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Workplace witticisms, job jokes and career quips; who says work can't be a laughing matter?
The Top 9 Best Excuses for the Absentee Client. Top Story - February 2018.
Wake up 5 AM sharp, your carefully macro balanced breakfast has been polished off, your meals for the day are prepped. On the way to work you pick up your Double Shot Starbucks already waiting, slotted perfectly into the cardboard sleeve and your favourite non de clurme (because your real name is far too boring) scrawled accross its anodyne corporate surface.
By Paul Yates6 years ago in Journal
McKetchup
Everyone should work at McDonald's. Once upon a hot summer day, many a weary traveler sought refuge in that main street McDonald's nestled humbly in a hill of green. There, they could be anointed in a shower of such luxurious and affordable items like our internationally desired, smooth silky ice cream, savory, twice blessed burgers received exclusively from happily willing cows, and golden fried slivers of God's vegetable.
By Alexander Ender6 years ago in Journal
The Retail Rant
So, since the age of sixteen, I have had various roles in retail. My, how things change. Back in those days, customer satisfaction seemed the epitome of my role. Making sure that my customers had access to everything they needed at all times, always being available to help when they needed it.
By Dawn Elizabeth6 years ago in Journal
Post-Grad Problems
For three or more years, you toiled. Essays, deadlines, hand-ins, stress, terror, elation, despair, and a liver-tremblingly large amount of vodka; University was, as X Factor finalists like to say, an emotional rollercoaster. But at the end of it all, you got your slightly pricey piece of parchment, you wore your oddly angular hat, and you returned home a hero. Yet, who knew that this was where the real struggle was set to start? Here are the top three biggest problems you face as a post-grad...
By Harry Bullmore6 years ago in Journal
Funniest Job Interview Memes That You Need to Read Beforehand
Job interviews are brutal. You have to practice all the standard job interview questions, brush up your job interview wardrobe, and even just hope you get a job offer at the end of the interview. It's easy to panic, especially when you are running out of savings and are worried about how you're going to make ends meet in the upcoming months.
By Buddy Brown6 years ago in Journal
The Daydreamer's Thoughts
Employee Thoughts Well, welcome to my mind. I work in a job where I have one job and one job only: to sell things, cars actually. So when no one is here and you've made the phone calls you need to make in a day, there's really not too much else you can get up to. So of course, like a small child, I sit here and imagine all of the things I could do if I had super powers, was rich, or just had a day off. I think about all the things I have to do this week (because if having a full time job isn't enough, I'm also a student athlete at my local university) and about how people should be able to order chicken nugget bouquets instead of flowers... Because let's be realistic, they're way more useful. I think about the possibilities that I'll have once I've graduated and get to work "for real" in a job that I love. And on those really rough days, I think about a rich, handsome, hilarious man that would come and steal me away and I'd never have to work again... Then I realize I'm not nearly attractive enough for that and continue making phone calls to disgruntled people who just want us to sell them things basically for free. It's really not a tough job, and I get paid quite well for the amount of effort I put forth on a regular basis, but that doesn't mean I can't dream, right?
By Sydney Organa7 years ago in Journal
Fan Fic Review Peeves
I've been writing and reading fan fiction for years. I love it, it gives me a strong nostalgic feeling. I love exploring different territories and a plethora of paths with my favourite characters. Even though they're fictional characters, they feel like your best friends that you grew up with.
By Chloe Gilholy7 years ago in Journal
A Funny Thing Happened at The Office Today...
I haven't said this out loud but being a black man in corporate America stinks. I've had the distinct honor of working in offices surrounded by white people for the better part of 15 years. It hasn't been all bad, but if anyone thinks there isn't still a racial divide, try being one of eight minorities that work in a predominantly white company. The funny thing is it isn't always the big things that make it tough. Sometimes it's the little things that truly make it unbearable. What little things you ask? Well...
By Lovell Porter7 years ago in Journal
My Adventures as a Pizza Delivery Driver
The thunder rolls and the lightning strikes! Not long ago, I arrived at work on a gloomy, stormy morning. It was one hundred percent chance rain for the day. When I walked to the back of the store to get my car topper for the day, the developmentally challenged employee was already there folding boxes. I went outside real fast in the rain and placed the car topper on top of my car, and ran back inside to clock in for the day. The Manager on Duty clocked me in and handed me a bank for the day. The bank is for the delivery drivers to make change with at a customer's location if need be when they are paying with cash money.
By Rhonda Farley7 years ago in Journal
My Adventures as a Pizza Delivery Driver
One day at work, I had a pizza delivery come up and it was not to one of my favorite places to go. The delivery was to the local mall in town. Most of the time, the customers that do order pizza will come outside to met the delivery drivers, unless they say that they are manning the store where they work by themselves. If that is the case, then you have no choice but to park your vehicle and go inside to make the delivery.
By Rhonda Farley7 years ago in Journal