This week has felt really heavy, with 9/11 occuring and me staring off into the abyss at work yesterday. It gets a little tiring being bitter about work and tragedy, so I think I will move on to bigger and bitter stuff. It’s Freakin Friday(the 13th) so I think I will be bitter about lighter things like bloopers, both mine and others. As a few of you may know, Amanda from WriteintheWrongWay and I (or is it me? Let me know, Grammar bitterpeople.) did a video for B.E.N. (Bitter Entertainment Network) and as you have come to expect of me, I screwed up. A lot. Amanda did too, so we decided to edit (by we, I mean she) those mistakes together and call them “Bitter Bloopers”. So we present to you above, the B.E.N.’s Bitter Blooper Blog Video. (By the way, eventually we will do another video so if other bloggers are interested in doing a segment, let me know in the comments.)
Below are a few lessons to learn on Friday:
After lunch on Friday, it is time to give up for the day: All your productivity for the week has been used up. Every effort you make after lunch, will only cause more work. Especially when you are on the West Coast. Everyone on the East Coast and the Central Coast has shut down. They are already on their couches or whatever other locations people end up on Friday night. do on a Friday night. West Coasters: After lunch, just put down your pencils, put your shoes back on and slowly and casually leave the building. No fanfare, or turning off our computers…just leave. And don’t come back until Monday. No one will miss you. Just leave the fish on the hook.. and walk away.
If you make a mistake, just give up. Just lay there, sit there or stare there and don’t do anything. Because by not doing anything, at least you aren’t making anymore mistakes.
When things are going well, don’t do too much. Sometimes on a Friday you get on a roll and you think you can do no wrong. Since you are doing things right, you decided to keep going. You decide to give up after this last one. You know what? Should have done just one less. Friday lesson: Know when to quit.
Avoid your boss at all costs. My favorite? About an hour before you go home, go to the bathroom, get a snack, then to your car. Take a nap. At 3:29 wake up, comb your bedhead, wipe the sleep out of your eyes, sneak to your desk, log out, have a good weekend. By all means, don’t sit at your desk, be productive and give you boss any ideas about asking you at 3:29 pm to start a project that will just take a “few minutes”.
A bitter Friday the 13th to all of you.
Arrrggghhhh
Bitter Friday Ben
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I go mad! A new shooting star is born. You are made for TV!
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Actually my face is much better suited for radio. And my voice for putting people to sleep.
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Do I need to turn the radio around then to match it to your gravar?
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That will help me broadcast better if you could do that.
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Bitterly hilarious bloopers!
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I think I would have had more if I would have just let things go naturally.
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I applaud you waiting until after lunch to give up on Friday. I prefer to give up at my 10 am coffee.
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The only thing more bitter than your coffee is me. Most people in the east are home before I start my Friday lunch.
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Jerks
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I think I’m going to use your ‘If you make a mistake, just give up’ advice for the weekend. I might just lie around or something. Yeah, now there’s a plan!
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I feel like you should definitely lay around this weekend. If you don’t, then I would be bitter.
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My favorite parts were about me too.
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LOVE THE VIDEOS! Hilarious – especially the girl catching flies and/or exhibiting a shocked demeanor when her boss asked her to most likely begin some monstrous project at 3:25 on a Friday! I survived Friday the 13th by not leaving my house except to drop something off at the Post Office and scurrying back home ASAP…:). I think that’s the way to go. Figured you’d like that since it’s not exactly the SUNNY way to deal with such an ominous day. However, it was cold and gloomy here in Ohio, and I, unlike, you SLACKERS, had a very productive day and finished a rather sizable editing project that I’d been slaving away at for a couple of weeks. But when you work freelance, being lazy = NO PAYCHECK…:). However, my boss never dumps a ton of work on me at 3:25 on a Friday cuz she knows I’d just laugh and walk out…(big grin)…
ANYWHO…my reason for stopping by is that I’ve started a new blog at: http://www.lunaticslounge.com, and I’m looking for guest bloggers. And I’d LOVE it if you could possibly submit a post or two for the blog or possibly the book, which will be based upon wacko submissions to the lunaticslounge.com…so, check it out when you’ve got a moment…
Hope you’re enjoying your Saturday! 🙂
~Ciao!
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New blog huh? Sounds like you have a lot of writing on your plate. I keep pretty busy doing bitter blogs, but if I am inspired about something that could be used for your blog, I will let you know. By the way, I am still looking into schools for creative writing and my wife is pretty skeptical about careers available. Any advice? Maybe I need to send you an email about it?
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An email would definitely be better. Too difficult too discuss on these pages. And DEFINITELY let me know if, you know, a piano falls on your head, or a squirrel starts talking to you in French – anything that might work for the new blog…:)
Chat with you later!
TB
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I sent you an email.
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I tried your email that you have listed on the blog and it doesn’t work. Is that the correct one or is there a new one?
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That’s the right email address. I just checked it this morning. If you got a bounceback, maybe, you typed it in wrong, or did you copy and paste it? Let me know in case I need to alert Yahoo of some sort of problem with that account.
Feel free to email me at: lynnelogan@columbus.rr.com instead if you like.
~TB
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This is the one I used. tenacious_b@yahoo.com. I just copied and pasted it.
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Strange. Should’ve worked. It’s an active account – but like I said – feel free to email me at: lynnelogan@columbus.rr.com.
sorry about the technical problems! 🙂
TB
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No trouble. I will get it to one of those.
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Wait…which email address are you referring to? I assumed you meant: tenacious_b@ymail.com ?? If not, the kennedysmith one has been disabled, and I thought it had been deleted from WP, but I’ll check. Email me at tenacious_b@ymail.com or lynnelogan@columbus.rr.com.
THANKS!
~TB
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Okay, will do. I just found it on your Bio/Accolades/Work History area. I will resend tonight.
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Again…try my home email – lynnelogan@columbus.rr.com if Tenaciousb doesn’t work…
~TB
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Just sent and it seems like it went through.
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Yep. I replied a couple hours ago…:)
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Yep I got it. The advice helps. Me and my wife are mulling over what to do. I think I would like to write that story. What time frame are we looking at?
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Anytime you like for the blog. As far as the book, the deadline is November 15.
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Guess I’ve got a deadline to reach.
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Yes, Bitter Ben, that deadline is for ME too because I’ve gotta couple stories I haven’t actually finished either, and I wanna get it all done before Christmas. Chat with you later…:)
TB
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omg i love the crashing display )
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I thought it would just be bitter about other people falling than serious stuff this time.
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Great Job *tap tap tap* is this thing on?
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If you ask me that at work about my brain, then no it isn’t on.
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LOL
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These animations are HILARIOUS!!! They put our bloopers to shame 🙂
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Well, if our film crew that we don’t pay would start making us look better then our video wouldn’t look so shameful.
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If I knew when to quit, I would have died 40 years ago. 🙂
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And I definitely would have quit this blog by now.
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For starters, it “I”. Then, thanks for reminding me it’s Friday the 13th…now I am paranoid AND bitter. Lastly, in the words of the great Homer Simpson “Never ever try.”
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There is nothing bitter than telling a paranoid person that it is Friday the 13th. Is that a hockey mask right behind you?
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No…it’s Pierce. Which given his name could be worse!
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What have you done to poor Pierce?
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are you paying amanda ? if so are you paying her to tell you, your tie is undone, b/c i would like a job like that?
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No, I’m not paying Amanda. She wanted to do the video. As far as my tie being undone, that was my idea to start the video out that way, but it was clipped in favor of a more serious start. Now I think goofy would have been better.
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why did i think you were wearing a suit? you can borrow my hello kitty t shirt
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Hello Kitty is my natural rival. My little girl used to have one and she knew I didn’t like cats so she would hit me in the head with Hello Kitty and I would make her laugh that she was my bitter rival.
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LOL that’s funny…i will answer the rest after yom kippur is over sat night after sundown and stars come out & everything.
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Have a good Yom Kippur, then.
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thank-you!
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I’m welcome.
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LOL .yes you are
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I am really liking this idea to call it a day right after lunch. We all know nothing of value is getting done after that. It can just wait til Monday.
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Right. Don’t tell your boss or anything, leave your computer on and just act like you were in the bathroom if they ask on Monday.
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Sounds like a good plan…
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You are after lunch now right? Go home and do some Pinterest!
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I’ve only got 45 minutes to go. I figured I could just stick it out…this time.
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Next time though…
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Absolutely loved the bloopers “is this thing on”…. But hang on. Amanda is NOT your wife? I have no idea why I assumed she was..
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Nope just another blogger that agreed to the craziness.
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What’s with the zipper tie, BB? #stylin
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Who has time to tie a tie anyways? I have been tying ties for years and when my wife found these two zipper ties, I figured, who cares? It is so much easier anyways.
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As always, good bitter advice! I personally take off the whole day whenever I can (like today).
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Always glad to share lazy advice.
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