A day in the life

Goodbye:

• travelling "upstream" on the staircases at Yonge/Sheppard subway


• walking through a field covered in goose poop to get to the office


• working in the vicinity of a mere two good eateries, and two passable ones


• waiting for ridiculously slow elevators every morning


• feeling like a bad person if I'm in at 9:05


• having to pretend like I don't want to drop-kick CFB whenever she talks to me


• having to drop everything to respond to CFB's crazed last-minute requests, when they've been on her schedule for weeks, while she's managing to mix up deadlines


• having 15 days of vacation, of which I'm actually allowed to take one


• working at a career as a full-time keyboard-monkey


• having any attempts at stress-breaking be frowned upon


• elementary school level office politics


• being notably efficient and pro-active, but being treated like an idiot


• being forwarded emails I was an original recipient on

All of which adds up to a much bigger pile of crap than the initial benefits of working here suggested.

Things I'll genuinely miss:

• being able to wear jeans in to work


• the proximity of the Chinese supermarket


• the rare occasions when I got to work with the Art Director


• music playing for all Studio to hear


• Jenn Truong, a true delight to work with, and the only real reason I could justify staying on