The Beating Path

Yesterday was a banner day on the employment front… meh. So I spent all afternoon cleaning up after the behavior of an ostensibly professional member of the staff who, for whatever reason, decided it would be a good day to pull a psychobilly freakout on one of the more valuable members of my crew. This…

Ready. Steady. Go?

When did they start spelling ‘Monday’ w-e-d-n-e-s-d-a-y? Another day, another meeting. Another meeting, another [uncompensated] responsibility. Another [uncompensated] responsibility, another step closer to the door. You don’t get a web app developer *and* a babysitter for substantially less than $40K/year. I don’t care if it’s BFE Nebraska. Take away the intangible benefits like regular working…

Meh-nday

So you get in to work after an okay if not amazing weekend and start rabbiting away with the shuffling of email and checking up on reports and the managing of log files and whatever else it is you do to start getting into the work groove.  Then you get a phone call from your…