I started a new work assignment today. Pardon me if I'm light on some details, or even on most of them, but I think it's safer to borrow a cue from Jack Webb, and change the names to protect the innocent. (Or something along those lines ( Read more... )

It happens that I am visiting one of Louisville's malls earlier today. And as I am walking past one store, I notice that it is conspicuously decorated with signs announcing that the store is closing ( Read more... )

Smoking. I am more than certain that if you are looking carefully, you will be seeing any number of cutesy posters that either are telling you not to light up, or are trying to get you to stop smoking. Personally, I am finding the vast majority of these posters on the annoying, because they are trying too hard to be cute in getting across their ( Read more... )

My assignment at the department store has ended. That doesn't bother me; it had lasted twice as long as I was originally told it would, and it was all right while it lasted. What bothers me is how I learned it had ended ( Read more... )

I checked my answering machine when I got home last night. I finally got the message that I had been waiting to hear for more than a few weeks. It was from Mr. Wiggles's manager, and he was wanting to schedule an interview for the position Mr. Wiggles told me about several weeks ago ( Read more... )

As I mentioned, at my current assignment, I have very little in the way of supervision. For the most part, this isn't a problem. Once we get our instructions for what needs to be done that day, we get on with the job ( Read more... )

On occasion, I have heard something that could be considered a Bad Idea being compared to giving a box of hand grenades to a chimpanzee. I received a firsthand experience of why this comparison is so apt last night at work ( Read more... )

I suppose the best way to describe my sense of humor is that Charles Addams has been a pretty strong influence. I find things funny that others . . . don't. I learned that at work last night ( Read more... )

I'll start with a quote from The Beatles this time, because it seems appropriate. "I get by with a little help from my friends." Last night seems to be a perfect illustration ( Read more... )

Scroll down for a minute, and take a quick look at the last entry. As I mentioned in that entry, last week, I took a bunch of pre-interview tests for a position, and as I also mentioned, I made it through the tests. Today was the second step -- the actual interview ( Read more... )