The Art of Looking Busy

There’s always that one guy who says, “If you’ve got time to lean, you’ve got time to clean.”That guy has either never learned his lesson, or he enjoys getting fucked…

Customer Service / Work Time Fun

I spent 15 years in the grocery store business. I started at 14 as a bag boy, the easiest damn job in the world. Bag people’s shit fast, don’t smash…

CPAP Life (Blue Collar Edition)

Day 1: CPAP Class & The Face Hugger Diaries Day 1 starts with CPAP class. Yeah… apparently that’s a thing now. Right out of the gate, they congratulate you on…

The Holiday Shutdown

That one week before the New Year filled with the same old shit, just in sweatpants instead of blue jeans. No alarms, no work, no rush… but somehow still just…

The Ice Age Returns

(Management's Still Full of Crap) Winter’s creeping in again...snow, ice, and the annual reminder that your life is apparently worth less than daily production numbers. Because nothing says “team player”…

Ten Things That Drive Us All Crazy

Some days, it’s not the job that breaks you — it’s everything orbiting around it. The little irritations. The “cost-saving initiatives” that save about 12 cents and cost everyone their…

Fall: The End of Daylight

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 spice hemorrhoid cream by now.…