You may not be able to tell, but I’ve been working on Hit Coffee all day today. Apparently at some point the archives went out. Thanks to a bunch of help from Ethan and Webmaster Guy, my generous host, we’re back up and running at full capacity.

Or at the capacity I’ve been posting at, which hasn’t been that much.

Not to worry, though, posting will be picking up soon as Ethan says that he installed a bug that will blow up the site if I don’t post at least fifty times a day…

Big Time Drama in the Adjoining Cubicle – I shall never complain about overly talkative coworkers again. Though, on the other hand, none of them are quite this interesting. Some Office Guy recounts the mutterings, screaming, and conversations of his coworker.

Call Girl Confessions and Call Center Purgatory and Worst Call Of The Day – Those of you that have had to work phone support will appreciate this these. I worked for one briefly and this blog was almost born at that time.

The Boss Man – While I can’t help but think of The Big Boss Man, this is actually just a guy in charge of a call center who writes an interesting blog.

Big Picture, Small Office – The view from the corner office.

Morale in the Workplace – Unfortunately this one hasn’t been updated in a while, but it’s a really thoughtful look at the work environment. Lots of stuff to chew on.

Work Hate – This one also seems dead, but there looks to be some amusing archives to wade through.

Addendum: While cruising through sites I inadvertently forgot one of the first sites I visited, Corporate Peon. If you’re using Firefox or Opera her site might not load right, but it’s one of the more frequently updated sites of the bunch and probably the one with the best name!

Due to circumstances beyond my control and what was apparently an attempt to hijack my website and turn it into a linkfarm, approximately a bit under month’s worth of writing has been lost.

Addendum: Thank heavens for Google. It had actually archived enough of my website that I was able to recover every lost post except the most recent and one that I never actually posted. Unfortunately the comments are lost. So thank you for all those of you that have commented, even if they’ve gone into the great internet ethar.

I spent the weekend doing many things, among them having a nice chat with Ethan from The Vision Thing for his Podcast audio show. With any luck, audio editing magic will simultaneously allow me to sound coherent and entertaining, but that remains to be seen.

As is usually the case, lots of wise and clever stuff came to mind after the discussion was over, so I will extrapolate on various ideas on this blog.

Unless I totally and completely come off like a dork, in which case I will delete this post, mention nothing more about it, and pretend that it never ever happened.

With Becky househunting stateside, Barry in Virginia, and Larry scoutin’ west, I figure now is as good a time as any to take a break. See y’all Monday

May 24, 1977

I’m adding a few sections on the menu. I’ve copied over my bio “About Will Truman” from the old site as well as a Disclaimer explaining why I’m using fictional locations and making up details.

The latter needs a lot of work, but the short rift is that for a few reasons I have to be very careful to make sure that my anonymity remains in tact. I figured that I could just do SouthernCity and so forth, but I tend to get frustrated with sites that do that. So instead of that I have chosen to add texture to the locations by giving them distinct identities. In order to be as honest as possible, I’ve gone out of my way to make the locations and changes involved as conducive as possible to giving an accurate reflection of who I am, who the people around me are, where I am, and where I’ve been. The more fictionalized things are, the harder it can be to put what really happens in to context. It may not always be what you think, but it may be closer than you think to the real thing.

I’ll be giving more away – and making up more – as things go along. My advice is to just go with the flow, pretend that Delosa and Deseret and so on all exist as distinct identities, and play along.

This blog does not exist yet. It is the eventual site of Hit Coffee, how generously hosted by Blogspot.

It doesn’t matter what kind of guy you are. Whether you’re an artist or a jock or the nerdiest of nerds.

Watching an industrial shredder take down a refrigerator, block of concrete, a washing machine, and a whole lot of other stuff is a whole lot of fun.

My department (all guys) spent our entire twenty minutes watching this beautiful thing and bonding over it.