This comic is posted just about in time for the current Silly Season, but its origins go far back. I may one day have to tell about my experience as a local, county, and state delegate during the 2004 insanity.[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
As I mentioned in the previous strip, I was a temp assigned to an HMO to enter data from their customer surveys. I was hired in late September, and they were sure that I’d have enough work to keep me[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Back when they were still known as HMOs (“Health Maintenance Organizations”), I worked for one as a temp. Their survey wasn’t quite this blunt, but it certainly didn’t include all of the options that I’d have offered for various questions.[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The secret to the “601” will be known to anyone who has seen the still-brilliant 1971 film The Andromeda Strain. (Do not, repeat, NOT attempt to watch the horrifyingly bad made-for-TV remake!) When the scientists studying an extra-terrestrial organism ask[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
For those of my readers from overseas (or Americans who attended public school anytime from about 1988 forward), the 13th Amendment to the constitution abolished slavery. That’s the theory, at least. And there endeth the political lesson. Please open your[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Apart from a brief stint in the now-defunct B. Dalton Bookseller chain (I promise that I didn’t assist their demise!), most of my early working career was as an office temporary. Few things can compare with the horrors of being[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…