I don’t know how long I’ll be unemployed this time. When I was laid off in 2015 it took me until November of 2017 when I was hired full time again. Then, when I was let go in 2018 it[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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I don’t know exactly what happened, that weekend in February of 2001, but my biggest problem with this company wasn’t specifically that they almost went out of business (after I moved with everything I owned from Kansas City to Philadelphia,[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I guess I could go over all the stuff that happened to me at Hallmark, because I didn’t leave, (both good and bad), but that could lead to a lengthy post. I’ll just add this. In 1997 I got to[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
After I left Hasbro in 1989 I still had a lot of friends working there. But, with every acquisition of another toy company, (Kenner, Parker Brothers, Milton Bradley, Tonka, etc…) there were numbers of redundant employees, so Hasbro would just[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Because I’ve worked for large companies in the past and have at times, been on the hiring/interviewing end for those companies, I know from first hand experience that these “personality tests” are bullshit. IMO, anyone who has to stoop to[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
It’s difficult to put into words and pictures just how much of a shock and then how down I felt after the rug was pulled out from under my, and all the other graphic designers, feet last Thursday. Compiling tonight,[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
It’s a bit unsettling, when you’re speaking with someone for the first time, trying to get to know them, that all they talk about is, well… suicide. Now, I can understand it, if she’d been working on this book, this[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
It’s still difficult to understand. I woke up early, even though I really didn’t have to. When the phone rang and it was that PA Turnpike job Product Manager I’d forgotten all about the meeting we had planned today. By[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Yes, it all came down to unfilled forms. If you read this comic from 10/22/18 you’ll see the difficulty I had with their web site accepting the forms I filled out. Well, it was some of them and a couple of other[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I may have written this before, but at the end of every day I write down notes of what happened that day. Thanks to these notes when I fall behind (oh, who am I kidding, I’m always behind) these notes[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…