Category Archives: Temping

Jason stopped by the cube at about 4:15 yesterday, bearing bad news. The recent turn of events has left the E-Pro department with a shortage of work, and he felt it necessary to send me home for the day. He said that he wanted me to call in today at 9:00a.m. to see if they’d want me to come in today, while half-jokingly adding, “if at all.”
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After spending the first half of the day working on mock-ups I soon realized that there was a shortage of work for me to do. Accordingly, Jason has told me that I may be free for the rest of the day. Knowing that the MSN so-and-sos are making key decisions about the project today, he’s also assured me an abundant workload tomorrow.
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Woke up a bit late today and chose to ease in to my Monday morning. Having had certain muscle groups brought to my attention last week, I haven’t been working out lately. Instead, I managed only a little bit of morning study and hung out with Mary and Willy.
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I walked out of work today at 6:00, “Magic hour.” The afternoon’s 70&deg zephyr was an amazing contrast to the morning’s chilly downpour. Tucking my coat and pullover in my backpack, with umbrella in hand, I walked northward along the shore side route of the local 17, the bus I’d just missed. What an amazing end to my workday.
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Jason had two more layouts for the MSN series ready for me to work on when I first walked in the door this morning. The packaging I’m currently working on are called “form factors.” These comprise the casings and brochure inserts for an upcoming release of MSN DVDs. I’m mainly working in Photoshop at the moment, building mechanicals from the various comps which have been haphazardly pieced together by some undisclosed graphic designer. I’m building these so they’ll be ready when the powers-that-be from Microsoft give their approval (which is apparently already a week late).
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