Recent Articles
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Fall: The End of Daylight
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Fall’s here, and people are creaming themselves over pumpkin spice like it’s the cure for seasonal depression. Pumpkin spice lattes, pumpkin spice candles, probably pumpkin…
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Downsizing: Because Fuck You, That’s Why
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Layoffs are back, baby. Like clockwork. Just when you thought maybe, just maybe, this year you wouldn’t have to play career Russian roulette, HR shows…
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Performance Reviews: The Roast I Didn’t Ask For
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So HR says performance reviews this year are based on performance and attitude. Cool. Performance? Fine. I show up, I crank out numbers that make…
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Work Politics: Return of the High School Drama
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You ever notice that once you finally settle into the work grind—figuring out the ins, the outs, and which bathroom stall doesn’t have a broken…
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SHORT READ- Factory Jobs: Anyone Can Do It (Even Me!)
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So, the year was 2021, and I just got my green card. I didn’t know what job to apply for. I had worked as a…
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Work-Life Balance: My Ass
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You bust your ass through the interview, answering their stupid “Where do you see yourself in five years?” question like you’ve actually dreamed about still…
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Quarterly Meetings: Corporate Propaganda, Free Pens, and the Illusion of Milk
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Ah, quarterly meetings. That beautiful time every three months when the suits come down from Mount Spreadsheet to tell us peasants how great we’re doing…
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Every Crew Has These Co-Workers…
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Every crew gets new people. And sometimes, we get the ones that won’t go away — like that miserable chest cold that’s been hanging on…
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The Weekly Cycle of Blue-Collar Purgatory
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Monday kicks off like you never left, Google even labeled my job site as “home” because I spend more time there than in my actual…
