Thursday, May 8, 2008

That sinking feeling

"I'd used up all my sick days and the two personal days they allowed us, but when the alarm went off and the baby started squalling and my wife threw back the covers to toter off to the bathroom in a hobbled two-legged trot, I knew I wasn't going in to work." —T. Corraghessan Boyle, "The Lie"

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Wednesday, May 7, 2008

The 12-word review

"Like 'The Office'? Ed Park's debut novel is your next favorite read."
Velocity Weekly

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Monday, May 5, 2008

Incentive

Read the first line of Personal Days here...then pre-order the book!

Office? Ghost? OFFICE GHOST!

"An employee who maintains a position at a company despite the fact that all of his job duties have been reassigned to other employees. This could be by the ghost's own design or due to restructuring within the department...."

Read on, at Urban Dictionary. (Via Margaret.)