Category Archives: Work (WORK!!?!??!)

Maynard G. Krebs is frightened

I feared this would happen

Posted on January 28, 2011 by Marchbanks

L was laid off today, part of a ten percent headcount reduction in her agency.

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If It’s Tuesday, This Must Be Belgium

Posted on January 26, 2011 by Marchbanks

Yesterday morning my dotted-line manager (P&L) came up, to ask whether I thought I could find a used-exchange match for one of our big-dog Roswell gaming portables, in a real hurry.  Turned out that he’d gotten an SOS from someone … Continue reading →

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Just when you thought it was safe

Posted on December 7, 2010 by Marchbanks

I like working where I am at the Empire, but at times like this, with limited backup and nobody else willing to cross-train, it gets overwhelming. Continue reading →

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Back in the exchange business

Posted on December 6, 2010 by Marchbanks

Dammit, I was enjoying not having to horse-trade with customers every day. Continue reading →

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All my joints HURT

Posted on November 16, 2010 by Marchbanks

I’ve shoveled two cubic yards of compost out of a six-by-three-by-four pen, one coal-scoop at a time. Continue reading →

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Oh jeebusfuck

Posted on August 15, 2010 by Marchbanks

Somebody cracked the Land of Færie’s Web site last week. Continue reading →

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If you stand around long enough

Posted on July 19, 2010 by Marchbanks

In which I get invited to speak before a group I belonged to for twenty years, but don’t any longer. Continue reading →

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More connected to the plane crash than I thought

Posted on February 18, 2010 by Marchbanks

I was startled to read that someone L and I have known for years escaped being killed by the skin of his teeth. Continue reading →

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And in the Department of More Cheerful News

Posted on February 15, 2010 by Marchbanks

As of last Monday, T got her promotion to a bigger store—annual gross sales in low seven figures. Continue reading →

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High on the list of things I did NOT want to do on New Year’s Day

Posted on January 1, 2010 by Marchbanks

Diving headfirst into a clean OS reinstall on Gráinne at the Land of Færie. Continue reading →

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