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Don’t Send Your Children to Work

כ״ה באלול ה׳תש״ע (Saturday 4 September 2010)

I love my parents and I think they did a very good job raising me, especially in comparison with my cousins and some of my childhood peers, who were spoiled rotten and remain rotten as young adults. But one of the things my parents did that fucked me up for life is making me have [...]

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More Stupid Boss Tricks

ח׳ באדר ה׳תש״ע (Monday 22 February 2010)

In January, I went on vacation for a couple weeks. I had only been with my current company for five and a half months, and two of those were as a part time employee, so I didn’t have enough vacation days accrued to take the whole vacation. The company let me go anyway, and I [...]

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Stupid Boss Tricks

כ״ה בשבט ה׳תש״ע (Tuesday 9 February 2010)

Boss: [returning from lunch] Hey, Genius, when do you think you can have that document ready for me? Genius: [about to go to lunch] Oh, hey. That one? Well, if you need it fast, I guess I can drop everything else and get it done in about half an hour [optimistically]. Boss: Great! Excellent! Hey, [...]

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Divorce

י״ז בכסלו ה׳תש״ע (Friday 4 December 2009)

It happened suddenly. I worked closely with a certain guy for a couple years. We were on the same team in a job with some customer service orientation. He was phenomenally good at dealing with the clients. He’s a problem-solver; he loves to help people. He is gentle, progressive and generous to a fault. He [...]

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Femininity

י״ב במרחשון ה׳תש״ע (Friday 30 October 2009)

I had one of these great conversations yesterday that stays in my head, turning around and around so I can analyze and re-analyze it for a long time. A fellow in my office, about my age but born in Israel and lived here his whole life, asked me about my Aliyah – am I Jewish, [...]

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