I know I am not the only manager to hear those words this week and I know I don't work for the only company that needs to save money to show earnings

I think the title of the new movie that just came out this week is very appropriate to what everyone fantasizes about when they are frustrated at work

Where I work there is a brand manager who works to grow and create more brand awareness. In the process of growing the brand, the manager puts togethe

Once in a while I leave the office and feel as though I have accomplished my tasks for the day. Usually though, I leave the office with items swirlin

I don't want to hear the details of your latest annual exam. Especially because you are not really telling me, but you are speaking so openly and a

Does your boss tell you to work faster and smarter...I mean come on...who is actually motivated by those phrases. I think it is absurd to think that

Today at work I kept get getting an anonymous ip address trying to ping my machine every time I opened the internet.  So, after two or three t

I have only read two chapters of Tina Fey's new book and I really like it. I am not a huge 30 Rock Fan but loved her work on SNL and Mean Girls. Enou

I'm currently a contractor in DC at a federal government agency and want to shoot myself almost everyday.  Ok, that's a bit extreme, but somet

I usually don't feel trapped by the work week but I am so desperate for a day off that I am literally counting down the days until my vacation. &nb

Who hasn't had a TGIF moment? I left work yesterday and was thinking Thank F*ckin God it its friday. Work is just exhausting.  It used to be t

This is the month of selling for me and that means traveling and eating a lot of grilled chicken salads across the country.  So far in the las

it is so true that the occasional cocktail with a covworker is so much better than any other bonding activity. one of my covworkers and i went to a

I think that what every company needs is a new direction once in a while.  Out with the old and in with the old. And I don't think that it sho

This week was very frustrating--I have  begun to think that we will never achieve our sales goals. This is not because of our sales efforts bu

Acronyms at work drive me crazy! I think that companies that try to motivate their employees with catchy acronymms don't understand how to really m

In thinking about the modern workplace--the corporation always talks about how much they believe in the people who work at the organization and tha

I figured out why some offices close during a snow storm. It is not because the roads are too bad, nor is it because of the 5 inches of snow fallin

Corporations really lack perspective.  All the modern corporation can think about is short term gain.  And frankly that is all they

Right now at work we are launching a few new products.  And one corporate product takes priority over another product.  Unfortunately&nbs

Remember that author who wrote Don't Sweat the Small Stuff--well he was right!  This week I realized that a quarter of the time at work is spe

It seems that every Sunday I find myself in front of my computer working for my job.  In this economy I can't really say that I mind, simply I

One would think that with all of the unease at my office-the leftover fear of prior layoffs and the continuing unemployment in the rest of the coun

Work stinks!  I mean I like my job, but my work place literally stinks! Every day I walk into the building I smell paint or something that rem

I think that everyone would agree that we are all working too hard for our paychecks. I know in my group we downsized two people and still have to ac

Over a year ago I reserved the domain name Tales from Cubeland because I thought that it was the right time to start a website which would contai

Day 1, Hour 2, minute 5. I've been sitting around for the first 2 hours of the job, in a chair in a room full of people on the phone. I've

It was a bright sunny day back in 2005. I working in an office with a bunch of other young 20s people, we were always joking around and Im sure pissi

This story brings me back to my second job out of college. It was a simpler time, back in the year 2002, after the the airplanes crashed in

So... I was working at a company let's call them the "Stairs" site. The idea of the website was to get highly paid people to pay us a monthly fee to

I felt that I wanted to divulge some things that I have stolen from work. So here is a nice list and some explanations..Pens - umm... oops?S

i knew i was done working at my current job when they stopped letting us order office supplies