Can I talk to you about work for a minute? Thanks. I appreciate it.

Where I work, the end of the month is always hell. Normally I'm pretty even-tempered, but at the end of the month, I hate everyone and everything. You should hear the fake conversations I hold with the authors of the documents I read.

"Learn how to write a simple sentence, you moron! How'd you manage to graduate from college? Oh my god, could you have made that concept any more convoluted? You are an illiterate asshole, and I HAAAATE you!!!!!!"

Yeah, it's pretty bad.

On top of that, at the end of the month, I stop caring about doing my work properly. I question whether or not I have the right personality for the job. I mean, the truth is, to be a really good editor, you have to be anal. There's no two ways about it. It has to matter deeply to you whether or not a table border is one centimeter off. It should be a matter of life or death to you if something is hyphenated properly. And honestly, I'm not sure if I have it in me. Especially at the end of the month, when everything is crazy.

Also (I promise this is the last thing), there's something about editing that feels demeaning. It's like cleaning up someone else's garbage. The authors (at least where I work) seem to think that applying even the most basic rules of grammar and punctuation is unnecessary. I just KNOW they're thinking, "Editing will fix it."

Now, I certainly don't expect them to know all of the rules of proper grammar. I certainly don't know all of them. But. Would it KILL you to put periods at the end of all of your sentences? Would it be too much to ask for you to put learn the difference between a complete sentence and a fragment?

I'm thinking it might be time for another career change, but you know what? I love my boss, and I LOVE working from home, and I don't want to give that up. I'm not sure what I'll do.

OK, end of work stuff.