Recent Posts Tagged With 'work'

• Day 164- Hey, That’s Not Fair

  Posted on Thursday July 16th, 2009 at 09:40 in education, work, events, Cost, $ amount varies

  At my full time gig, we have well over 2,500 people at our two Carolina campus buildings. Recently, we decided to have a green fair where our vendors and local companies could come and tell a little about their organization and what they do to make t...

• Day 158- Get the Point and Have the Power

  Posted on Friday April 24th, 2009 at 10:44 in school, work, Paper, Cost, reduce, $0- free

  For those of you who are new to the site, no this is not my primary writing gig. I am an environmental super hero. By day I am the mild mannered regular guy who works for a well known mortgage company in default compliance as a technical writer/edito...

• Day 154- Free Office Supplies

  Posted on Monday April 6th, 2009 at 14:59 in technology, work, electronics, recycle, Other, Cost, reduce, reuse, $ amount varies

  No matter where you work, there is always a supply closet or area. Some are organized and are controlled by an overprotective employee; while others can be an inventory nightmare and have just about everything you don’t want, but rarely something t...

• Day 151- Monitor your Monitor

  Posted on Sunday March 8th, 2009 at 07:18 in technology, work, electronics, reduce, $0- free

  Let me first apologize for being a little lazy on this project. I recently picked up a new full time writing position. This one has a paycheck attached to it–and can you believe health insurance? Who knew writers could get health insurance with...

• Day 140- Little Orphan Document

  Posted on Saturday December 27th, 2008 at 09:48 in work, Paper, reduce, $0- free

  I consider myself to be pretty good at formatting and customizing text in a variety of word processing platforms. Many of them do not exist anymore like ClarisWorks, which is now AppleWorks, AppleWrite and Word Perfect. Everyone has their own prefer...

• Day 125- Spaces Are Not Empty, Period

  Posted on Sunday November 2nd, 2008 at 06:30 in school, work, Paper, reduce, $0- free

  I was looking through my style book the other day on where to put a period in relation to quotation marks and brackets. Not exactly exiting reading, but it does offer some guidance on rules that are seldom used. I also wanted to see where it says to ...

• Day 122- Hi, My Name is…….

  Posted on Friday October 24th, 2008 at 18:43 in work, events, recycle, reduce, reuse, $ amount varies

  I went to an event the other day where we all had those cheap plastic name badges. You know the ones–the 3×5 plastic holder with the safety pin on the back and the generic card stock with your name on it. Those who forgot to register (or ...