Young Underpaid Professionals

The Young Underpaid Professional's Corpo...

Yep, it's another Fried-day gentle readers, and you're probably ready to spout fire by now. Here's another hit at the Young Underpaid Professional's Corpo Dictionary, from Moanday to the Manicorn. Moanday. According to the Overlord herself, Moanday is the day of the week when you moan that you don't...

YuppieUniverse presents The Young Underpaid...

Do you know when Fried-day is? As functional and highly sarcastic Young Underpaid Professionals, we've come up with a Corpo Dictionary for all of you folks in the same soup as us. This is a completely open dictionary so feel free to send in your words and definitions. A word of warning though, personal...

Yuppie Humor: Keep your hands to yourself

Posted by Rio S. If you are an average young underpaid professional - meaning carless - you have been and continue to trek through the First Circle of Yuppie Hell: commuting to and from work. Commuting is a long and treacherous experience in itself, as well as wrought with irony. In my experience, defying...

Yuppie Humor: Keep your voice down

Posted by Rio S. There are times when keeping your mouth shut is the best way to go - especially when somebody says, "Maybe you should handle the team building." and your life becomes a living hell afterwards. Now, the folks featured in this new wave of Yuppie Humor stories shouldn't have just kept...

Yuppie Humor: It's all in the spelling

Posted by Rio S. Okay, so another hell week's coming to a close and you're probably gagging from the toxic office week by now. When things are bad, when it's a miracle you haven't succumbed to the temptation of coming to the office armed with a semi-automatic and with the intention of mowing down everybody...

Yuppie Humor: Calling tech support

Posted by Rio S. During my first call center stint, I was a tech support agent for a couple of consumer electronics companies. For your entertainment (and mine), let me share a couple of my stories. Whether it's funny or sad (or both) purely depends on how you look at them. Here goes. Somebody calls...