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"  I watch The Office with a strong sense of relief. I wasn&amp;#039;t cut out to work for other people, so I hide in my basement and type instead. But for the intrepid corporate workers among us, there&amp;#039;s more than just a 30-minute weekly sitcom to entertain, amuse and commiserate. Here are some of the best blogs by and for corporate employees on the Net: Bizrighter (http://bizrighter.wordpress.com) The anonymous writer who pens this blog on &amp;quot;getting through the work week&amp;quot; in Corporate America says she hopes to &amp;quot;provide a commentary meant to document the weaknesses at work that hold good employees back from greatness.&amp;quot; She doesn&amp;#039;t hold back from her quest to &amp;quot;bring more attention to the legions of unhappy employees in the workplace.&amp;quot; That&amp;#039;s a tall order, especially in these lean times, but Bizrighter often manages to pull it off. Whether she&amp;#039;s posting a funny short film by Carl Heron called &amp;quot;My Cubicle,&amp;quot; or an entire series on how to be happy at work, she has taken on the role of Dilbert&amp;#039;s therapist. And what cubicle dweller couldn&amp;#039;t use that these days? Judging by the lack of archives, this must be a pretty new blog. But with lines line this -- &amp;quot;We&amp;#039;ll spend about 88,000 hours of our life working. Take a couple hours at least and figure out what you want your work to look like.&amp;quot; -- it&amp;#039;s one to watch. Sick Days (http://sickdays.wordpress.com/) This fun blog by Alan Truitt, a mostly fictional character working at a manufacturing company promises to be &amp;quot;pretty much 100% true.&amp;quot; In &amp;quot;Let&amp;#039;s Go on a Business Trip,&amp;quot; Alan writes about being dragged along to a trade show to help his coworker man the booth: &amp;quot;Apparently, the corporate chimp is busy that week and I&amp;#039;m the next best simian for the job.&amp;quot; There&amp;#039;s a Countdown to Retirement, and a series of characters, including Oleg from IT who is notoriously ambiguous in his e-mails. When Oleg tells Alan he&amp;#039;s working on patching a system flaw, Oleg says: &amp;quot;Not yours specifically. In fact, this likely won&amp;#039;t affect you. Most likely. So likely not so.&amp;quot; Alan says he can deal with the 136 e-mails in his in-box: &amp;quot;I instantly delete all &amp;quot;forwarded jokes&amp;quot; sent to me by Mary Margaret. That leaves: 107 emails.&amp;quot; If you&amp;#039;re facing an in-box of e-mails from your own series of characters at your job, Sick Days might be the cure you need. Escape from Corporate America (http://www.escapefromcorporate.com/blog/) Pamela Skillings, author, entrepreneur and career coach, sets out to help corporate refugees on her blog with the same title as her book. From tips on work-life balance when you&amp;#039;re out of work to 6 Career Change Mistake to Avoid, Pamela, along with a series of high quality guest bloggers, offers valuable advice for the recently laid off and the wannabe entrepreneurs alike. She explains why now is a great time to switch jobs: &amp;quot;When an 80+-year-old Wall Street institution like Bear Stearns can disappear practically overnight, no job is truly secure.&amp;quot; And she offers doable plans for staying sane in a &amp;quot;horrible, horrible job&amp;quot;. She says: &amp;quot;There&amp;#039;s no need to suffer in silence and no shame in asking for help. They don&amp;#039;t give out medals for bravely enduring terrible jobs.&amp;quot; If you&amp;#039;re stuck in one of those jobs - or you&amp;#039;re about to lose one - drop by Pamela&amp;#039;s site for some solid advice from someone who&amp;#039;s been there. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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