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Jan. 5th, 2010 11:00 amBossBoss just came up to my desk....
"Today is a terrible day! No, not work, work is fine, if I could focus on work...but I can't!"
I said he should maybe make a list, and he said, "No, the list would take me all day, I can't...I just can't focus! Wait, I know what I was in the middle of. Okay, I'm going to go finish it. Thanks! I'm glad we had this talk!"
I LOL.
I love my job and it's not that I want a different job, but I still monitor certain job websites out of habit, and because I could theoretically freelance in the theatre if I wanted to. This morning a job titled "Coordinator For Instructional Fabrication" came up, which sounds like a job making fake IDs for spies. It's almost as good (but not quite) as the one I found a few years ago, PROFESSOR OF MASS DESTRUCTION. Best job title ever. It was on a government/military job website and clearly they hadn't quite thought the title through; about two days after I linked to it, the ad was gone, replaced with something that had a much more mundane title that I can't even remember.
I also stumbled over Payscale.com, which requires you to register but which also tells you, once you register, how much you're making compared to others in your field in your geographical location. One reason I happily put up with Coworker Fail most of the time: I make twice the average hourly wage other people in my job do in Chicago.
I found Payscale via a top fifty list of best employers for Gen Y, though the top fifty list is....okay, I don't know about most of the companies on there, but there's no way that Abercrombie & Fitch is the 11th best employer in the nation, given its history of employment racism, sales racism, and employment ableism.
Brazen Careerist defined standards for the top fifty list pretty specifically, which is nice to see, as most places don't. The criteria were, at least in part: Salary, Social Responsibility, Flexible Workplace. The problem is how these things were measured: "good social policy" seems pretty limited to "do they have a strong green initiative". And on the one hand that's probably a pretty good gauge -- but on the other hand even I knew Abercrombie & Fitch is a terrible place to work, and I actively avoid the evening news.
That being said, Brazen Careerist has a lot of really important stuff to say on women in the workplace, especially women with kids, so it's not like I'm going to ditch the blog over it. There's also the free admission that top-fifty lists contain an inherent level of bullshit about them.
So really my point is, Abercrombie & Fitch: the suck. (I'm looking at you as I say this, Tennant and Barrowman.)
"Today is a terrible day! No, not work, work is fine, if I could focus on work...but I can't!"
I said he should maybe make a list, and he said, "No, the list would take me all day, I can't...I just can't focus! Wait, I know what I was in the middle of. Okay, I'm going to go finish it. Thanks! I'm glad we had this talk!"
I LOL.
I love my job and it's not that I want a different job, but I still monitor certain job websites out of habit, and because I could theoretically freelance in the theatre if I wanted to. This morning a job titled "Coordinator For Instructional Fabrication" came up, which sounds like a job making fake IDs for spies. It's almost as good (but not quite) as the one I found a few years ago, PROFESSOR OF MASS DESTRUCTION. Best job title ever. It was on a government/military job website and clearly they hadn't quite thought the title through; about two days after I linked to it, the ad was gone, replaced with something that had a much more mundane title that I can't even remember.
I also stumbled over Payscale.com, which requires you to register but which also tells you, once you register, how much you're making compared to others in your field in your geographical location. One reason I happily put up with Coworker Fail most of the time: I make twice the average hourly wage other people in my job do in Chicago.
I found Payscale via a top fifty list of best employers for Gen Y, though the top fifty list is....okay, I don't know about most of the companies on there, but there's no way that Abercrombie & Fitch is the 11th best employer in the nation, given its history of employment racism, sales racism, and employment ableism.
Brazen Careerist defined standards for the top fifty list pretty specifically, which is nice to see, as most places don't. The criteria were, at least in part: Salary, Social Responsibility, Flexible Workplace. The problem is how these things were measured: "good social policy" seems pretty limited to "do they have a strong green initiative". And on the one hand that's probably a pretty good gauge -- but on the other hand even I knew Abercrombie & Fitch is a terrible place to work, and I actively avoid the evening news.
That being said, Brazen Careerist has a lot of really important stuff to say on women in the workplace, especially women with kids, so it's not like I'm going to ditch the blog over it. There's also the free admission that top-fifty lists contain an inherent level of bullshit about them.
So really my point is, Abercrombie & Fitch: the suck. (I'm looking at you as I say this, Tennant and Barrowman.)
