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The office phone rings. I answer it with our firm’s name.
A chirpy woman’s voice: “Hi, who’s this?”
Call me old fashioned, call me a curmudgeon, but that is simply rude phone manners. It’s also probably the same woman who called yesterday, doing the same thing, from a recruiters office. A cold call.
She caught me off guard [...]

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The mildest summer in years decided to get seriously unmild just in time for the protest march. I suppose I should be happy it didn’t rain.
My aching arches and slightly sunburned nose are testament to the three hours spent in the name of dissent and democracy. The worst part was standing for almost an hour [...]

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The drugstore chain near my office has already started dedicating significant shelf space to Christmas and holiday decorative items.
In August.
So in case you need a cheesy Santa candleholder right now dammit, venture out to your local Eckerd.

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New York City is a city that represents all the values that the GOP can’t stand. So it makes complete sense that they’d come here for their convention. If they could wipe their collective asses with my city, they would. That’s why I don’t have any compunction about making them as unwelcome as possible. We [...]

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From our Weak Taglines department:
The Apex Technical School queries from their ads on the subway “Time to Learn a Trade?” Their tagline: “Remember, we can’t call you.”
Perhaps it is a remedial technical school.

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