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Interviewer #1: You have had many jobs at that same company. Can you describe your work environment?
Forty-six-year-old proper woman: My company liked to move us around a lot so we got experience in different departments.
Interviewer #1: Was this a standard practice?
Woman: Oh, yes. They did that for everyone working at the restaurant’s HQ. Every six months we would move from department to department. We liked to call it “tossing the salad.”
Interviewer #1: Excuse me?
Interviewer #2: [Spits out his water.]
Interviewers #3,4, and 5: [Look away and laugh uncontrollably]
Woman: I got my salad tossed every six months, but in the past year moved it up to every three months. It’s all part of the manager training program.
Interviewer #6: Did you like getting your salad tossed?
Woman: Yes, I did.
Interviewer #6: It must take some getting used to. We have never tossed salads here, but that is not to say we won’t someday.
Woman: I would highly recommend it.

Church Street
Orlando, Florida

Overheard by: PS

via Overheard in the Office, Jul 11, 2006

my motivation and energy are on hiatus. but they didn’t leave a forwarding address, a vacation message, or even say goodbye.

i get home, i’m exhausted. i can manage to do homework most of the time, it that part (photoshop, illustrator) doesn’t feel like a “task.” but everything else does. i need to edit an article for my mom, send out a membership message for the fishing site, do laundry, pay bills, balance the checkbook, and file. omg, the filing!

some things i can’t even remember that i need to do until i’m in a place that’s inconvenient for actually doing said task. others, i just feel tired and don’t want to do them. i went to bed EARLY last night. like, six o’clock early. what is wrong with me? i have to drop some things off at the dock for john, otherwise i’d probably just go to bed again tonight.

maybe it’s because i’ve decided to go ahead and take 4 classes again next semester (and the one after that) and i’m already tired just thinking about it. if i do this right, i can graduate in june and just have one class to finish over the summer.