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Amy Odell


Does Your Job Make You Want to Throw Things?

It's the first thing you'll compain about when you get home. It's what you try to forget as you drink those last bits of various liquors from your freezer while watching E!. It's what makes you hit the snooze button in the morning. And coming from others, it's what makes you glad you're not them. It's all the WHACKED OUT SHIT that goes on in your office.

I've been hearing a lot lately about various sorts of whacked out shit from a dear friend who just started a new job. They're mostly hipster horror stories (read: involves 26-year-old men with ear gauges and a putrid stench that they themselves create so they can periodically use it to make themselves miserable/sick while discussing said misery/sickness deeply and at length).

I work at Jewcy, which is just fun, smells like bagels, and totally normal. All. The. Time. I don't go home and drink away stress because Jewcy createth it not. My position doesn't encompass what ought to be, like, 12 positions because we're not understaffed at all. Besides, internet companies like ours, which encompass a magazine, the uncorrupted version of My Space, a store, and producer of events/parties, run themselves really. Which is why only seven of us are full-time staffers. But seriously, I'm not DESPERATE FOR AN INTERN or anything weird like that. FOR GOD'S SAKE, no. EXTRA LABOR would suck.

In fact I hardly do anything. I just write about dating from time to time, skype funny things to Craig, who sits three three feet to my right, compulsively click "Refresh" on Gawker and watch Daft Punk /other funny videos on YouTube.

But if you have a high stress job replete with whacked out shit, do vent here.


Anonymous


My Work is Weird

So today I got called into my new vice president's office today. She wanted to discuss my behavior at a skincare training which I left early to go and finish my real work. I know that it is rude to leave trainings early and should have communicated that more clearly but this is where IT GETS EVEN STRANGER…….Are you ready for this. She told me that the trainer told her that I was drawing on the table. I couldn't do anything but laugh at my vice president in the face. It seemed like such a strange thing like I was in Kindergarten and getting in trouble for stealing Jimmy's red crayon.

I love to draw and intend on being a famous handbag designer the last place I would ever draw is on a table. This is what I have huge giant black notebooks for. This is insane. What is even more insane is that they would waste their management time to discuss this with me. In the past few months I have been written up and reprimanded for calling out sick and accused of drawing on a table like a two year old.

I wonder if I am treated in such ridiculous manner how can I possibly take this place seriously or even want to have any integrity or honor in the company that I work for. The only approach that I have grown fond of is utter and complete ambivalence to all things considered with this job at the crazy French lotion company where nothing makes sense.





aspot


i work with my DAD!

as my title obviousely reveals..i work with my dad which sucks...he can send me to my room and shit when i do something wrong...beat that level of suckiness~!





Uriah


Fast Food

Fast food seems to be the bottom of the barrel. I would rather work with my parents than do what I do. My job doesn't just make me WANT to throw things, as the several boxes in the freezer can attest to, it actually MAKES me throw things. When it's the worst I just throw on my kippah and remember that I'm not actually alone and that I've been given the strength to do this job, otherwise I wouldn't have gotten said job.

That being said, there is nothing worse than working with a bunch of high school kids who think they can come in and get paid to do absolutely nothing but sit around and talk.

Note to high school kids: It's called "work" for a reason.





h.


lotto or bust

i work for MTV. but before you say how envious you are of me and so forth, let me say this: it is near impossible to land a job with the company first and foremost (unless you know someone who works there), and then once you're in it can be a pain in the ass to move up in the ranks. and depending on what department you're in or how long you've been there, the salary can be either really lame or really fantastic. i've been here for 2 years and i'm still in the same department that i was when i started out. but at least i don't have to wear a suit and tie to work. i also get great health insurance (super important) and tons of perks (free Daily Show tickets, free movie screenings, discounts at certain stores, etc.). i'm hoping to either move up within the company, or find a new job elsewhere. or win the lotto. that would be nice.





Yitro


Down here in SW Florida,

Down here in SW Florida, where daytime highs reach eleventy thousand degrees Fahrenheit, I can be found on top of buildings  - where the temperatures are usually about fifteen hundred degrees, again in Fahrenheit, hotter - installing large commercial broadband satellite systems. After I vomit once it gets better.

Actually it's not that bad; I like the dizzy lightheaded feeling, mostly.

 And Sunday is my son Asher's fourth birthday !!!  Send cash.





JewcyCraig


Do you actually vomit?

Because that might not be good.





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