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Every job has its hazards.

I wanna hear about yours, and how you cope.

How are they treating you over there at The Bakery? (Can we taste it in the cupcakes?)

Consider me an amateur social scientist.

In my day job, I study people and their shopping, decision-making and purchasing behavior – usually as related to some new piece of technology.

I am a UX (user experience) Research Consultant. That means I work with digital design teams and product managers to test and learn, to iterate on products for the digital and physical worlds.

Fundamentally, though, I’m an observer and a writer, working on my writing craft, trying to put together a book – a memoir, really, about how technology has drastically changed the workplace over the past 20+ years (my career since college) ….but the stories you tell me?

“People will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”

Maya Angelou

This is what I suspect hasn’t changed. How we treat each other. This is what endures, (for me, anyway,) what sticks.

Sure, there is technological revolution going on, (insert link to timeline of historic tech releases) but the way we work, the how of the day-to-day and what it does to us in that ripple-effect way: That is what we look at and talk about in the WorkplaceWoes semi-regular blog and super-occasional podcast. (Because doesn’t everyone have a podcast now?)

Tell Me About It…

This blog is a venting session where we tell stories of what happened this week at the office, on the job site, at that client meeting, or in the kitchen at the restaurant where you work.

We (mostly) laugh it off and get ready for the weekend. This could be place to connect, (sorta) an online community where at least I take the time to feel the emotions, and god forbid, talk about them, as related to the work that we do.

Here I cultivate anonymity, authenticity and 1-on-1 sharing of the real, true and sometimes painful stories of lessons we’ve learned in the workplace, usually – The Hard Way. (that is, through experience!)

WorkplaceWoes – the blog: it’s part therapy, part comedy, part strategy, mostly human.

We share, we care, and I hypothesize a lot.

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