Drew’s Blue Collar Rants
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Finally Friday – The Blue Collar “Long Weekend”
It’s finally Friday, and for once, you don’t have to work this weekend. That’s right—two full days off. Around here, that qualifies…
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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…
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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…
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Downsizing: Because F#@* You, That’s Why
Layoffs are back, baby. Like clockwork. Just when you thought maybe, just maybe, this year you wouldn’t have to play career Russian…
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Performance Reviews: The Roast I Didn’t Ask For
So HR says performance reviews this year are based on performance and attitude. Cool. Performance? Fine. I show up, I crank out…
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Work Politics: Return of the High School Drama
You ever notice that once you finally settle into the work grind—figuring out the ins, the outs, and which bathroom stall doesn’t…
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Work-Life Balance: My Ass
You bust your ass through the interview, answering their stupid “Where do you see yourself in five years?” question like you’ve actually…
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Quarterly Meetings: Corporate Propaganda, Free Pens, and the Illusion of Milk
Ah, quarterly meetings. That beautiful time every three months when the suits come down from Mount Spreadsheet to tell us peasants how…
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Every Crew Has These Co-Workers…
Every crew gets new people. And sometimes, we get the ones that won’t go away — like that miserable chest cold that’s…
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The Weekly Cycle of Blue-Collar Purgatory
Monday kicks off like you never left, Google even labeled my job site as “home” because I spend more time there than…
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