Last night’s dream was a grand humiliation. I had been recruited for membership in a think tank, despite my protestations that I wasn’t really an expert in anything. The reply was that they put together a combination of savants and ordinary people, including some like me who they felt fit in the middle, just to […]
From time to time, an interval that included yesterday, I share stories of my gainful employment at what I now call the Job From Hell. Most of the stories are appalling or horrific. But it is impossible even for a place that abusive to be one-hundred percent awful all the time, and so I here […]
It used to be a running gag at the Job From Hell that it was damned near impossible to be fired. You show up for a week wearing the same sweat-stained clothes, your hair plastered to your forehead with grease, smelling so horrific that the elevator still carries your reek three hours after you used […]