Every city needs a network of grannies who can dispense emergency hugs.

"Because it feels icky" isn't enough of a reason to change a filing system. Unless I'm the person who thinks it feels icky.

Requesting a loan but stating in your facility report that you don't record physical movements of loaned artwork is a wild move.

*weeps over my pile of General Facility Reports*

I'm hitting my health insurance's out-of-pocket maximum in the third week of the new year. How should I take advantage of this silver lining to an otherwise terrible situation?

Workplace goals for my first year in the new job? Update our collection numbering system from a concept of a numbering system to an actual numbering system.

The registrar weeps quietly at her desk. "I can't understand what I've done to deserve this," she whispers. But the database continues to export only the first page of her collection report.

Coworker: how many cups of tea have you had today? Me: why don't you worry about yourself?

My new boss keeps calling me a fucking nerd. I knew I would like it here.

Heyyyy....... does anyone know of resources for someone who recently found out they have endometriosis?

Life is weird. I get a great new job which I love and move to a super cool new city but also develop a health issue that sometimes causes so much pain that I can't fall asleep. The universe was like "let's even some of this shit out."

Don't tell anyone at my old job, but I have felt more optimistic about my future in the last 3 weeks at my new job than I did in the last 2 years at the old place.

"not smelling funny" is apparently an uncommon criteria for selecting an apartment. Either that or my leasing agents aren't used to such refreshing honesty.

TRIUMPHANTLY UNEMPLOYED

I keep having to remind myself that leaving a long-time job can lead to its own type of grief. It's complicated and unpredictable and totally normal.

It's okay to cry every time you tell a coworker that you're leaving.

Trying to tie up loose ends after being at a job for 8+ is.....a lot.

Sometimes it is VERY hard to tell coworkers that you're leaving even if they understand and it's to move on to bigger and better things.

Nothing says "totally ready to move across the country" like getting into a car accident. I'm fine but my baby (car) is not.

Okay. I'm gonna do it. I'm quitting my job tomorrow. Not a joke, not a drill. I'm going to have a very professional conversation followed by an email to begin the end of my employment.

People who've moved long distances in the US (2,000+ miles), what advice do you have for me?

So, if I take this job offer (which I will unless my fierce negotiating tactics backfire and they rescind), I have to move ever so far away. Which I've done before but never with actual furniture. I have no idea how to do this.

In the job hunt, my experiences have run the gamut and I've been ghosted after interviews but I've never been ghosted AT the interview. Until now :(

Would it be wrong to start connecting with Republicans on dating apps to see if I can explain "tariff," "appropriated funds," or "separation of church and state" to them?

I am taking the high road purely out of spite.

ULINE? More like ewline.

Man, this is a pretty fucking gross move from Amazon, huh? Good on @bookshop.org for not mincing words, though:

Sloths should not give interior decorating advice

A registrar relies on the 3 C's: communication, creativity, and attention to detail.

9:04- send a panicked email to a colleague because you can't find a document that you think was deleted when a colleague left. 9:07 - send an embarrassed email to said colleague because you found the document.

The results are a goddam delight.

Coworker: How's your stress levels Me: IT HAS LEVELS?!?

Just a reminder to my friends who work at certain types of institutions: if it's put in writing, it can be FOIA'd

I'M NOT KIDDING. I have a dream and I need examples of museum pets to make that dream come true. Or animals as very useful tools a la Hermitage

General #museum question that I need help with. Does anyone know of a museum that has cats or dogs onsite?

Inside every woman writing an email, there are two wolves. One throws in an exclamation point to seem less threatening and the other types out "If you bothered to read my last email...."

Me to Legal Counsel: can you help me with this? LC: yes, have financing send the doc. Me: *obeys* LC: This template is terrible and we hate it. Tell financing to drop it. Me: *obeys* Financing: Tell LC to go f^÷^ themselves. Me: *walks off edge of cliff*

I am shocked, SHOCKED, that there is a lot of confusion on if art is going to be subject to tariffs as well… www.theartnewspaper.com/2025/04/07/t...

I think the biggest weakness that so many museum pros have is thinking (hoping?) their workplace will act like a normal workplace with normal workplace norms. That is just....not the case.

Nothing like having to confess to a room full of people that I will show up to any meeting in my calendar regardless of whether or not I know what's going on.

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Please remind your staff not to filibuster staff meetings. Unless the person leading the meeting is a real jerk.

Today is bullshit.

I am BEGGING people to be content with saying "I'm under the weather" or "I'm taking a sick day". I believe you. I don't need more details. Please.

I recently realized what a hit my professional confidence has taken in the last year due to *gestures at many things*. I'm committing myself to rebuilding that confidence and my poor therapist won't know what hit them.

Be careful with daydreaming those "unprofessional yet honest" conversations you know you'll never get to have in the workplace. You might become so comfortable with certain phrases that they slip out at inopportune times.

My hairstylist and I spent my entire cut time talking about unions, various ways to be a feminist menace, and handling complicated family members. It was like therapy, a pep talk, and beautification session all rolled into one.

Part of me is like "I'm under-qualified for that job" and another part of me is like "that job has been posted for a long time. This sounds like a job for bottom-of-the-barrel MuseumFolk"

If I find myself thinking "this would be a great conference presentation," I can be sure that none of my coworkers are interested in that topic.