Work

The Cola Conspiracy
I’ve been grumpy at work lately. It may be due to the fact that I’ve been given additional job duties. It used to be that I could finish my tasks, even working about a week ahead, and still have plenty of down time to decompress. Now, I’m working all day, every day — and I’m […]

Why I Will Never Be A Private Eye
I work on the second level of a medical building with floor to ceiling windows along one side of the wide walkway/patient waiting area. This gives employees and patients a spectacular view of the valley and the mountains – as well as the employee parking lot. Typically, we tend to ignore the parking lot and just enjoy […]

At Least I Didn’t Fall
As you may already know, I was a radio disc jockey for 16 crazy years. In that time, I spent countless hours with headphones over my ears, listening to myself speak as I hosted public affairs programs, read the news headlines, and introduced the latest song or shared the latest celebrity gossip. I quickly got […]

Work (Un)Appreciation
This past autumn, I celebrated my five-year anniversary at the company where I work. I’m lying. Not about the five-year anniversary – I certainly have worked there for five years now. It’s the celebrating thing I’m lying about. I didn’t celebrate – or even really notice that my five-year anniversary came and went. And no one else did […]

I’m “Pissed” Off!
I took a break at work today to pee. Since breaks are non-existent at my clinic, I decided to take full advantage of my five minutes of free time and I took my phone along so I could check my email. Yes, I’m one of those people who take their phone into the bathroom with them. I’m […]

How I Got Into Radio
My first career (if you don’t count the time I was a cashier at the local Sizzler) was in radio. I was a radio announcer for sixteen years, at eleven stations, in six cities, in three states. I worked at stations that played top 40, adult contemporary, country, oldies, and classic rock. I worked with the nicest […]