If you've been away for a while, or never been
here before, you can follow the progression of the website. How fun for
you.
Just so you
know: this site is constantly changing formats (see, the way
I phrase that implies I have no control over it and it's not my
fault). As a result, different pages of the archives look
different from each other, locations of particular sections
change, the colors change, everything changes. So, poking
around might be a little confusing. I'm sorry. I mean,
the site is sorry. I had nothing to do with it.
Also, bold
text denotes a special or "theme" week.
2002
One-Day Temping
(December, 2002)
An addition to the already bloated
Jobs section of the oft-neglected Field Guide! The One-Day
Temp is the lowest of the low, the least of the least, and the
something else of the same something else. Called in for just
a single day of work, these fruit flies of the temping industry
might as well have the word "disposable" printed on their
foreheads. What's worse, sometimes the one-day jobs... well,
shit, just go read the damn thing. In Security
(December, 2002)
Once more, I find myself in charge
of security for a small office. The two reasons this is
generally a bad idea: first, I'm tiny and pathetic, and not
much of a deterrent to criminals or even malicious, palsied school
children. Second, I'm planning on stealing a ton of stuff, and
here I am, guarding the door. Plus, with this job, there's a
catch. A really big one. Go Fish
(December, 2002)
God
helps those who help themselves. But what does God do to those
who help those who can't help themselves? Like, say, a
temp? Like, say, me? Well, He punishes.
Hard.
Nothing 'Bout The Truth
(November
20, 2002)
Research shows that the average person tells about two lies a day, but I
recently spent eight hours doing little else but spewing complete bullshit in
downtown San Francisco. Oh, yeah, and I got paid to do it! Get the
skinny on perhaps my weirdest temp job to date.
McSilence
(November 20, 2002)
McDonald's isn't usually a place for soul searching and pondering alternate
timelines, but sometimes it happens. Must be the special sauce.
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2001
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- June 4 - June
8, 2001 - Kind of an impromptu Theme Week, brought on by an
e-mail from Carol Feltman about a review I'd written of her book.
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- Fiction Week
- Five short temping stories, all in a different fiction genre: Science
fiction, horror, erotica, fairy tale, and mystery.
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- Fitness Week
(October 2 - October 6): Feel the burn! A week of getting
into shape at your temp job, from desk-stretching to office yoga to something
far, far more terrifying: face-building.
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