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Temporary Insanity Is Driving Me To Drink! 10 Aug 2013 | 10:24 am
We wrapped up the project we've been working on at Disorganization Inc. on Thursday and were told we'd be off on Friday and to "have a nice weekend". Ahhhh! Three entire blissful days without needing...
Could the end of Temporary Insanity be Nigh? 25 Jul 2013 | 08:22 am
It appears that things are wrapping up where I've been working. While I am sad to see the paycheck go, I can't say that I will miss the people I've been working with and I'll be glad to get my life ba...
Continued Temporary Insanity 21 Jul 2013 | 09:22 am
So, I am still working the temp gig that started back at the end of May. The one what was supposed to be for four days. I think the first week of August will be the end, but more than once the end of...
Further Temporary Insanity 9 Jun 2013 | 08:24 am
Well, my friends, it has been quite the saga here in Career Catastrophe Land. I was called on Wednesday and told to report back to Disorganization, Inc. for a two week graveyard shift gig. Ok, nice s...
Temporary Insanity 4 Jun 2013 | 09:57 am
So, I got a call last week for a short-term temp job and because I desperately needed the money and because I had nothing else really in the pipeline, I took the job. The assignment was supposed to b...
Don't Get Me Started 10 May 2013 | 10:29 am
So, about 4 weeks ago, I was all excited because I was going to be able to stop the "out of work" clock. I had a job. Sure, it was a temp gig, but there was allegedly a good chance that I was going ...
Brief Update 3 Apr 2013 | 09:22 pm
I wish I could tell you that progress had been made. But really, it hasn't. I had another phone interview and got moved to the testing phase... scored 95% on the testing (they consider anyone who sco...
Runnin' in the hamster wheel... 21 Mar 2013 | 09:50 am
This week has been a dizzying array of phone calls and emails and interviews and testing. I feel like I've been in constant "run" mode. It's after midnight. I need to be up at 6AM for an early appoi...
Desperate?! 14 Mar 2013 | 11:01 am
I've now had three agencies tell me that they don't think they can help me and/or that they will not represent me based on how long I've been out of work. When people ask me "what have you been doing...
And maybe I'll be elected Pope... 21 Feb 2013 | 12:16 pm
I had an interview the other day that was three hours long... Three hours in a hot conference room with no airflow. It was for an entry-level job that pays less than I make on unemployment. I met wit...
