Too Many Toasters

Toasters. They are the great evil. Toasters and hair dryers, both of them are a blight on the energy usage of mankind, for real. The big bosses sent a very angry email asking why our office is using more power than average. I should’ve realised it from the start, but I had to take a … [Expand…]

I Guess We’re Not Doing Platforms Any More?

So, wow, that thing happened. One of the actual managers descended from on high to visit our humble office. Sure, they arrived in a limo and the guy didn’t take off his sunglasses the entire time he was talking, and…there was the speech. The incredibly terrifying motivational speech, after which he got in his limo … [Expand…]

Blessed Be Me, the Peacemaker

Cannot BELIEVE Sally isn’t taking responsibility for the parking mess she’s created. We have a booking system, which SOME people don’t seem to realise. Sally swears she switched with Amy, who’s on holiday and can’t corroborate the story. But then Neil says he booked the space two months ago and his booking has been lost, … [Expand…]

Flying Premium Economy to Success

Finally, I’m moving up in this company! Of course, that might mean I’m eventually initiated into the ranks of the shadowy order of the bosses, who communicate only via email and probably spend most of their time in a dark room inside a glowing magic circle. I mean, like…that’s the image I have of them. … [Expand…]

Talkin’ ‘Bout Rendering

If this office wasn’t crazy enough, now I have to babysit the Swedish guy. I’m not being racist or anything, and his English is just fine if a little bit heavily accented. No, it’s just…new people aren’t what we need at the moment. I’ve got Darren on the case helping out, but now the bosses … [Expand…]

An Office Badly In Need of Design

So, office fitouts…they’re a bit of a thing in Melbourne at the moment, right? I’m just thinking, since the company seems to be doing so well (as in, we get new clients all the time, and that can only be good), maybe we could get a bit of that action? It’s just that the place … [Expand…]

We Deal with Beauty, Apparently

We do beauty products? And also own beauty brands? Seriously, what the heck does this company even do? I’d look into it if I wasn’t so busy fielding calls from sixteen-year-old girls saying that they need anti wrinkle treatments in Melbourne, or…tattooing of eyebrows somewhere right now or they’re going to be off-fleek for the … [Expand…]

I Am Not Your Kitchen Fairy

Hello, it’s Moira, the kitchen fairy! Said no one ever, because it’s NOT my job to clean up after everyone. It’s been exactly the same every year I’ve worked here. We have our grand staff meeting, I stand up and give my usual set of spiels, followed by a dire warning to all who refuse … [Expand…]

From Dry Needling to Hazmat Suits

“Hello, do you do acupuncture?” That was my first call this morning. Oh, joy, the shady bosses are at it again, giving us clients we didn’t even know we had! Last I heard we were supposed to be selling inflatable pool rings, so the concept of puncturing something should be the furthest thing on our … [Expand…]

Fun Times Moving Office!

Our office is moving. That’s sort of exciting, I guess, particularly since we’re going to be spending an entire day just shifting furniture back and forth, and getting paid for not doing our usual work. Still, I do kind of wonder why we couldn’t just mash ourselves up with the BIG office in the Melbourne … [Expand…]