Working Weak

An Entertainment Blog about the Staffing Industry

The good, the bad, and the ugly about the staffing industry. Recommended that those easily offended, expecting political correctness, or looking to argue should move right along to somewhere else.

Months...they're difficult

I haven't been in school for...well...a long time. Let me date myself, yet again, since I enjoy it so much. The fond memories I have of...

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Jul 62 min read

It doesn't matter if it matches, it's still wrong

I was on vacation last week and stayed in a chain hotel that had been converted from an old bank building built in the 1920s, which was a...

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Jun 294 min read

I was gonna say...

I was going to start this blog by asking if you've ever paid attention to how someone speaks, more so than the words that come out of...

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Jun 222 min read

Figure it out

I don’t like change. I’m probably going to die in the house I live in right now to avoid the stress of finding a different address,...

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Jun 152 min read

It. Is. Required.

Does anyone else subscribe to the notion that there are only seven original storylines in human history, and everything otherwise created...

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Jun 83 min read

75 Minutes

I was examining my calendars earlier this week and appreciating that we schedule a lot of things in life: work meetings, dinner...

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Jun 12 min read

Building Numbers

Buildings have numbers! OMG! I know, right?! You would think that would be the end of the post, but I feel obligated to explain further....

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May 112 min read

Valentines Day

I’m old enough to remember when Valentine’s day was a legitimate holiday that wasn’t trendy to hate. It was a celebration of love!...

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May 42 min read

Photo Id

I passed through a TSA checkpoint at an airport last week (Is that redundant? Are there any TSA checkpoints not at airports?), and was...

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Apr 273 min read

Distances are hard

My high school chemistry class spent an inordinate amount of time on unit conversions. At least, I thought it was an inordinate amount of...

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Apr 62 min read

Time wasters

I don't like it when people waste my time. I don’t want to know who you work for, who you picked to win on your last bracket, what you...

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Mar 303 min read

Why can't you just mail it?

Write what you know, they say. Well, what I know during the first quarter of every year is that tax season makes us all nuts. Ergo, you...

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Mar 163 min read

Mail forwarding

I don’t like change. I do pretty much the same thing every week, eating about the same food, walking about the same route with my dog,...

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Mar 94 min read

Did you get the text?

Do you remember when texting was the epitome of casual, informal communication? No professional would be caught dead sending a text, of...

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Mar 22 min read

Still on the Line

Having worked in retail for more than half my career—yes, shocking as it may seem, Yours Truly is no stranger to a name tag and a colored...

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Feb 164 min read

Fly on the wall

My coworker recently participated in a UEI (unemployment hearing) case for a woman who is...well, hard to describe. I think the facts...

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Feb 94 min read

Time Traveling

To this day, it still blows my mind how much of a challenge it is for certain people to know their own schedule. Example: Several weeks ...

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Feb 22 min read

Don't give a damn about procedure

My state has a program called ESST (Employee Safe and Sick Time) where a worker earns one hour of sick time for every thirty hours...

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Jan 263 min read

I'm not your mom

There were some recent internal changes at my job, and a couple of clients were reassigned to me. Not new clients, but new to me. Not a...

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Jan 193 min read

I didn't even try

I understand that being an adult is hard. Truly, I do. I personally prefer being an adult to being a child, and I know that may be a bit...

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Jan 122 min read

Hello

I started this blog because one of my siblings pushed me into it...But also to give you a glimpse into my thoughts and experiences as a staffing agent.

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