June 28, 2008
Easter Eggs
Joey Comeau is Overqualified
If you remember the 1990s you'll remember this wonderful yell - the sound of the Yahoo's singing yokel. To hear it any time just click on the ! at the end of the Yahoo logo. 9 more Internet Easter eggs. (Thank you, Chau). Also, WALL-E Easter Eggs
"May I use the Xerox machine, because I have to make copies?" The power of "because"
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February 26, 2008
Vita est Lavorum
“Work is the refuge of people who have nothing better to do.” One of Top 10 Quotes Against Work
Best job title: Teenage Pregnancy Implementation Manager
Vita est Lavorum - Life is a job
Feeling sleepy at work?
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February 01, 2008
Office 2.0
Here's how the offices of web 2.0 companies look like
Penelope Trunk’s columns about finding a career
Offbeat Jobs From The 30's And 40's
Why I got fired. A collection of disastrous pictures that show why any of these folks would understand
"Don't tell anyone I said this, but ... " More of the Worst things to say at work
Top 30 Tips for Staying Productive and Sane While Working From Home
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November 21, 2007
How much should you charge to wash all the windows in Seattle?
Working on a letterpress animated GIF
How the guy with the red chair got a job
How many golf balls can fit in a school bus? and other Questions you may expect to answer at a Google Job Interview
- "How long have you been bedridden?"
- "Why, not for about twenty years - when my husband was alive"
India's sewage workers: The World’s Worst Job
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October 28, 2007
Manejo de Estres
Nerd headquarters. You can actually take a Nerd Tour of Silicon Valley, and visit such places as Hewlett Packard's Founding Garage
The meeting is over at “I Can Has Cheezburger”
A man owned a small farm in Maine. The IRS claimed he was not paying proper wages to his help and sent an agent out to interview him.
"I need a list of your employees and how much you pay them," demanded the agent.
"Well", replied the farmer, "There's my farm hand who's been with me for 3 years. I pay him $600 a week plus free room and board. The cook has been here for 18 months, and I pay her $500 per week plus free room and board.
Then there's the half-wit who works here about 18 hours every day and does about 90% of all the work around here. He makes $10 per week, and I buy him a bottle of whiskey every Saturday night."
"That's the guy I want to talk to - the half-wit," says the agent.
"That would be me," replied the farmer.
(From Maggie’s Farm)
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August 23, 2007
Be a Happy Worker
We wanted to play around with our oxymoronic call tag and create a Be a Happy Worker poster reminiscent of the communist propaganda posters from the 50's and 60's - with a few twists of our own
Ad of the Week: Englihs Editer Wantd
Even a tasty resume might not help. (From Quipsologies)
How to Get a Job on Craigslist
Dilbert’s magic management necklace
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July 21, 2007
Special skills: Thyping
Job Opening: Horse Ride Assistant. Salary $5/week
"Previous experience: Administrative Assitant. Required high detail orentation and acuracy". Many other actual lines from resumes
I hope to find a position in a small company that has no discernible leadership and a boss who doesn’t care what I do all day. I would like a job that does not require me to file, answer the phones, arrange travel, get coffee, book “spaces”, schedule meetings, file, or update excel spreadsheets. I do not like processing invoices, maintaining time sheets, typing, or filing. But I know I’ll have to all of that and smile like it’s my birthday. The resume I wish I could send out. (From Miss C Recommends)
Scott Adams asks his blog’s readers to describe your own job in one sentence, preferably in a humorously derogatory way. Many hundreds responded
Support the Five Day Weekend. (From Presurfer)
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July 04, 2007
Elbow grease
The stone-age whale hunters who kill with their bare hands
Chinese market culture and other people on the job
And you thought your job was bad
Why it's better to work for MeetUp over Google
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May 11, 2007
Job Titles
Paperback Writer, and Other Job Titles You Could Put in the "Occupation" Field of Your Tax Return to Exact Some Small Measure of Revenge on a Random IRS Employee by Getting an Irritating Song Stuck in His or Her Head
Mining Artifacts. (From Rivets)
New plumber causes £5m mansion to burn down on his first day on the job
Executive Trends: Jacked-Up Job Titles
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March 29, 2007
Pointy-Haired Boss
Steve Martin in Little Shop of Horrors - Be A Dentist
Who are the highest paid janitors from around the country?
Print screen, stress at work. (YouTube. From Armstrong circus)
Hire me or I’ll bite you
I don’t want to work - Please help me to retire, and continue to live a fulfilling life
PHB (above) is every employee's worst nightmare. He wasn't born mean and unscrupulous, he worked hard at it. And succeeded. As for stupidity, well, some things are inborn
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February 08, 2007
Get paid to play with LEGOs all day
LegoLand California is searching for a master model builder
Welcome to The Program: A Guidebook for New Antarctic Workers
Dentists who don’t take their jobs seriously
The simple name plate to the office of Steve Ballmer, CEO of Microsoft, at the company's headquarters. The door opens up to his small office on the 5th floor: Steve Ballmer’s office
Also, Microsoft Interview Questions, actual questions from actual interviews conducted by Microsoft employees on the main campus
When co-workers attack. (From Bits and Pieces)
Thousands Lose Jobs As Michigan Unemployment Offices Close
“No one should ever work.” Bob Black’s 1985 essay, The Abolition of Work: Work is the source of nearly all the misery in the world. Almost any evil you'd care to name comes from working or from living in a world designed for work. In order to stop suffering, we have to stop working.
NSPCO - National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty in Offices
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December 17, 2006
Help wanted
More from DC Lugi on YouTube: Lonely Country Song, the previously-viral Snakes on a Plane Early Auditions (NSFW language) and 44 other videos
Sewer Diver in Mexico City, one of the top contenders to the World's Worst Job
Bob Woodward seeks exceptional research and reporting assistant
Salary of the White House's new Director for Lessons Learned: $106,641. (From Harper's Index)
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December 02, 2006
What Else Do You Do?
When customers ask me, “What else do you do?” they’re operating from the usually correct assumption that waiters are always working on another gig; singing, writing, acting, modeling, etc. However, some of us are really waiters. This is our profession. I could say I’m a writer or blogger but until 50.1% of my income comes from these sources - I’m a waiter.
Most of the time, people ask me if I have another job to make conversation. Occasionally you get the patronizing asshole who only asks the question to make you feel bad. I like to tell these lovely people I’m one of the following……
The Boss animations of Pascal Campion. (His blog)
A look inside the Colt machine gun factory in Hartford, CT.
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October 30, 2006
Office Survival
Back From Yet Another Globetrotting Adventure, Indiana Jones Checks His Mail and Discovers That His Bid for Tenure Has Been Denied
A Visual Guide to Physical Examination
In the 136 years since Christopher Sholes invented the typewriter, the working world has changed. Early typists (almost all men, called "type-writers"), typed with one or two fingers, looking at the keys. Secretaries have truly become professionals. Year-By-Year Chronology Of The Secretarial Profession
“There's a feeling I get when I look to the west
And my spirit is crying for leaving
In my thoughts I have seen rings of smoke through the trees
And the voices of those who stand looking…”
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October 10, 2006
Working With All Boys
One Girl, Twenty One Boys. Sarah Schneider’s photo essay about what it's like to work in an all-male office
The Executive Coloring Book, by Marcie Hans, Dennis Altman & Martin A. Cohen, from 1961
AnalTech, The Logical Choice developed the first commercially prepared TLC plates in 1961. Since that time, we have dedicated our resources to the improvement of TLC technology…
Find Frank a Job, The Game
The Bullshit Job Title Generator
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September 18, 2006
Child labor
Chaos on the job by Packard Jennings
How to Do Nothing at Work, and Get Away With It. No 1: Look busy
Office Space in 30 Seconds, Re-enacted by Bunnies
An infamous memo from MyLackey cofounder Brendon Barnicle berating the company's 65 employees for not putting in 11-hour days, making MyLackey a symbol of the dot-com work ethic. (From 25 Worst Web Sites)
Your paycheque is late.
Expense cheques are late.
None of your software is licensed.
There is no training budget.
- What are the other warning signs that your company is a sinking ship?
Child Labour in the 19th Century
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July 01, 2006
Why are manhole covers round?
If Richard Feynman applied for a job at Microsoft
Silly Job Interview with John Cleese. (YouTube)
My job at an escort agency for Mormons (Cached version of a Premium Nerve Article)
A new job opportunity: Become a Commute Helper
M.D. Obstetrics And Gynecology at Broken Arrow Women's Clinic
Please Help me name our three conference rooms
Summerbirds in the Cellar, the life of an intern. (From Ticklebooth)
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June 21, 2006
Buzzwords gone bad
Interview with an honest boss. (From Ample Sanity)
Piel Island is looking for someone to take over the running of its only pub. With the pub comes the title of King of Piel. (From MetaChat)
The Wanted ads
How Not To Interview (YouTube)
Quit Complaining About Your Job
10 Top Goofs Interns Make
Survey Reveals Most Annoying Terms and Phrases in the Workplace
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May 28, 2006
Will work for peanuts
How to write a proper resignation letter
How I Work, by Bill Gates, chairman and CSA
"Writer's block," "swimmer's ear," and "athlete's foot" are all examples of occupation-specific conditions. Are there any others?
Will work for… ? Will Work For Food Cartoons
Seven Career Killers: Beyond lying on your résumé, stealing office supplies or failing to show up for work
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March 28, 2006
Jobby
Jeff Clark is looking for a marketing job. This is my not-so-subtle attempt to get the best advertising gig out there. You probably get thousands of boring resumes and cover letters every year... but it takes passion + know-how (and a free weekend) to do a website
Illustrations originally published in Medecins Chanteclair, a Parisian artistic and medical revue. The magazine issued twice monthly beginning in 1905 and lasted until around 1935, its circulation mostly confined to the medical profession
Dentist of the Day for March 21st, 2006: Dr. Randall W. Toothaker
Swishy Hispanic Engeineers Unite. (From Gordon Keith). Other unfortunately-named Billionaires
Now you can download Chris Glass’s TPS Report Cover Sheet
Employees tend to quit their bosses, not their companies
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February 12, 2006
When going for a job interview, a good thing to ask is if they ever press charges
Four questions for the freeway exit-ramp beggars -
1. What's the best job you've had?
2. What's the worst job you've had?
3. What's the last job you had?
4. What's your dream job?
How to quit a crappy job - with style
Weapons Made From Office Supplies
The sky is falling - A new office prank
Repost: This Office Sucks
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November 10, 2005
No te pagamos por pensar. Un trabajador sin cerebro es un trabajador feliz. Cállate y haz tu trabajo
From “Slow Wave” - Job environment was not the best
Sergey Brin's Resume (1996)
25 Words That Can Hurt Your Résumé. Instead of making empty claims to demonstrate your work ethic, use brief, specific examples to demonstrate your skills. In other words, show, don't tell
I work with fools, where you can read or anonymously share work related stories about the foolish coworkers and bosses we all deal with daily
“Crap. It's Wednesday afternoon and I already have Friday brain”. Overheard in the Office
Seven Questions Employees Should Ask Before Joining a Startup. If you are receiving employee options, what is the number of fully-diluted outstanding shares?
Alphabetical index of Occupational Titles provided by the United States Department of Labor. From Abalone Diver to Zoo Veterinarian
(Graphic above by Andrew Hickinbottom. Translation by Microsiervos). Many More Unusual Career Moves Here
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October 07, 2005
Tentacle Support
Jeb's Jobs - Episode 1: Technical Support. Written, Directed & Performed by Nick Forshaw
Welcome to the official Office Guns website. It started in a meeting. We were playing bullshit bingo, and on the third round I thought to myself: "Oh my God! Can't someone just shoot that bastard?" I was getting tired of bullshit bingo and was fingering with some office supplies. As a sworn Lego-fan, I always try to connect things together. I was connecting two Maulies, then suddenly one of them flew across the room and hit the boring speaker right on the nose. He got a nose-bleed and had to stop the presentation early
Working with idiots can kill you
Five Things I Hate About Being a Dominatrix in the Summer. Normally, I love my job. I've been a journalist, an editor, a marketing associate, even a radio DJ, but I've never been more intellectually, emotionally and physically stimulated by a job as I have since becoming a professional Dominatrix
So You Wanna Be A "Hooters" Girl? A peek at Hooters employee handbook
Also, True Porn Clerk Stories
Build you own Lego cube. The Top 14 Alternate Terms For 'Cubicle'
New Office Slang: Idea Hamsters - People whose idea generators are always running
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July 28, 2005
Work environment
A visit to Adobe. A visit with the Photoshop engineers at 345 Park Avenue, San Jose, CA. June 16 & 17, 2005
Adventures in Video. Years and years ago, before I was a world class web designer, and before there was Blockbuster, I worked at a mom and pop video shop chain, where I learned a lot of important life lessons worth sharing
Name Your Child According To Your Profession. For example: Lawyer's daughter – Sue. Thief's son - Rob
WAHM.com - The Online Magazine for Work-at-Home Moms
A blog by an Anonymous Lawyer
Why Do You Work So Hard? Is it maybe time to quit your safe job and follow your path and infuriate the establishment? (From Avi Solomon)
Being prepared is half the battle. The 25 most difficult questions you'll be asked on a job interview. (Re-post?)
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June 13, 2005
Johnny Paycheck
Interview Questions from Microsoft, Google, Apple & More. (Found on “How to prepare for interviewing with major Internet companies”)
"Applicant brought her large dog to the interview." Strange But True Job Interview Behaviour
A subject of morbid but peculiar fascination. It's certainly unwholesome to relish the stories of those who are like us, and perhaps greater than us, but who come to spectacularly bad ends, yet such stories provide a certain satisfaction. As we make our way through our own careers in engineering, and deal with our own inevitable failures, there's some comfort in knowing that no matter how badly we screw up, we won't get killed for it. Unlike these Doomed Engineers
My greatest fear is to be known as "that guy at work"
A day in the life of a cookie master
Dilbert by Scott Adams
World Livestock Auctioneer Championship. (From WFMU’s blog)
We are back from an awesome Tony Robbins’s “Unleash the Power Within” retreat. Regular blogging is to resume tomorrow. Many More Unusual Career Choices Here
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April 25, 2005
Out of a job
Odd Todd is Laid off and he has no money! How does he spends the day? Extremely funny. Help a dude recover
Job outlook, earning potential, training & qualifications for Roman Catholic Priests
"Last week I had a bad day at the office. I know you've been feeling down lately at work, so I thought I would share my dilemma with you to make you realize it's not So bad after all… As you know, my office lies at the bottom of the sea. I wear a suit to the office. It's a wetsuit…"
Current employment opportunities at LucasFilm
Poke around Bob’s cube
Breaking news! Beer Truck Loses Load, Creates Traffic Nightmare. (With photo)
Also, reciprocal backslapping: Lots of traffic and some very nice words from The Steel Deal out of the blue. Thank you, Turman!
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March 21, 2005
How to escape a boring job
Pizza Delivery Daze - the many mishaps of being a pizza delivery gopher
The Most Boring Jobs In The World, written by a New Zealand Road Worker
Feel like you’re in the wrong job?
The worst jobs in history: Tanner, rat-catcher, fish-wife, “groom of the stool”, anyone?
A large compensation survey of Marketing professionals 2005.
Also, How much money does a science-fiction writer make? Less than you think. (From ”Reality Carnival”)
The Bureau of Labor Statistics (At the U.S. Department of Labor) maintains an elaborate site with detailed information about many professions. Here’s, for example, their page about Taxi Drivers and Chauffeurs
How we work. We're interested in the habits, rituals and small (and occasionally big) methods people and teams use to get their work done. And in the specific anecdotes and the way people describe their own relationship to their own work. Here's a list of some stories and habits
Jobs Posted By Bloggers or Jobs For Bloggers
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January 31, 2005
Action Verbs For your Resume
Which one is right for you? A simple quiz from TheNetworkAdministrator.com: “Should I become an astronaut, a firefighter, or a system administrator?”
The Becky Klemt Letter, by a lawyer in Laramie, WY. (From ”Bag and Baggage”)
Australian John Lycette’s Not My Type - Life in a modern office
A near-interview with Steve Jobs, nearly conducted on the convention floor by Andy Ihnatko
How to Sell Your Boss. Selling your boss is critical to your success. If you can’t get your boss’s approval when you need it, you are not going to go very far in your career. (From a good blog by Michael Hyatt, “Working Smart”)
Your job sucks, but you can still smile at work all the time
Dumb Action Figures: Say hello to GeekMan, Bossman, and MoneyMan. (From “Sciatica”)
Power Verb List for effective resumes
Top 10 Reasons to Work at Google. No. 11: Gourmet lunches
An oldie: Insults to Use at Work. “This day was a total waste of makeup”
Clientcopia: Stupid Client Quotes. Example:
Client: "This looks like crap. Why did you make it like this?"
Me: "You asked me too."
Client: "If you knew it was going to look like this, why did you even bother?"
Me: "Because I charge you by the hour."
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Picture above: “Our agents at work”, taken at the Champion Company, around 3PM. Many More Unusual Professions Here
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November 27, 2004
Uncover the ancient secrets of Babylon
Steve Gedikian writes about the end of an era at Winamp
Job Interview at Totalitarian Burger
Ten Questions You Should Never be Asked in an Interview
Dream jobs from Outside Magazine
Making the rounds: Alexandre Gueniot's Musical CV, looking for a new job as a software developer. Also, Whack your boss
A follow up on the FedEx logo posting: Interview with the designer of the subliminal arrow
The Worst Jobs in Science: The Sequel. Tampon Squeezer, Tick Dragger, Iraqi Archaeologist, Anal-Wart Researcher
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October 28, 2004
Looking for a new job?
The blog “Low Culture” is now hiring: Publisher, Pastry chef, Writer, Housekeeping and Cleaning, Animal Handler, more. Apply within. Contact Human Resources via email
“Its only a flesh wound” and Seig Heil, from ”Waiter Rant”. (Going to be famous very soon…)
Beltbuckles for various trades, but none for software engineers…
Memo to all employees: Company Policy Regarding Eels. 1. Eels should not distract co-workers. Bringing an eel to work can be a powerful act of self-expression, particularly when it can perform tricks or is brightly colored.
The International Butler Academy, in the small village of Warnsveld, near the city of Zutphen in The Netherlands
Marty Prather, the Cardinals "Sign Man"
Making the rounds: MART (Minnesota Association of Rogue Taxidermists) was founded in 2004
Extreme Accounting: A new phenomenon that pushes accountants to their limits – and beyond
(Photo of waiter from Patricia Wells). Much to know about Hiring and Firing Here
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October 10, 2004
Unusual Jobs
A beautiful Quicktime documentary of how Letterpress works
Getting New Customers: A Dry Cleaning Story. A local dry cleaning company has taken the leg up on competition, and I’ve happily given them all my business. Not only that - they convinced me to pay more money than I was paying at the previous cleaner I had used for 3 years. How did it happen?
Things You'd Love to Say at Work, but Can't: “I don't know what your problem is, but I'll bet it's hard to pronounce”
Three things about plumbing (From our Rod W.):
- Payday on Thursday
- Shit always comes down
- Don’t chew your fingernails
Jose Perez on Medicine, an exhibition of satirical art related to the practice of modern medicine
Finished Work. The image below is a graph of the company's stock price over the period I was working with them. Notice the correlation
Scientific Method Man - The man who cracked the 400-year-old mystery of the Voynich manuscript
Tricks of the trade is becoming a book.
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August 25, 2004
"I believe you have my stapler"
Top 100 law firms in terms of billing, with highest slot at $1.3B gross revenue. But how much do lawyers earn? Median Base Salaries by Associate Yea