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TAGS: 1st sentence, work, legal, coloradoMeasuring social capital through cost-benefit analysis may be difficult, but it is not impossible, and several excellent studies have identified useful proxies for social capital, using different types and combinations of qualitative, comparative and quantitative research methodologies.
TAGS: 1st sentence, work, friendship, research, methodologyThe last ten seats at the counter, furthest from the front door, are known to the staff and regulars as “Hawaii.”
TAGS: work, doors, hawaiiThe result of working for a large corporation, and perhaps their out-and-out goal, is the destruction of your will to live.
TAGS: work, corporate, willpowerTwo sentences were sitting at the bar, discussing meditation over glasses of scotch, when one says to the other, “You know, I agree with you about corporations destroying your will to live, but I’ll have you know, the result of working for yourself, and maybe this is also the out-and-out goal of the large corporation, is the destruction of your ability to live.”
TAGS: work, alcohol, corporate, bar, destruction, sentences, scotch, willpowerAt first there were just spots which could be ignored or mopped up, but as the rising tide of paper covered his entire office floor, a cold layer of anxiety floated on top, quickly rising to envelop his chest, heart and lungs.
TAGS: work, anxiety, heart, paper, chest, panic, lungsBrenner had one, secretly-cherished foible, which was this: he had named the five urinals in the office men’s room after the workdays of the week, and he would only utilize each one on its respective day.
TAGS: work, urinals, foiblesLooking around the room, Hector wondered if he should tells his coworkers about his past lives, and if he did, whether he should start with the life where he was the very short man named Samuel, no taller then four feet, but with extra large extremities, or if he should tell them about Louisa and get it over with.
TAGS: work, hector, extremities, reincarnationThe thing is, if it turns out the citizens of the great State of California actually like low vehicle license fees, almost no property tax, decaying K-12 public education and the circus atmosphere of budgetary sleight-of-hand in lieu of responsible fiscal management, then my career is meaningless before I even graduate.
TAGS: work, auto, california, career, circus, government, taxes, educationIf it wasn’t printed on those ubiquitous 8 1/2 x 11” sheets of paper and assigned to her by either her boss or her professor, chances are she hasn’t heard already.
TAGS: work, paper, boss, professorI’ve never actually tried to herd cats, but I’m pretty certain that herding the paperwork in my office is by far the more difficult task.
TAGS: work, cats, paperworkA true mentor is one of those people who can only be realized as such years after success occurs; I now run away from anybody who tells me she wishes to be my mentor at the onset of our working relationship, because whether she’s aware of it or not, the seemingly generous offer is just a euphamism for ‘you’ll do my shit work and treat me like a queen.’
TAGS: work, mentor, success, relationshipOne of my office manager’s coffee cups delivers the following advice: “If it rings, put it on hold; if it clanks, call the repairman; if it whistles, ignore it; if it’s a friend, take a break; if it’s a boss, look busy; if it talks, take notes; if it’s handwritten, type it; if it’s typed, copy it; if it’s copied, file it; if it’s Friday, forget it,” her other cup simply inspires with the words, “My lawyer can beat up your lawyer.”
TAGS: work, coffee, advice, lawyerYou know it’s been a day of extremes when your boss comes out, stands by your desk and just starts laughing at you.
TAGS: work, light sideMotivation to stay at the office working late is inversely proportional to the amount of Guiness that makes its way from the office mini-fridge into one’s mug.
TAGS: work, guinessThey assured Jenna that in a few months, it would get very busy at the agency, and she would be in charge of many complicated and important projects, and then they ushered her to a cubicle and explained that she would conduct her own orientation for the next month or two by combing through the shared drive for random memos, templates, and written procedures.
TAGS: work, complicated, cubicleI’ve got to get some work done, so would you all just stop being so damn scintillating.
When looking for a new career, what’s most important is imagining your wardrobe, and what, exactly, others will envy about your fabulous lifestyle.
No little kid ever stood up in front of her Kindergarten class and announced that she would grow up to be a cubicle-dweller; what I’m trying to say is, at my age, I still need to reconcile my age-old ideal about the perfect job, to the image of the less-than-glamourous career I actually built for myself (and like).
TAGS: work, school, kindergarten“Look, that’s the third time someone has felt it’s okay to yell at me this week, surely it’s my turn by now?”
TAGS: work, arrgh, yelling