I’m back at the ol’ office temping while the new EA’s on holiday for 2 weeks. The desk where I used to sit is prettied up to the taste of the fabulous young lady who took over me.
5 minute talks in the kitchen can get you as far as the weather, or squeek a door open just enough […]

Remnants of documents and a glass of half empty water stand still on a desk.
Twenty people got laid off yesterday, by noon the company looked empty. There were tears and shock and a very difficult speech by the boss (difficult for him as well as for everybody else). He talked about numbers and stats […]

Office freezer took a blow.
Someone’s mischeivious bomb? Or funny slip up?
Delighted with the resulting art, I grabbed a camera.

Prodded by friends to ‘follow thy bliss’, I’ve come to welcome several turn of events.
I was going to stick it out with the current job longer, because for one thing, none of my roommates knew what our situation was after the house got foreclosed. The owner no longer owns our rooms, and the kind lady […]

Unveiling of a new product, pink and brown balloons everywhere in the showroom. The virgin hype of clients, and the relief and excitement of those on the project team had gently faded by late afternoon, and replaced by the sound of quiet typing again.  
For a while it was calm, until we saw Tim tip […]

Business people.
Wired up, acid, static, electric. Buzzed, detached from where we came, our roots, our soil.
It’s all about the filing, tapping into that part of the brain, tap, tapping it, gorging it like a worm living in soft meat, categorizing, sorting, organizing by colour, ordering it in numbers, BIg to small, small to bIG, sub-dividing […]

Pop.
Pop.
Pop pop.
Obsessive
compulsive
popping.
And a mountain of satisfaction.

She plans to wake up early to practice piano and pack her lunch.  She plans to go out jogging before cooking dinner. Hit and miss, 3 out of 5. She still puts on a good show, on stage on weekend nights.
My boss is late this morning, I think he’s got a hang over. He plans to […]

Cleared out a good patch of forest today, copying documents after documents of assorted numbers. My boss wanted 3 copies of 4 binders for a meeting with a big shot. Munching on a piece of bread for lunch, I occupied two desk-tops, figuring out what goes where under the pressure of a ticking businessman’s wrist […]

My boss took me and two others to a fancy lunch today, to celebrate Secretary’s Day.
“Do you shave your head every day?” one of the girls asked boldly.
We raised our eyebrows, laughed out loud, continued to joke about bald this, bald that, my boss’s face a little red with the unexpected attention to the state […]