Tag Archives: work

Business Jargon I Can’t Stand

This list is a few weeks in the making; I’ve been taking notes at meetings.

reached out, as in “I reached out to George yesterday as I know he is looking for help with your online efforts,” instead of “I contacted George yesterday as I know he is looking for help with your online efforts”
touch [...]

The Onion Has My Number

Day Spent On Internet Comes Full Circle
DAYTON, OH—A day of web surfing poetically ended just as it began Monday, when a random string of links brought area man Howard Nagel back to the same Facebook page on which he started nine hours earlier.
According to Nagel’s browser history, he followed a friend’s music recommendation link to [...]

Must Avoid Work

The days are all bleeding into one another. Wake up; bus ride; office job; bus ride; dinner; web job; television, video games, or reading; sleep.
I think I spend more working time on my ten-hour-a-week web job than I do on my forty-hour-a-week office job. It helps that the web job is far more interesting and [...]

Combatting Comment Spam

In the last two weeks or so, the amount of comment spam I’ve gotten has increased ridiculously. Something on the order of a new comment every hour. In an effort to stop this, I’ve put up some roadblocks. If you’ve posted a comment before, you should have no problems. However, in the off chance that [...]

Swimming Alone in the Intern Pool

First and foremost, a very happy first birthday to somatablet.com. Happy birthday to my mom and brother, too, while I’m at it. Even though they don’t read this, as far as I know. Okay.
At my job, I sit in a group of eight desks, of which four are usually occupied by interns. The rest are [...]