Friends and Colleagues

A form letter I like to use for writing appropriate goodbye letters to hated workplaces:
Friends and colleagues!
On my last day here at (workplace), I want to express how (cheap lie) I am to have worked with all of you. My time here has been a (poor travel metaphor), and my experiences have really (sappy homile [...]

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Aw, shit

I am going to try to keep this short. When I don’t, my mind spins off in a thousand directions.
I’m not happy at my job. It’s not about the work. It’s about the people, and the management. There are many problem areas here, but for me, at this moment, it’s boiled down to one. If [...]

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My goddamn future

I used to have such a tunnel vision of my life. It was all so obvious and so set; overachieve in college, work as many hours as possible at a job, overachieve in law school or public policy at Harvard while working as many hours as possible, overachieve at getting a career and work maybe [...]

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WELCOME TO CRANKY

Please take note of the Things I Can Do Without at Work:
1. A running commentary. I don’t have an office. My desk is in an open work space. If I had to make a list of the things that would make me flee toward another job cackling, the desk situation would be a very close [...]

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Busy busy busy

BUSY
I have a bunch of stuff from my reader I am meaning to link to because it’s all so cool and my reader is just exploding now but I am BUSY
WORK EXPLODED
CO-WORKERS EXPLODED
TODAY THERE IS MINI-GOLF
I AM IN NO PLACE FOR MINI-GOLF
Here is something I hate, more than most things, and it happens at least [...]

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