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From the Archives: Signs You are Suffering from Workplace Burnout

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1. You have to go to the restroom on another floor because the one you use is being cleaned. It takes you 5 minutes upon returning to your desk to realize…you aren’t sitting at your desk but the desk of the putz whose desk is in the same location as yours on this floor.

2. You can’t wait to get home and finish constructing that voodoo doll of your manager.

3. You’ve run out of people in your company to which you can assign *delightful* nicknames.

4. You’re happy to get picked for jury duty.

5. You’ve secretly put together background checks on all your co-workers “just in case”.

6. Fire drill = Super fun!

As Seen in the Breakroom #1

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Although I mostly WFH these days, and my office doesn’t have much of a breakroom to speak of anymore, I’ve collected photos over the years of items I’ve found in office break rooms or other public spaces doubling as a break room. Thought I’d share one today.

Sage advice! I took this back in 2013. Who knew this was a prediction of things to come! I hear employers in current the job market are primarily looking for unicorns.

Back from Sabbatical

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I’m back! I took a 10-year unpaid sabbatical from this blog. Ok, running this blog is an unpaid gig, so I from that aspect I lost out on nothing except possibly my sanity from not having this outlet to regale readers with the absurdity of my on the job chaos. Also, I can’t tell if anyone is still subscribed to this blog, so I probably lost out on all my readers!

But if you are still subscribed and decide to check out this post- please leave me a note in the comment! I want to know whose still out there in 2024!

So in the 10 years I’ve been away from this blog -I’ve continued to stay in the analyst realm. I’d say with a different company but not really. I’m technically with the same parent company but they have a new name and I jumped over to a different area of the company before they dumped the division I was with when I started this blog. So it feels like a different company (well- except the corporate culture is about the same). Also, in the 10 years I’ve moved into manager level roles which required me to supervise people and or processes/resources, so I’ve had some variety in my life since I’ve been here.

As I’m dusting off this blog, I totally forgot that I “rebooted” this a year in and deleted some of my original posts. No idea why! I found some of my content via the WayBack machine, which I will repost. That will 1) restore the original flavor of this blog and 2) buy me time to schedule posts with new tales of on the job absurdity! And believe me do I have some good stories to share!

Alrighty- time to get ready for the work day ahead. Later!

Workstation Error, Concluded

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In my previous post, I outlined a conversation I had with my IT department because my computer would not let me log in.  The help desk, as usual, couldn’t figure out the problem.  I reluctantly walked over to my manager’s office to let her know about this situation. Continue reading →

Tales of a Frustrated Blogger

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This is the tale of a Frustrated Blogger who turned to the Daily Post for writing prompts to jump start their blog. Frustrated Blogger was so eager to start blogging that the Frustrated Blogger didn’t read past the title of the writing prompt for further instructions. Below was Frustrated Blogger’s journey in blogging. Continue reading →