are you the ‘office curmudgeon’?

At my last job, there was a lot of turnover, so by the time I passed the two year mark I was a bit of an office veteran, especially among the assistants. I knew how to do everything and was put in charge of training the newbies. That meant that not only was I a bit of a know-it-all, I was also pretty deep into a rut. In other words, I was the “office curmudgeon,” as defined by Canada.com:Employees can also create their own workplace woes and not know it.Chances are, if you’re unhappy with your j

Dice-K blaming Red Sox for shoulder problems

Daisuke Matsuzaka has gotten to the root of all of his shoulder woes this season: The Boston Red Sox…or so he indicated recently in an article for a Japanese newspaper . In the story, Matsuzaka suggested that his effectiveness and health are being negatively impacted by the training techniques of the team. He blamed his current predicament on an inability by the club to account for the needs of Japanese pitchers, and suggested that he was ready to take a stand in an effort to return to the p

In Their Own Words: A Twins-Brewers Conversation

By: Peter Christian & Melissa S. Wollering When the Twins and Brewers aren’t playing each other, their fans are incestually cheering for each other’s teams. So instead of complaining or bragging about their team’s woes or strengths, Pete and Melissa have created conversations between members of the two organizations as they come together for their last interleague matchup of the season in Milwaukee. You may recall, Milwaukee is Algonquin for “The Good Land” in the words of Alice Cooper.