By: MelleYeah
2 words: food….poisoning. Your dead asleep…..suddenly! you wake up….and notice……somethin’s comin out….one way or the other and/or both….You my friend; have food poisoning! All it takes is 1 bad tuna sandwich and your outta work for a day! I’m a vegetarian, so I get what I call ”meat poisoning” It pretty [...]

By: Dr. She
I was working a crappy retail hell job at one of our distinguished bookstore chains and had decided the night before I couldn’t take one more mind numbing shift dealing with knuckle dragging troglodytes asking me to find a book with ”the” in the title. So first thing the [...]

By: Wugah
I lie very, very poorly. No, seriously - I suck at it.
Anyhow, with that said, I had been doing the 90 hour week thing for months on end at a startup company and the day after the CEO jumped on my ass about coming in at 10:00am one [...]

By: Fruity Pebbles
I went into work on a Saturday after some partaying with too much booze still in my digestive system, and strenuously vomited all my cereal into a wastebasket in front of everybody about 40 minutes after I started work. If you’re not known as a drinky person, this sort of ‘intestinal flu’ is [...]

By: Doodle
I had a doofus back into my otherwise pristine Monte Carlo a while back.
This was on a Friday. So Monday comes around, and I wanted to extend my weekend a few hours, so I called in late, saying I got in a light accident, and bumped my head…and I’ll be in late…

Now, seeing [...]

By: Wirrly 
I hate it when the day job interferes with the real career…if you’re an artist or musician or have any dreams outside of your day to day grind you know what I mean.

I have always been upfront with every employer about my painting and gallery stuff and they have always been very supportive. That [...]

By: Lady G
I had planned Tuesday to be ’play hooky’ day the week before when my boss elected to reem me out for something that was completely and unequivocally his fault. Bastard. And then when my friend R invited me to see the Hold Steady Monday night, the decision seemed even a [...]