Comments on: Clues that you might be stuck in a soul-sucking job

By: Wil

Wil — Wed, 09 Feb 2011 11:56:17 +0000

Sighing is just taking a deep breath, which is a way of calming yourself, relaxing and refocusing. People should be ENCOURAGED to “sigh”. What, nobody has ever told you to “take a deep breath” when you are doing something stressful and need to refocus and come back to earth? Unfortunately, I was told by a boss to take a deep breath when I was stressed, but when I did I was accused of sighing and yelled at. He was an asshole, not a hardass, just an asshole.

By: Canthz_B

Canthz_B — Tue, 01 Feb 2011 01:20:46 +0000

*SIGH*

By: Monkeys n Typewriters

Monkeys n Typewriters — Tue, 25 Jan 2011 22:53:38 +0000

1 Schrutebuck for you, sir.

By: Russian

Russian — Mon, 24 Jan 2011 15:27:46 +0000

Realistically, your job unless it’s with google doesn’t want you to use the time well and creatively. It’s all about punching the time clock, man.

By: red velvet

red velvet — Mon, 24 Jan 2011 14:25:07 +0000

The H’s look like H’s to me, though I want o know what Canthz_B is smoking to morph them into N’s.

By: Canthz_B

Canthz_B — Mon, 24 Jan 2011 13:09:29 +0000

UHG, I think there’s a literalist movement afoot dedicated to sucking the life out of PAN.

By: The voice of... James Mason

The voice of... James Mason — Sun, 23 Jan 2011 23:18:34 +0000

Yeah, that’s my no. 1 pet peeve- chances are, if I’m in a horrible enough mood that strangers feel compelled to order me to smile, their request makes me want to rip out their spleen. My solution in the past has been to simply glower at them with such passionate vitriol that they run away screaming “never mind, I was just kidding!” It works pretty well!

By: martha

martha — Sun, 23 Jan 2011 22:33:21 +0000

When ordered to smile, I actually prefer to oblige in the most painfully fake way possible, so I can avoid the potential for, “Aww, c’mon, give us a smile.” and I still make it plain I ain’t on board.

By: Wayne

Wayne — Sun, 23 Jan 2011 19:44:19 +0000

NB: thoroughly enjoyed this second post also.

By: unholyghost2003

unholyghost2003 — Sun, 23 Jan 2011 13:37:00 +0000

more perspective on #2: There are also a good number of jobs out there that have a lot of down time but don’t lend themselves well to cleaning bathrooms or other such work. If you work at a reception desk there are limits to what outside projects you can work on. 10-20 min lulls in walk-ins and phone calls are not totally unheard of, yet you can’t just get up and walk away to do something else, sure you can ask for other projects to do in your down time but those projects must be able to be brought to the reception desk and have an open ended completion date (since while 10-20 min lulls happen there are also plenty of days when the phones don’t stop ringing and people just keep walking in asking for help/information). Often there are just not enough projects like that to fill the lulls.

By: unholyghost2003

unholyghost2003 — Sun, 23 Jan 2011 13:19:18 +0000

*headdesk* I promise that CB can read … the joke was that the H’s in the first two lines of text are written funny so they could easily be mistaken for N’s.

By: aaa

aaa — Sun, 23 Jan 2011 06:02:59 +0000

I hate things that make me laugh. Being jovial puts me in a horrid mood.

By: pony girl

pony girl — Sun, 23 Jan 2011 02:28:43 +0000

@fac,

Well, at least you came up with an idea. I really had absolutely NO clue.

@amazon,
Thanks! It was going to keep me up nights if I didn’t know what that thing was.

By: homschlr4ever

homschlr4ever — Sat, 22 Jan 2011 20:01:44 +0000

I always love things that make me laugh. Come one, those pictures represent almost every administration I’ve ever taught for. My husband, who’s in management, can definitely sympathize. I guess being in a workplace just makes us that more sarcastic I suppose.