In about a month, my new book will be published. It’s called Executricks: or How To Retire While You’re Still Working. Compact, entertaining and wise, the book will teach you how to live like an executive even if you aren’t one, cleanly, legitimately, creating while you are still in mid-career all the benefits of a retired existence. It will be essential reading for anybody with a heartbeat.

On this site will be a host of entertaining and stimulating features on this topic - quizzes, contests, galleries of famous people who have succeeded bigtime while essentially living the life of the affluent retiree by using a host of Executricks. You will also be offered an opportunity to tell you own stories, as always; how you’ve served the system and beaten it at the same time, maybe even tales about those who did it less elegantly than they might have.

And of course you will be incessantly exhorted to purchase the book via a handy link at the top of the page. I hope you will do so.

All that is in the future, however. Today I would like to finish what began about a year ago and has continued with some energy ever since: the work we have done together on two important topics — the Crazy Bosses we serve and the Bulls**t Jobs we occupy. I have a trove of letters you have sent me on both subjects, many of which are publishable. I will now go back into my archive and work them up, so that we may complete both blogs, bring them to some kind of closure.

This is a big task for me. Fortunately, I travel between California and New York a great deal and should have plenty of time, if I don’t put it off. Then, after a month or so, I will bring together all my new stuff and any new submissions to the blogs that YOU may care to make, and retire both from this page, making way for new things.

The Crazy Bosses and Bulls**t Jobs blogs will not die, no way. They are deep, trenchant, funny, sad, illuminating, chock-a-block with YOUR stories, ideas and tales of woe and triumph. I read somewhere that since we’re in a recession we should all be repurposing things a lot more. That sounds like a good idea. I’m nothing if not a creature of my times.

All of this is a typically long-winded way of inviting all who are reading this to poke around each topic on this site, think about your own experience and those of your friends and enemies, and lob in a few stories if the spirit moves.

Due to the somewhat complex architecture of this site, however, negotiating around these topics and registering your comments and thoughts is not always as easy as it might look. So I’m going to quickly walk you through it.

Crazy Bosses

Go to the main home page and read about the topic here.

Then look at a nice gallery of Crazy Bosses, starting with Stalin here.

You may then read about the Crazy Bosses that your fellow readers have enjoyed here.

and finally, submit your own stories here.

Bulls**t Jobs

Likewise, start your Bulls**t Jobs investigations here.

Then look at a horrifying panoply of them here.

Then read about your fellow bulls**tters here.

And then submit your own here.

While you’re doing your thing, I’ll do what I said — go back into the e-mines and dig out the rest of the material that’s lying around glittering in the digital caverns. I’ll report back when I’m as done as I want to be.

Oh and by the way: anybody wishing simply to send me their crazy boss stories or bulls**t jobs without the comfy mediation of this blog may do so by sending me an email to bingblog@gmail.com.

That’s bingblog@gmail.com. Please mark your e-mail either Crazy Bosses or Bulls**t Jobs. Or, you know, if you just want to write me to say hi that’s okay too.

Have a great weekend. In fact, start now, huh?