Posts Tagged ‘job loss’
Bottom line: working for a living, and why it sucks
October 9th, 2009 | 
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The IWDTFM team during office hours
It will come as a shock to absolutely no one to find out that, every once in a while, when the moon is full and the leylines are aligned, I complain about my job.
This is not an uncommon occurrence. We spend a third of every day at work. Eight hours out of twenty-four. Apparently, the UK workforce is one of the hardest working populations in the world, putting in an average of £5,129-worth of overtime every year. I don’t really put in much extra time, although to my credit I’ve been known to stay late if something needs finishing. Most days, however, I’m out the office sometime between five-thirty and six o’clock with a spring in my step and my evening ahead of me.
So what do I complain about? The usual, really. Being tired, being busy, being bored, being hungry, wanting to go and play outside, wanting to stay and play inside. Wanting to be anywhere but cooped up in an office working for a living.
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Abbey Sherwell’s adventures in career trashing taught us all to be super careful while tapping out a quick wrathful tirade. Lately I’ve all been composing e-mails with the To and CC fields empty, just in case I absent mindedly leak some supressed fury into the message.
