TheJobBored

My favorite stories are as follows:

Employee eats 32 vending machine items for charity
Four women fired for gossiping
Employee took 1 million screws home from factory
Workers killed after seeking raises

I agree with Fark… it looks like whoever compiled this list just went through the Fark archives. Still, it’s humerous.
15 Weirdest Work Stories of 2007 (MSN Careers)

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If you’re a lazy typer like me, then sometimes the spell checker is not your best friend.
Once, in a major college term paper situation, I meant to type “gentle” and instead typed “gentile.” This gave new meaning to the phrase I was typing: “gentle interrogation techniques.”
How many times have I meant to type “public” but […]

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Via productivity weblog DumbLittleMan comes this pretty comprehensive list of The Pros And Cons of Coffee Drinking. Most interesting to me:
Antioxidants. Coffee is loaded with antioxidants like chlorogenic acid and melanoidins.
Who knew? And…
# Liver cirrhosis. Coffee drinking may protect against liver cirrhosis, especially alcoholic cirrhosis.
Now I know why I follow a night of JagerBombs […]

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Taking time off for the Holidays is not like taking time off for summer vacation. In this case, everyone else will probably be away next week as well. You don’t have to worry as much about the work you’ll miss, since not much work is likely to be done.
Still, preparing ahead of time for your […]

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Wired continues it’s seemingly bi-monthly series of slideshows showing us either the best or the worst in cubicle living. In this case, it’s the best… 8 cubicles redesigned in creative ways. To quote Monty Python, where’s my medieval torture dungeon/philosophical salon-themed cube design?
h/t Lifehacker 

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Hmmm. Meethinks I have created a monster.
At the end of last night’s post about more layoff rumors at Citigroup and Businessweek, I asked readers to send in anonymous tips about new layoff rumors.
I got two emails about Palm possibly laying off several hundred people. Now, I have no relation to Palm and no real […]

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I’ve got a more comprehensive organizational post in the works, but I’m in the middle of preparing my mobile office for a two week trip to Florida. I needed to bring my Firefox links with me on my laptop for blogging purposes. I didn’t know how to do it. But I figured it out.
So, I […]

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If you have career or job search question you would like answered on this blog, click here to Ask Brian.
Reader Mike from Somewhere writes:
“My old job wants me back. They have NOT made a definitive offer, but they seem to feel it’s only a matter of time before it trickles through HR and it’s more […]

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We commented on this a while ago, but we got an email earlier today that said Citigroup is going to go ahead and lay off as many as 5-10% of their workforce. This is less than the 45,000 workers we heard about during the first wave of rumors, but that still puts it in the […]

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Like the office holiday party, holiday gift giving around the office is often a perilous endeavor. There are so many social, political, cultural, class and emotional landlines to navigate.
I’ve always had a lot of respect for people who just opt out of the whole thing, but I’ve never had the guts to do so myself.
So […]

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