Category: In Which We Mock Our Employers

The company dress code says that woman shall wear tailored suits or separates or dresses. The company dress code is largely ignored in my area. I’ve watched it morph from a) blazer, blouse, and pants to b) sweater, blouse, and pants to c) scarf, blouse, and pants to d) blouse and pants and I have…

I was plugging away at TeddyJ, rolling the rock up the hill, when a company email came in offering a Special Company Event Opportunity. I registered for it the instant I read the first sentence, not because I wanted it so much, but because it’s the type of thing other people want, and you have…

I was at work and invited someone to pedeconference. This person was too young to have watched The West Wing and wasn’t familiar with the term. They were familiar with “walk and talk,” though. Later that day, I had a lot of urgent work to get done and I had a meeting at the same…

Last week I was sitting in my pajamas, developing some on-line training for my job at TeddyJ, when the doorbell rang. I was wearing my pajamas, but a bra had come in the mail earlier and I had tried it on, and Gary was in the house snoring away at 2 pm, so I went…

I worked almost twenty years for my previous company, code-named Elliott. The very impressive founder of that company wrote a book a few years ago, and instead of writing a biography of her life, she wrote a biography of her company. She even dedicated it to the employees. I immediately went to the index to…

Our entire team took part in a phone meeting the other day. The bosses called the meeting to let us know that our leader of ten years was moving on, and our leader’s leader aka our ‘Grand Leader’ aka Rex Dangervest wanted to weigh in and say reassuring things. Suddenly the phone meeting went into echo…

Remember when I bought the Lego that looked like my new boss? I did a little editing on the mug, and here he is: Since he protested earlier that he doesn’t have as much hair as Rex Dangervest, I removed the Lego snap-on hair and used a Sharpie to draw his actual haircut underneath. I…

When Gary walked off his job, he brought home ten boxes of computer books. He had assembled that library over his entire career: whenever he heard of a new language or software, he’d buy a book on it in case he might need to use it later. After he quit and/or retired (quitired?), he moved…

There’s this co-worker. Let’s call him Rex. Let’s call him Rex, because he looks more than a bit like Rex Dangervest from the Lego movie. I was watching the trailer for the new Lego movie when I noticed the similarity. Same stubble and snarky grin. Work “Rex” has shorter hair. He protested that point when…

Sometimes I chew gum when I am hungry at work. My work area has recently been rehabbed, and part of the rehab is the recycling station. Paper / Recycle / Landfill / Compost. I am stymied on where to throw my used gum. I no longer have my own trash can, and I chew too…