TheJobBored

A weekly wrap-up of the forwards, email, jokes, You Tube videos and water cooler chatter making its way around America’s offices this week.
I think we all pretty much assumed that Bill O’Reilly would be nightmare boss to work for. Perhaps you’ve already seen the clip floating around of a 20-years younger O’Reilly freaking out on […]

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“Yeah, I’m trying to lure these kids into my booth. But kids are very wary of being lured these days. Thank you, Dateline.”
“All of these jobs suck. I would rather live jobless, on a beach somewhere, off the money from a large inheritance… than to have to work in any one of this crapholes.”
“Justin is […]

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According to the Divine Caroline, the simple excuse of “I’m not feeling well” is not getting as much traction as a valid missed-work excuse anymore.
She thinks that the issue is that the notion of work and workplace is “becoming abstracted, allowing for the possibility of video-conferencing and telecommuting, there is often nothing wrong with working […]

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At 5.1%, the current unemployment rate is relatively low by historical standards. But the percentage of jobless Americans of prime working age — 13.1% for men 25 to 54 years old — is historically high. Most of them do not qualify as unemployed, but they are nonetheless out of work.
This discrepancy exists because the government’s […]

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Best lines from last night’s episode of The Office:
“Why Am I being forced to come in tomorrow and pretend a website made sales that I made?”
“It’s not the horniness, it’s the loneliness.”
“If I’m dead, you guys have been dead for weeks.”
“I’m a Bank Teller. Ryan told me to always tell women you work in finance.”
“I […]

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I’m more of an Onion man myself, but if you get your at-work laughs from Dilbert, you might like to hear that the Dilbert.com website has gotten a bit of an upgrade.
h/t WebWare.
There are animated versions of Dilbert strips available, as well as an extensive expansion of the Dilbert archives that will eventually include every […]

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I apologize that there will be no further posts from me this week. I will be in Ecuador, pictured below.
(Actually, I’m already there… such is the magic of pre-posting!)
Anyhoo… I won’t be in an area with an internet connection (or, at least, I will be shocked if the internet reaches out to where I am… […]

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Just in time for lunch hour, Readers Digest has a handy list of 15 ways to maximize your lunch hour.
No, it’s not a list of ways to squeeze work into your lunch hour. But it is heavy on ways to eat healthier and with greater ease. And yes, there’s a suggestion or two to get […]

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Regular readers of this blog will remember that before the writer’s strike, I did a weekly rundown of episodes of NBC’s The Office.
You can imagine my delight when I rang up my TIVO last night and saw that The Office was back.
The Dinner Party was The Office’s version of Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? […]

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There’s no doubt that the 1980s was the golden age of cable access shows. In this age of video cameras that fit in your pocket and You Tube stardom, it’s hard to imagine now the sheer innocence and experimentation that people felt when suddenly they could be on the TV too!
Best Week Ever has a […]

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