next on the choping block

-- James

 

Well now is a good time to buy merchandise in their stores. Everything must go, slashed prices!!! The Company can't compete anymore, jobs get lost in this country every day, why are you so special? Stand in line.

-- Shopping spree!

 

In response to Losing Your Job Doesn't Make You a Loser  

Because only a woman could be a stay-at-home parent, right Greg?

-- Joan A

 

Good points and advice in this article. As someone who just spent 6 months unemployed due to corporate cutbacks, I'd also advise digging in for a possible long haul of being out of work. It can be VERY hard to keep your chin up and continue looking for a job day after day, and dealing with rejection emails, hiring freezes, and second-choice finishes can be very disheartening. Get some sort of hobby to take yourself out of the job hunt and burn off some stress every day. For me, it was long walks with my dog and playing ball with him. Just taking my mind off the situation for a little bit each day really helped with the long road back to being employed. It's a tough economy out there... good luck to anyone who's out of work.

-- Stinkfist

 

Joan, please explain how this story has anything to do with your comment? That's the problem with you women, always making something out of nothing, overreacting and just overthinking everything. Lighten up before it kills you.

-- Huh?

 

Huh-- "you women"? That, as well as qualifying your insulting blanket statement with "always," has far exceeded the original gender bias I called into question. By "lighten up," I'm guessing you mean "get back in the kitchen."

-- Joan A