My boss at a bakery was "an ex cop" and always forgot his loaded gun in the bathroom.  What a dipshit.

I found a gun in an ancient file box a few years ago, helping my father clean out tons of obsolete files from his law office basement. There was enough corrosion that this little thing was seized up & could be used as nothing more than a blunt object.

One the sites I work at has a fee. It’s a weird work around that we don’t take this pass that normally covers seniors because we have to have the money to actually fix the stuff in the building and the money goes to this big agency pot. etcetc.

I was 16 and had no car or license but my stepmother thought I ought to get a job despite being at her house in a small town where the grocery store was already staffed. I tried to get a job at the ice cream stand.

Has anyone heard of Mystic Seaport? It’s living history museum, whaling times, boat building, scenes were shot there for the movie Amistad. My first summer job was there, I was one of the people who got dress up in old timey outfits! Sounds great right? My 16 year old self was all ready to imagine myself as a tragic…

My dad’s boat motor exploded due to a bad set of spark plugs sold to him by the local marina. After berating them and negotiating how to fix the motor, they asked, “is there anything else we can do to make this better?” He said, “Yeah you can give my 14 year old daughter a job.”

Thank you. For more College Me adventures you can read about the time I witnessed a jell-o based assault:

My first job was as a chambermaid in a cheap, non-chain motel along Rte 1. It was close enough to beaches for people to use as a vacation stay, but far enough away that it couldn’t charge high rates.

Not even my first job, but an internship at a small but respected industry magazine owned by Conde Nast (I think they owned much more in the early 2000s than they do now).

Oh, mine is a simple tale as old as time. At my first job, I found I was able to do a pretty spot-on impression of the general manager. Many a time, I regaled co-workers with my act, which included his gait and mannerisms. You know where this is headed, right? Yep. One afternoon, I was entertaining the troops when…

Going from poli sci college student to renown astrophysics expert in 12 years. You go *DR* Lewis!

Some good teasing in this episode

From Wikipedia: “Gaetz grew up in a house that was used in the film The Truman Show. As of 2018, his parents still live in that house, in Seaside, Florida. A sign on their white picket fence says ‘the Truman house’.” Yes, this is a person who I can trust as an authority on who the REAL cowgirls are.

Ugh, the point about Claudia’s age is especially relevant. Back when Cheryl Strayed was writing her Dear Sugar column, she talked about a job she had with teenage girls, many of whom were being horrifically treated by family members--we’re talking “my mom’s boyfriend tried to drown me with a garden hose and left me…

“The enemy-of-the-people media focus on the gas chambers, the forced sterilizations, the euthenasia of the disabled, but they never mention the fact I built all the autobahns and love animals.”

I also hate that people seem to make no distinction between “not doing as much as I am/doing your best” and “doing absolutely nothing”. Not to mention that society seems to have basically decided that interactions don’t count as long as they’re in service of capitalism. I’ve had to go into work for the entire…

A friend of mine, Becca Schuh, a freelance writer and bartender, told me this was partly the source of her frustration when, soon after outdoor dining opened, she saw people using Twitter as a soapbox to argue that it was unethical to patronize restaurants because of the risks to service workers.

I work daily with Covid cases (remotely) and honestly fully burnt myself out with a workload that increased exponentially and was just.so.sad that I finally relented and got the hell out for a vacation week.

Jezeus knows I’ve made my share of snarky comments about how stupid and thoughtless people are. But yeah, the fact is we were lied to and abandoned and deliberately set against each other right from the start by the rancid tangerine in the WH for his own purposes. There was no way the online bashing wasn’t going to…

The Archer/Bob’s Burgers crossover is still one of my favorites. It made sense in a lot of ways, and while Bob’s only factored in at the beginning and end, it played into the sensibilities of both series pretty damn well.