As much as I am always complaining about my job and the soulsucking activities contained therein I am in no hurry to leave the company where I am working because the prison of my job allows me the freedom in my life. I know that what I do is worthless. I know that I achieve [...]
I have come to terms with the fact that I am in a soul sucking line of work. I get a pretty good (read: bad) souljob pretty much 5 days a week. Weather it be coddling managers and telling them what they want to hear or kissing the ass of some douchebag customer, it is pretty much nonstop. [...]
One of the nice things about being at a remote office away from my company’s headquarters is that I don’t have to deal with the various bullshit that comes with having a bunch of “bosses” all in one place. I am virtually done with useless company “all-hands” meetings, executive ride-alongs to customer visits, and other forms of [...]
I am a changed man. 10 years in corporate America will take its toll on anyone. The constant barrage of fake bullshit can be nauseating, but I have weathered the storm and survived intact (mostly). Although I have resisted much of the stupidity that being a slave to the man entails there are some habits [...]
I am sitting here on the last day of the quarter waiting for an order to book so I can have a respectable commission paycheck next month – ahhhhhh, the joys of sales. It got me thinking a bit about my job and the rest of the jobs that fill out the corporate roster. From [...]
I just endured a meeting at work today that was 40 solid minutes of nonsense. My manager went on and on about sweet-baby-jesus-knows-what and everyone listening had a mix of confusion and annoyance on their face. He opened it up to the audience and looked over to me for input. “What do you think” he [...]
I recently posed this questions to one of my coworkers: If you were married would you rather have your husband go to a sales conference or a guys weekend in Vegas? Her answer: unequivocally – guys weekend in Vegas. People are absolutely shameless at our company events. I just had my annual work conference (which [...]
I wish I was passionate about something in life. I could do with just about anything and not be too upset. I am always jealous of people who can throw themselves into their work or have something that they can earnestly focus their energies on and have immense satisfaction upon reaching their goals. I don’t [...]
After college I thought that things were going to be different with my life… I was heading into the “REAL” world. I was merging into the career fast lane filled with focused intelligent professionals who would stop at nothing to get the job done. Its not. Post college work is more like being in the [...]
I work in a salt mine… Actually, I used to work in a salt mine. Wait… that’s not true either. The term salt mine was coined by my brother about 6 years ago when I was working at a shitty call center grinding through my 7-4 shift Tuesday through Saturday slinging Direct TV equipment. He was visiting me for [...]