• Scammy Utah and Proof that Your Kid Is an Adult

    Scammy Utah and Proof that Your Kid Is an Adult

    You know your kids are adults when they get scammed by an incorporated business for the first time. 🤗 Not a prince with an inheritance. Not a buyer who needs them to cash check and return $800 of the $850, which someone tried to pull on my son a few weeks ago. But an actual,…

  • Job Search Status: Crickets…

    Job Search Status: Crickets…

    I’m incredibly behind. My goal — apply for 200 jobs in 30 days on Indeed — is stupid so I’m acting like a child and refusing to participate with my self-imposed goal, and I’m using the excuse that it’s the most mind-numbingly painful and depressing experiment ever and I shouldn’t be expected to do this.…

  • Indeed and the Very Dumb Idea

    Indeed and the Very Dumb Idea

    My Indeed experiment is feeling like a really dumb idea. First, 200 resumes in 30 days as a normal human is crazy. I managed to shoot off about 16 last week, which was painful because they required me to read at least that many job descriptions. I should be more Gen Z and just randomly…

  • If job hunting sucks, why are so many people doing it?

    If job hunting sucks, why are so many people doing it?

    Applying for jobs blows. That’s not news but it is something that’s driven into my brain every time I look at another vapid job postings on Indeed. To compensate, I’ve become like Gen Z and don’t read the full things — more accurately, I don’t read anything, which is amazing b/c I’m Gen X and…

  • 30 days, 200 resumes with Indeed

    30 days, 200 resumes with Indeed

    Like everyone these days, I hate my job. I want to say it’s because I hate my boss or I hate my employer, but really it’s the job I hate. It’s not the job I was hired to do 17 months ago, but it is the job I very specifically told the hiring committee I…

  • Silence is bullshit.

    My spouse has a way of not saying anything while having a conversation. Like nothing. At all. Or maybe just an occasional word uttered too low for anyone to hear. And the other person? They’re not talking either. It’s weird. And inanely boring. It’s not like these quiet conversations involve a ton of eye contact…

  • Dry January — is that a full month?

  • Your server doesn’t actually care when you’re lying.

    I just read this headline at Food & Wine: “Your server knows when you’re lying,” which is really only half a headline. The other half: “and they don’t care.” Granted, I haven’t waited tables in more than 20 years but I’m certain the sentiment hasn’t changed. In fact, the only actual reason I ever checked…

  • Why do businesses keep pretending that hybrid work is amazing?

    A little over a month ago, I was asked by a recruiting team to put together a blog post on why their employees loved working in a hybrid workplace. I suggested that we make this feel genuine and include employee voices and was promptly provided with a short list of “friends-of-the-hybrid-workplace”: employees who would give…

  • “Can you wear sweatpants to a concert?” And other questions to ask on your first emergence since lockdowns.

    I’m not sure what came over me when I responded to an offer of 2 free tickets to a concert tonight. Likely it was some primal instinct leftover from my college when any free opportunity was the right one. Regardless, I said yes, and the next thing I knew, my husband and I were changing…