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Advice for people who always complain that others don't heed their advice.The thing is that the problem is not that people don't heed your advice. The problem is that you get twisted out of shape if...
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This comment really captures something that has bothered me for a long time about 'time management' People always say "I just make time!" as if somehow all time is equal. As if a sleepy afternoon hour...
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NOW thinks up a clever way to deal with Hooters- if you're a family restaurant, you need to follow laws against sex discrimination, and if you're a titty bar with more clothes, you don't need kids...
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I don't think marriage will fix an $8000 a year income. At best, you'll have two broke people who can't find gainful employment and their kids. I think that really, focusing on moral stuff like whether...
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A huge peeve I have is the idea that there's a minority of people who produce and the rest of us are useless parasites. Many people use social services yet produce a lot of things, such as they stock...
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People who say that if you have time to complain, you have time to change things are idiots. Why? It took me 20 seconds to type the first sentence of the post. Now, if I was to tackle a common problem-...
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This article about being an escort is interesting. Whenever a woman is seen trying to achieve something, there always seems to be an added question- is she fuckable? It seems half the criticism of...
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I admit that I like memoirs of ordinary undistinguished lives. Reading them I feel part of a sisterhood of plain janes. Some have been addicts, and I sympathize with their horrors, some are ordinarily...
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I just get the feeling that it's not possible to have a company made completely of top performers. People's performance also shifts from day to day, week to week, year to year. We all say we want only...
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I want to laugh at this writer's naive faith in marriage. If only those girls got married, and adhered to my personal mortality... he doesn't exactly tell us what would happen. Would these unfinished...
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I learned that people who aren't cheery optimists aren't just thought criminals, we're emotional criminals as well, thanks to this super useful Oprah magazine article.This is too stupid to parse every...
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I don't think people are just trying to score points. People are truly hurt by our words and by being overlooked. No one's hands are clean, but I think the wounds are real. I'm reading Lost...
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Well, I'm glad the pendulum is starting to swing back. Years after Seligman's insights, while correct and helpful in their way, were watered down into a list of 'shoulds' about how we 'should' feel,...
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A huge problem with being sexyfun as this great blog post calls it is that when they branch out beyond their right to be conventionally attractive, and sexually performative, they are going to get the...
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More workers replaced by interns. Big companies are basically taking a shit on everyone(the folk probably still have to pay for the god damn college credit) and we're whining about how they are job...
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I think these three articles from separate magazines form a single story. In Nothing We trust about a man betrayed by capitalism, government, and church. Drawing from the same well, this story has...
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I'm going to have to require everyone to shut up about participation trophies. First, not everyone under the age of 30 was in a youth soccer league- possibly due to the parents not being able to afford...
View ArticleAugusten Burroughs Is A Moron: A Series
"I'm a complete and total fuckup. Why is exactly why I am equipped to write this book and tell you how to live" - Augusten Burroughs.I enjoyed his series of books about his fucking up and his crazy...
View ArticleThe Jobs Project
Oddly enough, when I lost my job, I stopped blogging. Or maybe it was before. It's difficult for me to remember now but I had so much to say that I had three blogs. Right now, I am obsessed with jobs...
View ArticleBullshit
In today's employment environment, there's a lot of what I call bullshit. For example, computer applicant screening. We'll have people who can be qualified to say "this is Staples. How may I help...
View ArticleUnemployment
I've been unemployed for nearly a year. Of course I know that it's harder to land a job when you've been out . Personally, I think this is a stupid system. Then again, I don't think you need years of...
View ArticleProvide Your Own Tools
stuff I was expected to provide for jobs:My own work ID - a job I hadMy own SUV - a job I got turned down for, for that reason.My own 'reliable transportation' - every job everMy own laptop - the same...
View ArticleWhat Salt Sugar Fat Reads like
I read the book Sugar Salt Fat, and it's ripe for parody. Note: while many of the facts in this parody are exaggerated, and all quotes by officials made up, there is such a thing as 'exercise...
View ArticleAnother PSA
Employed people: There has been some confusion on what a job lead is. So let's play Goofus and Gallant. Goofus says "Hey! I saw a sign at a fast food place that said it was hiring!" "Gallant says "Hey,...
View ArticleHow to Tell You're in a Toni Morrison Novel
Yes this is a Mallory Ortberg fanpost. You walk into town. A plague of robins follows you.You find out your family history by the song the children sing.You are named after a Bibical character or a...
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