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I just started reading a "reality" blog called Today On the Production Floor (http://todayontheproductionfloor.blogspot.com/). It’s like a blue-collar The Office (NBC, Thursday nights). The blog author is a production manager who smartly hasn’t identified the company she works for nor the area of the country she’s in–though she has given clues as she and her co-workers use the word "pop" for soft drink, which likely puts her in the Midwest somewhere, and wherever she is, a significant amount of snow has fallen already this season.

Location doesn’t matter anyway because, according to this author, the dynamics among the characters of production plants are the same everywhere. She identifies the players with affectionate names like Crazy Office Supply Jody, The New Guy, TheBearded Woman, GQ for a gay production-floor worker, and several others. She describes their antics with such detail, from Hedda working the system to get all that's rightfully hers to Mr. Brownstar asking the see her urethra (!) when he meant to say uvula, sometimes I wonder if the author herself is inventing the tales. To be honest, I doubt any fabrication because she includes the mundane ("the ever twisting audits and surveillance for our FDA / ISO re certifications") with the mania. But I don’ t care either way because it’s so entertaining. The best part may be the author’s editorial remarks concerning her employer’s and coworkers' apparent social ineptitude.

To get the most from that blog, you should read from the first entry in October so that you become familiar with the characters. Then enjoy the daily entries from the manager On the Production Floor.