#random work post

Career changes to consider: * Designer of Mad Max-inspired attire that would be suitable for business/corporate dress codes. Focus on ways to convey "get the fuck out of my personal space" without being too dangerously metal (OSHA standards) and without compromising the ability to get into those tiny-ass restroom stalls. * Hermit.

It may be a throwaway remark to you, something offhand, something intended to be playful, but toss enough of that shit around buddy, and the ground is going to get thick with it. Hope you have some sturdy boots on.

"Teamwork" is touted as this lofty ideal, this adopted mission statement, and yet it all too often falls flat in its application because the integral component of (effective) communication is missing.

Few things make the soul wither like the forced camaraderie of office cake.

I was sitting in a meeting counting the number of people with fit bit-like devices, and the part of my brain where old sci-fi movies and comic books reside started screaming "that is how they will control you! A signal will go out and suddenly the wristband army will rise up and do the bidding of some great evil overlord!"

Coworker (looking at my blue shirt w/silver stripes): Your blouse reminds me of that thing on the internet from about a year ago... with the dress? Is it blue, is it gold... Me: ah, yeah this is actually gold. Me: actually... it's mithril.

There are people in my office talking about pumpkin spice lattes... Too soon, I whisper. Too. Soon.