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The Return of Employment 4

Mar

12

2008

Well, I cracked. I had resisted taking a PA job for three months, since I didn’t want to take a minor step back professionally just because I didn’t want to sit around the house all day. That resistance came crashing down yesterday when a friend emailed looking to replace herself, and I’ll be working on ...

Free Stuff! 2

Jan

30

2008

The company I used to work for (not the show itself, but the much smaller company that technically employed me) has hired me for the week to clean out their old offices, which were basically unused by more than one person for over two years. They’re selling much of the old furniture to the incoming ...

A Quiet Goodbye

Dec

14

2007

Not quite a complete goodbye yet, since I’ve already agreed to come in on Wednesday and help out with some holiday nonsense as I badly need the money. But today was my last day of real work. It’s been almost exactly two years since I started working for my employers, and today I officially got ...

A Distressingly Close Approximation Of My Office At The Moment

Dec

11

2007

Is shown in this video from the kids at Late Night With Conan O’Brien. You can’t hear the buzz of the overhead fluorescent lights as loudly as you can in my office right now, but the level of deadness is pretty comparable.

The Axe Swings Backward 2

Dec

4

2007

Well, at least the uncertainty is pretty much gone: If the strike’s not settled by the end of next week, then next Friday’s my last day. At least I got the courtesy of a warning so I can get my shit together both physically and financially, unlike the last time I got canned. It sucks, ...

The Wind-Down

Dec

2

2007

I’ve experienced the wind-down once before, during summer hiatus between seasons 2 and 3. Between 3 and 4 I missed it, since I was trapped in my apartment after getting foot surgery instead. The wind-down comes after we finish filming, which we did on Thursday. Everyone gets their wrap days, cleans out all their shit, ...

That’s Appropriate

Nov

30

2007

So I get home from drinking with the crew because today (well, yesterday at this hour) was our last day of filming, and I grab the computer so I can read while icing my foot. The first thing I see when I look at my RSS feeds is this from the Onion: “Uninsured Man Hopes ...

Bowling Notes

Nov

18

2007

From last night’s Office vs. Set Bowl Off: Where Strikes Are A Good Thing. – Bowling is really hard if you’ve injured the foot you have to plant. – If you have injured that foot, bowling becomes a lot easier if you just muscle the ball from off your good foot, even though it may ...

It Begins 2

Nov

8

2007

Five of my friends got laid off today. Four days into the strike, not a “your last day is Friday,” not a “you have until the end of the day”, a letter from the conglomerate stating “your employment is terminated effective immediately.” Turn in your badge and your keys this minute, and don’t let the ...

A Little Perspective

Nov

5

2007

Strike day 1 came and went. Some pictures of the group picketing the lot this morning are up on LAist, but our writers were on the afternoon shift, so none of my friends are pictured there. However, this afternoon I found out another friend I used to work with got hit by a car and ...