humor
Workplace witticisms, job jokes and career quips; who says work can't be a laughing matter?
Bad Romance
In the Spring term of 2020 at community college, I took a Shakespeare course where our final essay compared his plays to modern media. While reading Romeo and Juliet, I realized many media forms echo similar themes. I compared it to the Twilight Saga, focusing on the concepts of lust at first sight and love triangles. Years later, this essay made me reflect on romance tropes in young adult media that I find the most uneasy. This overarching theme, often coupled with an irresistible pull of forbidden love, often present a suffocating, toxic idea of love. It feels as if the media has prescribed a certain kind of love, a certain kind of passion that ought to exist between two individuals. With little romantic experience myself, I found it difficult to align these idealized versions with real-life interactions. But before I get into this tangent, I have little to no experience in relationships of any kind and this is my blind and bias opinion on most of the popular books, shows and movies that I have either skimmed through or never brought myself to indulge in during my informative teen years.
By Asia Nichelle McCurdy5 years ago in Journal
I'm Writing My Own Story
I was always fascinated by story-telling. Going back to a time when "He-Man..." and "G.I. Joe..." were my go-to childhood appointment viewing opportunities, I think that I somehow inherently sensed that someone had WRITTEN the dialogue/scenes. In fact, it prompted me to turn around and start scribbling out little side-adventures when the REAL adventures had long since gone off the air for the day and I didn't want to pop in the same VHS tape again. (Even in playing with my figures, I would, on technicality, be creating my own adventures for them).
By Kent Brindley5 years ago in Journal
The Office Part 2
As I said in Part 1 of this story, the office was the funniest place I ever worked. I do think that some of the shenanigans that went on was the cold call salesforce's way of dealing with the occupational stress that was a constant daily, if not hourly, occurrence.
By Liam Ireland5 years ago in Journal
The Office Part 1
I sat at my desk on the back wall facing the entrance of the huge open plan room that served as an office for fifteen to twenty cold call tele/field salesmen. Behind me was an enormous mirror which allowed my boss who sat opposite me with his back to the front door to see who was coming in.
By Liam Ireland5 years ago in Journal
Dumbed Down Advice From Dumb Customer Service Experts
You’d think it would be easy to determine what customers want. Just ask them. Or, watch them behave. There aren’t any other options. If businesses could get actionable and accurate information this simply, we’d have much better customer service, and companies would get a better return of investment. It is WAY more complicated. In this chapter we’re going to look some of the fundamental problems in the quest for understanding customers, and in particular, how we end up creating over-simplified and over-generalized descriptions of what customers do and how they make decision.
By Robert Bacal5 years ago in Journal
What happens when a girl who knows nothing about cars tries to sell one? . Top Story - May 2021.
I woke up Friday morning, two snoozes past my actual alarm, oh how I terribly didn't want to go to work. I just had this feeling that it wasn't going to be a good day. Besides, I hadn't even attempted to look at the briefing that was sent prior. It was a 20-minute video and pages and pages of documents about the new Kia Carnival GUV car that was going to be positioned in the middle of Chermside Shopping Centre, yay.
By Elly-Grace Rinaldis5 years ago in Journal
So I'm a Self-Published Author...
I'm a writer (If I weren't, I'd have figured out what the "Vocal" community is by now and headed for the hills). My obsession with spinning words into universes caused me to seek out a "local"(-ish) school with the vaunted writing program (THE Grand Valley State University. "Currently an alum; ALWAYS a LAKER.")
By Kent Brindley5 years ago in Journal
