All Blog Posts Tagged 'work' (14)

I'm a behavioral coach for abused children and when we do intakes of our clients we have to fill out an evaluation. This new evaluation that we just started using has a "spirituality" portion where, after meeting our client, we are supposed to rate on a scale of 0-3 how "spiritually involved" he or she is and the implication is that if the child is not involved in a church group and is not spiritual they have less going for them. I am soooo highly annoyed filling those out and of course when I… Continue

"I called to him, rapidly stating what it was I wanted him to do—namely, to examine a small paper with me. Imagine my surprise, nay, my consternation, when without moving from his privacy, Bartleby in a singularly mild, firm voice, replied, ‘I would prefer not to.’

I sat awhile in perfect silence, rallying my stunned faculties. Immediately it occurred to me that my ears had deceived me, or Bartleby had entirely misunderstood my meaning. I repeated my request in the…

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   I have been in Mary Kay cosmetics for 3 years and grew up in a fundamentalist Christian home. I have been an atheist for about 8 months now and have become frustrated. Growing up only knowing religious people has made this transition hard for me but more so in my business. I have had to change my weekly meetings because my director is too preachy. It never used to bother me, but the moment I came to understand that there is no god,…

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My fiance and I are both atheists. Recently, he had a discussion at work about religion, and admitted he was an atheist. Most of his coworkers are okay with it, one is teasing him about it (they're friends; it's what they do), but the last one is being an absolute arsehole.

 

For the last two full days, this kid (he's 19) has been harassing my fiance about his religion. "Why don't you believe in god?", "How do you not believe in god?", "If you dropped a wallet with $5000 in it,…

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Locker number 3 belongs to a woman who reads her bible on

breaks and lunchtime. Tonight she posted Easter greetings on her

locker. The card said "God's blessings at Easter" and the for god so

loved the world that he gave his blahblah verse.

Well!

I thought about it for a couple of hours. Should I let it go? Naw. I'm in locker

2, it's right there, in my face and it's offensive. I could create a

little collage of newspaper articles to post on my locker;… Continue

So being in Retail all of my working life one thing has always been clear, you must work Sundays. Period. People just don't get it.



So a few days ago a woman came into my reception area asking for a hiring manager. "I put in an application several days ago and I wanted to see if there had been any decisions made." All the while she was clutching her son to her hip like a ming dynasty vase.



So as a part of my job I looked up her information and looked at her availability.… Continue

I still have my after high school job. I was supposed to get my raise a while ago, but it didn't happen. I make less money than all the other shift managers at my restaurant. I get paid $1.40 over minimum wage something tells me that I could be making a lot more money.

They did an inspection during my shift and told me all the extra things they want me to do. I thought I was doing my best. They didn't even notice the extra things I did. The thing that pisses me off most was that I got in… Continue

I have a lot of reading and blog posts to catch up on. My big project got bigger and bigger the last couple of weeks, but it will be done by sunset tonight. (My part is already finished.)



I actually felt a little depressed about it this morning. My phone has been ringing constantly and my emails have been busy. Now that the show is over everything will be quiet. That is good, but in a way it is bad. If you're lonely all the time you get used to that. If you're busy talking to people… Continue

I graduated from graduate school a little over a week ago, on May 17th from Hollins University in Roanoke, VA. (Master of Arts in Liberal Studies). Now I am left with plight of finding a job in this economy and no idea what I'm qualified to do in the first place...

So what now?

I work in an office on the 15th floor of a glass-walled skyscraper. (Actually, I personally work in a cubicle in that office, but you get the idea.) There are few buildings in this area anywhere near this tall, and the region is mostly very flat, so the view from the windows is wide open -- and, at this time of year, quite pleasant, with lots of trees and other greenery dominating the surrounding neighborhoods, especially on our side of the highway.



Recently, we had a moderately… Continue

For a while now I have been totally freaking out about work. As is typical of my family I tend to obsess about certain items and my obsession is work.



Today however I found this quote from Bertrand Russell "One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important."



And you know I am going to print that out and put it over my desk. I need as many reminders as possible that I need to chill out, this is NOT the end of the… Continue

Catholic health system to become one of VA's largest.



I work for Bon Secours and can say with an insider's perspective that this merger is only the beginning of the growth of Bon Secours across the region. Off the record, there have been attempts the merge with (smallish) secular organizations as well but those seem to have mostly fallen through for now.



I'm not sure how I feel about this. On one hand, they have… Continue

Today was full of suck, with many users being very needy, and day 2 of no long distance in the office, so I spent all day on the phone with vendors. Oh, and one of our sites backups hadn't worked properly since last july. And some shadow copies were disappearing faster than I could recover data from them.

And I found Limewire on a users machine who is always bitching about how her compy doesn't work.

And a hard drive died. So yeah, suck ass.



Also, I'm on Twitter, at Able_X.… Continue

This post was imported from Livejournal on 2008.07.17



I have a bad memory, but this is the best I can remember.



So today I went to lunch with a few people from work, and everything was going fine until the way home. It turned into a typical "Christian-who's-never-met-an-atheist" conversation. I was riding with two female co-workers, Mary, who is a Deist and Annie, a Christian. Mary mentioned something about her bad luck, and said it was a bad sign "if you believe in… Continue