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	<title>Spilling Coffee &#187; Office Life</title>
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	<description>by Tom Coffee: Daddy Blogger.  Humorist.</description>
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		<title>My DIY Standing Desk</title>
		<link>http://www.spillingcoffee.com/2010/08/14/my-diy-standing-desk-experiment/</link>
		<comments>http://www.spillingcoffee.com/2010/08/14/my-diy-standing-desk-experiment/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Aug 2010 11:49:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Coffee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Like a lot of people these days, I spend a good portion of my day using a computer all day while sitting on my ever-widening ass and not really getting a chance to move around much more than the occasional trip to the kitchen for an extra doughnut or to top off my sugar-infused cream-laced coffee. The few times I do get a chance to actually stand up and walk around usually only last for a few minutes at most while I navigate my way to someone&#8217;s office or conference room where the chairs are even more plushy and inviting than my own office chair. Walking around actually seems like a pretty novel mode of transportation on some days, which has had me wondering for a while now if there wasn&#8217;t a healthier way to do things. Just for the Health of It Of course, I&#8217;m not the first person to be wondering if I was sitting around on my butt too long. The New York Times has actually had a couple of different articles advocating standing or walking at your desk instead of sitting but the problems associated with sitting down all day have been documented elsewhere as well. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Give Me Mileage or Give Me Death &#8211; Why I Drive</title>
		<link>http://www.spillingcoffee.com/2010/06/18/give-me-mileage-or-give-me-death/</link>
		<comments>http://www.spillingcoffee.com/2010/06/18/give-me-mileage-or-give-me-death/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Jun 2010 01:39:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Coffee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There you are, in a one-on-one meeting with your mentally challenged Liberal Arts major of a boss and he&#8217;s droning on and on about the importance of &#8220;covering all points of the compass out the box with the low hanging fruit&#8221; and &#8220;win-win solutions that push the envelope paradigm&#8221; when he suddenly start asking about what &#8220;your schedule looks like&#8221; in the middle of a work week two months from now. Who cares what they are? Given them away and you&#8217;ll be more popular than that loose intern in Accounting. And that&#8217;s when mentions, almost as if it&#8217;s another conversation, that there&#8217;s &#8220;this conference&#8221; coming up and he&#8217;d really like some &#8220;eyes on the ground to represent our best interests&#8221; there. He&#8217;s sending you to a conference &#8211; for work. It&#8217;s clearly not one of those fun, booze-filled and entertainment-packed sales conferences held in some high-end hotel or spa along the coast with the prefix &#8220;Le&#8221; in the name. This is one of those conferences held at the local Best Western that&#8217;s about &#8220;two miles down the road from the Denny&#8217;s on Route 31.&#8221; Oh, and it&#8217;s in Iowa. Or South Dakota. Or South Iowa. Or some other god forsaken [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cover Letter and Resum&#233; Advice from A Hiring Manager</title>
		<link>http://www.spillingcoffee.com/2008/06/04/advice-from-a-hiring-manager-what-not-to-do-in-your-cover-letter-and-resum/</link>
		<comments>http://www.spillingcoffee.com/2008/06/04/advice-from-a-hiring-manager-what-not-to-do-in-your-cover-letter-and-resum/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Jun 2008 10:33:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Coffee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ever since receiving a promotion at work a little while ago I&#8217;ve found that one of my main duties is serving as a hiring manager for my office. Between retirements and position changes and job additions I have been hiring and moving people around for the better part of a year now. I have seen hundreds (maybe thousands) of resum&#233;s over that time and I thought I would impart upon you some of the things which could very well be preventing you from getting that dream job or even that pity interview. As I&#8217;m wading through all these resum&#233;s and cover letters and job applications I have several things that I&#8217;m ultimately looking for, no matter what kind of position it is. I&#8217;m looking for: It&#8217;s only okay to send naked photos of yourself with your resum&#233; if you&#8217;re hot. 1. Someone who can do the job. 2. Someone who wants to do the job. 3. Someone who will stay for more than a few months. 4. Someone who will fit in with the current staff. That&#8217;s it. I don&#8217;t care if you&#8217;re brilliant or have excellent oral hygiene or know the Pope on a personal level. I don&#8217;t care [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Disordering Conduct</title>
		<link>http://www.spillingcoffee.com/2006/11/14/disordering-conduct/</link>
		<comments>http://www.spillingcoffee.com/2006/11/14/disordering-conduct/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Nov 2006 12:21:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Coffee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We&#8217;re having our biweekly scavenger hunt this morning. The only thing in our list, as it is every other week, is &#8220;something which will hold hot coffee without scalding our hands or leaking all over our desks and dripping into our very sensitive nether regions.&#8221; The Styrofoam Holy Grail of our office You see, we&#8217;re out of Styrofoam coffee cups. Sure, they&#8217;re the environmental equivalent of RAID to cockroaches, but you don&#8217;t worry about the environment so much when you&#8217;re 20 minutes late to cubicle hell on a Monday morning after a weekend of fun. To put it simply: we need those cups to hold our magical elixir of youth and vitality to get us through the day&#8230; Yes, I mean coffee. But without cups we can&#8217;t drink coffee. This makes us very, very sad. This is not the first time we&#8217;ve faced this tragedy. Lisa, our office secretary, forgot to order cups and we obviously forgot to remind her to do her job. Lisa, bless her soul, is a functioning idiot. I&#8217;m sure there&#8217;s some amazingly tragic and heartwarming story involving multiple car accidents or a blimp explosion or being fired out of cannon or something which explains her [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Dead PC For Me</title>
		<link>http://www.spillingcoffee.com/2006/02/01/dead-pc-for-me/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2006 02:10:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Coffee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My computer at my office died sometime over lunch today. I came back to work after a long lunch in the company cafeteria, reached down under my little desk and hit the power button on my PC. Nothing happened. No hum, no beep, no little blips on the monitor. I hit the button again. Still nothing. I bang the button three or four times. Dead. So I kick it. Hard. I bet you&#8217;ve never seen this funny computer graphic before! LOL! And it feels really good, especially after last week when it froze up and made me lose two hours of work on a mind-numbingly boring spreadsheet I was working on. It has been freezing up a lot lately, almost always while working on really boring spreadsheets. I figured my computer just wasn&#8217;t &#8220;a numbers sort of guy.&#8221; It never froze up on Adobe Photoshop or Macromedia Director or even Bikini Babe Poker. Heck, it wouldn&#8217;t even freeze up on the fun spreadsheets where I was tracking things like how many cups of coffee I can drink in a day without stuttering or graphing the relationship between my boss&#8217;s attempts to use our company database and emergency help desk calls. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Logic Takes a Holiday</title>
		<link>http://www.spillingcoffee.com/2006/01/30/logic-takes-a-holiday/</link>
		<comments>http://www.spillingcoffee.com/2006/01/30/logic-takes-a-holiday/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jan 2006 12:15:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Coffee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;d like to request a few days off from work, but my company&#8217;s vacation request process has more wasted effort than a Peter Jackson film. Iâ€™m sure our method of asking for days off began as a simple, straightforward process but over the years the layers of added beauracracy have mutated it like nuclear experiments in the Sea of Japan and turned it into some sort of green monster that periodically rises from the depths and goes for a leisurely stroll through Tokyo. Let&#8217;s say I want to take off next Friday. Here&#8217;s how this system works: 1. I walk down to my bossâ€™s office, say hello to Marla, his lobotomized secretary and proceed to the â€œwall of formsâ€ where we have paper forms for just about every employment practice imagineable. At the wall I find that we are out of Vacation Request Forms as we always are because Marla thinks photocopying 20 forms is 20 times the work of photocopying two forms. 2. I turn to Marla and ask her for a Vacation Request Form whereupon she must ask me, â€œDonâ€™t we have any up there?â€ and I have to ceremoniously answer, â€œNo, I donâ€™t think we do.â€ Next [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How Not To Write A Memo</title>
		<link>http://www.spillingcoffee.com/2006/01/26/how-not-to-write-a-memo/</link>
		<comments>http://www.spillingcoffee.com/2006/01/26/how-not-to-write-a-memo/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jan 2006 12:17:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Coffee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is an actual official memo from our Human Resources Department regarding one of our buildings. Please do not go thru the back inventory area unless you have business there. Okay, that&#8217;s actually not bad. &#8220;Thru&#8221; is a little informal for a company-wide memo, but I&#8217;m not going to take off points for that. So far the memo is short, simple, and to the point. Unfortunately, that&#8217;s the first and last line that can be described that way. Do not use the back door for in and out unless you are loading or re-loading business equipment. Umm&#8230;use the back door for in and out? If anyone is doing &#8220;in and out&#8221; with the back door, I think that person should probably be shot. And then someone needs to clean &#8211; no, burn &#8211; no, replace the whole damn door. This proves that verbs matter. I know it is a shorter distance for some of you who wants to take a SMOKING break in the back area but walking is good for you. Oh, I understand. This person is fluent in Engrish. People in Human Resources are rarely bothered by anything, so the capital letters are little disturbing. I&#8217;d be afraid [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Coffee Drinkers vs. Tea Drinkers</title>
		<link>http://www.spillingcoffee.com/2006/01/20/coffee-vs-tea/</link>
		<comments>http://www.spillingcoffee.com/2006/01/20/coffee-vs-tea/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jan 2006 19:50:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Coffee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My office is filled with weaklings. These are people who are afraid of running a short hundred mile marathon. These are people who can&#8217;t last a measly fifteen rounds in the ring with a grizzly bear. These are people who can&#8217;t catch a bullet in their teeth, karate-chop their way through a brick wall or even kill a man with a plastic spork. That&#8217;s right. My office is filled with tea drinkers. They come in with their lemon-rosemary (an unholy combination if ever there was one) scented cups of hot water and take a few sips every so often, exclaiming how soothing or soft the flavor is and how it really &#8220;takes the edge&#8221; off that hectic day when the phone rings twice. I come in with my large mug of steaming black java and down it before they&#8217;ve had time to stir in their two Sweet N&#8217; Lows and four drops of non-dairy whole bean fat-free flavor filtered soy milk. I get into the office around 8:00 AM and I&#8217;m ready to take on the world by 8:03 AM while they&#8217;re still dunking their little soggy bags of leaves, moving their heads up and down in rhythm with their [...]]]></description>
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