SelfAbsorbed.ME : ‘It’s Your Life, We Just Write it Funnier’

What Would Matilda Do? Part 2

Happy Friday to all my corporate robots out there. Let’s end the work week with some fluffy writing about everyone’s favorite heroine, or at least one you can’t snort through a rolled up twenty dollar bill. Situation: After getting up from your desk at work to get yourself a delicious Fresca from the company fridge, you come [...]

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The Job Interview

Just to update everyone on my constantly changing and ever-so-exciting life, I am still unemployed, and still feeling, looking, and behaving like a lump of mashed potatoes. However, there have been some positive developments in the form of job interviews. I had one last Monday for a receptionist position, and I was contacted today for [...]

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Video Conferencing, Ruining People’s Lives

The New York Times is reading my mind, stealing article ideas from inside my head again. Videoconferencing has been a topic on my ‘to-rant’ list for sometime now and last week, NYT did an article about the resistance to video calls, an article which I can’t for the life of me now find despite how [...]

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Inappropriate Office Gifts

So it’s that time of year where all the unfortunate soulless drones who work in offices (myself included) are encouraged or required to participate in “fun” holiday activities. Normally one of these activities would be a company Christmas party, which might include free holiday-themed cocktails (like Peppermintinis!), fancy finger foods (like pigs in blankets!), and [...]

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