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I’ve been at my job for a week and i hate it.
I’m out in march
I have worked full time for 28 years and I hate it. Life is one long ,,unending series of things you dont want to do…cant wait to check out
I hate everyone I work with. I have never met such a bunch of inept people. The worst thing is they have all worked here longer than me and are considerably older, yet I do the work. Time to job hunt I think.
i wanna go home. couldnt be arsed with this stupid shit of a company anymore. in fact work in general is just wrong.
I hate my job.
I am tied in to spend the next six months here so can’t even give myself the hope of finding something better.
My Boss and colleague think I am the skivey. The can’t even get off thier fat rears to come and ask me a question. I have to get up from my desk and go to them. I don’t mind doing the work but I do mind the lack of respect I get. Would the call up the CEO and ask him to come to thier desk…..I don’t think so.
I get stared at as if they are challenging me to do something wrong.
They can never remember where anything is and I have to print everything out as they never remember where the files are located.
I hate working here. It depresses me every day but, as i said I am tied in and it would be financially detremental to leave……6 minths of hell.
I hate work, I only started 6 weeks ago and am ready to quit. The work is stressful yet boring/uninteresting and requires long hours..
I hate work. I like the people I work with for the most part, except for my boss and the HR guy. He’s a complete moron. I just hate that my life is bought away from me, and I have no choice but to sell it. I don’t get as much respect as I should for basically running the place. As an administrative assistant, I do everything and get paid the least.
I started a job two months ago and was so bored and utterly desperate that I resigned after three weeks. So then they kept me on as a freelancer as by that time I was entrenched in their work but paid me 25% more cash. Now they have told me to go but I AM NOT CRYING. I AM FREE
9 to 5 should be illegal. humans were not made for this kind of pain. the focus should be in the enjoyment of life. but no. it will never be this way. ok, so maybe we WERE born for pain
I got sacked from my job because i slept with my bosses wife
and also cause i nearly killed him with a spade
I really hated my job (insurance claims in a call centre) – so much so that I convinced my doctor that I was depressed and got a sicknote for 8 weeks.
I’ve now started at University on a decent course for a decent job – best thing that’s ever happened to me.
I was fired for reading the book “Fire Me Please”!!! I work in fast food and I was on break. So, I’m reading my book and my ass-clown, loser shift manager asks to see the book I’m reading. So, I show him and he says to put the book away cause it’s inappropriate for work.I told him nicely NO. He then says I’m out of line and calls the store manager. He comes back and says the book goes into my bag or I’m fired. I finished eating my fries and just walked out. The job sucked anyway. But who is this numb nuts to tell me what to read!!!!!
I hate work…..so boring, nothing to do, yet its cheap fairs…..work takes up so much time of our life….our lifes are mapped out by WORK…..you dont even get your birthday off. Work just makes less time for love ones and enjoyment of life! Lifes to short to die and still to have worked till your 65!
I dont know…Maybe I am just lazy, but I HATE going to work. The money is good, the hours are decent. I mean all in all, for my situation, and being 17, its an alright gig. But for some reason, I just absolutely hate going into work. Once I’m there, I am ok. But the first hour before I go is just awful. My co-workers are white trash (except for a few), and are all so tacky and try to be in charge. It really pisses me off when some piss ignorant co-workers trys to boss me around. I have no problem with proper authority, but she has just as much power as me!
Maybe I can win the lottery some day and not have to work. I hate it. Even mowing the lawn sucks.
I love my job, but work still sucks the big one. 8 hours a day, 5 days a week I am sitting in my cubicle dreaming of the outside world. Its not the work that gets me, its the day after day after day of it thats truly depressing. The most depressing part about it is that you have no choice…eithier I lock myself in my cubicle 40 hrs a week or starve and die…hmm, some days option 2 sounds pretty damn tempting.
I want to just quit my cubicle job and live on a farm. That way I don’t have to revolve my world around making money. I can’t believe that almost everyone in America, all they care about is money. Doesn’t anyone care about living their life and enjoying it? Money’s not important it only seems like it’s important.
Why is work so boring? all i do is look at fir birds all day…..
Work sucks! I am 28, a teacher and thinks that all the people i work directly with are weak willed losers who follow the leader and only like who he says it is cool to like! So we gave up living in caves and moved into civilisation, but then we had our freedom taken away by some bastard in a suit telling us what we can or can’t do! At what point does work go against our basic human rights?
In my opinion work itself doesn’t suck, it’s having to do something you hate in a manner in which you hate even more. For example what if everyone could do what they loved and make ends meet I think it would be cool. But we are forced to clock in clock out, work 40 + hours a week, get permission to go to lunch…etc. I agree with gingerguy, years ago tribal people were called savage, because they didn’t have industrialzed societies, but look who has life a savage exsistence now, I guess the jokes on us, cause I don’t know maybe it’s me but those so called savages seem to enjoy their lives more than us.
Im 24, unemployed, and still living with parents because I cannot cope with the adult world. Theres so much to think about, and none of it is positive. It also makes it difficult when I know damn well that nothing good is ever gonna happen no matter how hard I work, so why bother? Im thinking about getting on the government dole using some tips I learned from disabilitysecrets.com
I feel the same way. Humans are only smart enough to make their lives harder.
Well, I just hate living a lie…pretending to be some professional wanker with a drive for success within the company. What drive? I’d rather be anywhere else. And quite frankly, the company can kiss my fat deskjockey ass. Bosses who think they have control over your life, colleagues who try to outdo each other, a bunch of people who eat at the office (instead of using the lunch opportunity to get some sun on their pasty skin); and everyone’s bald at 32! I think I’ll look into trading share options instead.
I hate working. Human beings were not meant to spend 8 hours in an office with other human beings that they despise and thus be forced to neglect the human beings they actually enjoy being around such as your husband/wife and children. I refuse to accept this is the way it is supposed to be.
I’ve been working for two days, I have hated every job I’ve ever had and I want to quit this one already. I don’t understand why everyone in this world has to do other people favours for nothing in return…Or atleast just a shit wage that dosen’t even pay for the expense of living in this world. Fuckin depressing….
work is fucking gay, who wants to get up early and sit and make shit loads of cash for some overweight director.
wow lol, this site is amazing. I go to work fucking hating the journey, feeling absolutley depressed, then when I get there, it’s not bad, just the co-workers that piss me around. But i had no idea other people seem to feel exactly the same way. I only do like 2 shifts of 4 hours a week…….that’s nothing….yet I can’t fucking stand it, as soon as I get there life just seems to loose all colour (poetic 😛 ) but yeah work sucks dick, no other way. al
i hate work. god its just soooo boring and mi boss is just grrrrrr. i only go for 3 hours twice a week, but anymore and i wud go totally crazy. its a crazy place to work. everyone is obsessed with minutae. who cares!!! it makes me feel ill that i have to go, thank god i can quit soon.
im happy i bumped into this site…wow i hate work so damn much i work at a dollar store 2 shifts a week 10 hours total a week and it sucks the workers are fine and my boss is a sly snake liar…but i guess he’s allright.
I really dont know whats wrong with me its like everyone works for 8 hours 5x a week and i can only put in 5 hours x2weeks
i wish i can just enjoy life without
money or just win a bunch of money so i can work for fun…..anyways work sucks
I too hate work, I am a college student with sort of a part time job, I dread the day I graduate and have to do the daily grind, so I am taking my time in school although it is almost the same. Here is an essay I found interesting, and Im sure anyone who read this far will too. Its about the abolition of work. I need to go buy a lottery ticket.
http://deoxy.org/endwork.htm
24..no job..with parents..don’t even see myself working again. my last job put me into this shell that i’m in today. i know i will have to come out soon..but not today..not today. i just can’t stand thinking about workin m-f while i could be doing better things with my time. like really..working is bull****! we all know it, yet we do nothing about it. we are slaves of the money masters. we lose. ::sings freedom song::
This is not the way life is supposed to be. I want to be free of the burden of a job. I would not even mind working part time, but eight hours a day, five days a week is just insane. Our lives were meant to be lived not wasted away. I can’t even get a puppy because I don’t have time to take care of him and I can’t leave him by himself all day. Works Sucks. Life sucks. and Then you die.
I HATE WORK! I work two jobs and I hate them both. The sad thing is I enjoy the people I work with, but I hate the work so much! If I have to do this for the rest of my life I want to die. I feel as though I’m in a black hole. I live in a place where the median house price is 600,000, but on my salary I will never be able to afford a place of my own. I work two jobs and my fiance works, but he only makes $8/hr. It’s sucks!!!!!
i jus got a summer job as the whipping boy at a grocery store and i already fucking hate it.. i have to work 6am tomm on a saturday.. i dont know how long i can take of this shit.. theres a good chance ill just throw in the towel before tomm morning. ive hated every fucking job ive ever had, and im spending most of today just dreading tomorrow. i dont know how long ill be able to keep this shit job.
you guys all are a bunch of cry babies i have worked 12 on 12 off 7 days a week for a year straight in 130 degree heat of Iraq what is all this complaining about when work has you down just think there is always someone who has it worse
Friends, this is life. Money…yeah. Is this life??? When did it all become so miserable? Huh??!?! Why?!?!? WHY?!?!?! Oh god nooooo, not again!! I don’t want to wake up at 4:30 tomorrow morning to see my bitch boss’s fat face. O woe is me. But hey…it could be worse. IT COULD BE BETTER!
Wages in America are good compared to other countries but the problem is that everything here is so expensive as well. Housing prices are so high. I can’t imagine why it would cost over $300,000 for some homes.
It’s really a shame that people have to place work as priority in their lives instead of life itself.
College is mostly a scam because most of the degrees are useless and will get you nowhere.
I hate all living things. I’ve picked up shovels and press computer buttons, and its all a pile of **** when it comes to meeting / clashing with managers/boss/workers.
big fat c*nts ppl =]
Ah, cheers i guess -_-
I absolutely love my job. I work every hour under the sun and most of all i love to make coffee for all my colleagues – they are fantastic.
god I hate work. If you guys think your jobs suck try being a phone surveyer. At least I’m going to university in sept so I can quit this crappy job. They make me work 8 hours every SUNDAY!!!!! argh!
Ahh, thank god.. its actually uplifting to see people who feel the same way I do. I swear, we live in such a artificial culture obsessed with all the negative aspects of life. I do believe there’s lots of good things to experience in life as well, but its hidden underneath all the bullshit.
And I have to mention, I cant stand the phrase ” life sucks” because life doesnt suck at all . I beleive life is a great gift, but we ruin it so easily because.. well, we’re dumbasses I suppose.
I also hate work, but it’s not that I hate labour in general. The problem for me is that I hate the repetition, the fact that life is slowly slipping through your fingers, and that I am wasting it by being at the office 5 days a week.
I would love to be free and produce my own food and clothing and living with people who live the same way. That you can decide for yourself at what time you wake up or that you aren’t going to work hard today but relax in the sun. Now I have to do what I am told all day. One positive thing is that now I see how f–ked up it is, I just laugh about it and look for a way to turns things around.
I love the work I do, couldn’t be happier with what I ended up with right out of college. But damn, the people here make it so miserable! All they do is worry about when they are going to get another day off, who can they make do THEIR work, and I just get so freakin pissed becuasewe don’t do alot of work most of the time! They never prepare for anything, which always make anything we do ten times harder when we finally do it. They are morons! Is it common to feel like you are normal and everyone else is stupid and lazy?!
Believe me, I hate work more than most. I hate it so much I created a whole fricken website http://www.cubeslacker.com because of it. However, what I have learned is that its not bad if oyu are doing something that either keeps you busy or that you like to do. Preferable both 🙂
i’m a 17 year old and have been working at my stupid job, until now, i quit, i hate it so much. People tell me that if i get a good education I will be able to do what i really like.. i dont know… i hated these two jobs i’ve had…
I hate work so much, i dont even work that much but i hate the damn work! i hate it so much, i don’t wanna do it for another second… all the costumers yell at me, they look down, the manager is one big a$$whole, the shift manager is bad as well, the workers suck, the job sucksss i hate iittt
Lets see, after 2+ months, I still hate the job, & don’t get me started on the co-worker pricks, miserable a-holes from day No. f–king 1.
enjoy the work ppl 👿
everyone should own their own small organic farm, live off the land and be happy 🙂
I wouldn’t mind working so much if I didn’t have to get up so damn early my last job I had to get up at 5am to get there on time. Of course I didn’t last I just can’t take getting up that early. I rarely go to bed before 1am. I just can’t do this 5am crap just because I’m a late riser does not mean I’m lazy!!! I’d rather work afternoons or nights then days I just can’t get up that early!!
I’m a sociology graduate who couldn’t find work (typically) and decided to do a masters in Computing, as I thought a career in IT would be better than no career at all. Well it’s better than being unemployed, but after that I fail to see the benefit. I’ve been a programmer for four years now and I’m sick and fed up of it.
IT people (mostly men and a few ugly women) are the most boring, introverted bunch of twats going. People like this LOVE the fact that they’re stuck inside an office all day, gawping at a PC monitor. At any time I can look around the office and all i can see is rows of these muppets hunched over their screens.
we get less vacation time than any other industrialized nation. day in, day out, most of us just count the minutes until it’s time to leave. if it weren’t every day of the year, it would be more tolerable. but pretty much every time you open your eyes, you’re in the same place doing the same stuff.
ok i hate work so much i dont understand why i have to be here 6 days a week all day i do nothing most of the time. Cant i just have a day off
Hey guys, instaed of moaning about how much u hate your jobs and how u all run the place pritty much single handedly, why not Get off your arse and learn flash or java or c++ while in work. thus entertaining yourself and at the end of it u can make fun games where u shoot ur boss (and make it real 2 your office) and post them so that you and the millions of other bored people can entertain themselves 2 win win win situation 😀
gazZa
I wish to God i could find a job that lasted more than 8 months. I can do any job as long as i am getting paid. I’m 50 now, and i found the BEST dam job ever!
i am a janitor.. NOW DONT look down on me right now, how many of you can be your own boss. work at your own speed, hide when you want to..clean when you feel like it, and walk around several hours with a broom or spray bottle and rag in your hands and do NOTHING..then go sleep for 1/2 hour. Listen to your music in your Janitors room…i have a fridge a coffee machine and i stock food for lunch in my office..NO ONE bugs me. I love my job..but yes, at times it does get boring. The perfect job..im 50 now..and got 15 years to go….makes you pis sed dont it lol. hahahaha
i hate work. i don’t mean i am lazy but i dislike the working surroundings. i have to spend most of my time at the office with the people i dislike. i can’t enjoy life with my husband and my child who i really loving. why a job deprived us of so much happiness in the life. if someday i am rich, i will quit my job and do anything that can add sweetness to human life. but now since i have to make end meet, it’s just a dream to enjoy life with my beloved ones.
I like my job…. kinda. I have a good education, so I don’t get shit on too bad. I f–ked up my “time spreadsheet” so I’ll get shit on later. Damn. I hate working. No way can I do this for 41 more years, I’ll die, I need to get out. Maybe I’ll get hit by a car, nearly die, and live as a mangled millionaire for the rest of my days. Probably better than working for 41 more years..
Its all bullshit!
I’ve been a lifeguard,caregiver,tradesman,warehouse boy,retail sales,recreation leader. can’t get past 3 months at one job and they all shit me to tears.Why can’t something be fun for me???
you guys are pathetic. work does suck but you do it, you live with it, and your press on. you sit around and think about it your bound to get depressed. why? just accept that you have to work, be happy you have a job, and quit your bitching…
14:46 in the uk and im sat at my desk typing this message hoping that maybe by the end of it a few more minuites will pass, humans are the only animal on the planet who have to sell their souls to survive it is the single most depressing thing, i worked out that i spend approximately 75% of my awake life sat at this desk!!!!
thinking about saving hardcore for six months taking a year out and then repeating at least that way i will only have to sell six months of my life out of every 18.
JM
i hate work.
if it were a person, i would murder it.
true story.
i worked a shitty labor job because i couldn’t find a better one (i hold a degree). i had to quit after i injured myself. i’m working at a cash register until such time as i recover from my injuries (i hope i do recover completely) and can get something better. i make just enough to survive, and am getting numb.
i feel like i am half dead now, but at least i can’t feel the pain of this life as acutely now. life without working for long periods of time is AWESOME! camping, fishing, revelry, etc. life with work is slightly better than death. even when i’m not at work, my mind feels imprisoned.
writing more here won’t change my situation, so why bother?
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I am another work hater. I HATE IT so much. I don’t understand why, as human beings, we are being charged for our food, warmth, water and shelter – these things should be our birthright. Working all these long hours tires out the body, puts you (and consequently everybody else) in a negative mood, and burns you out – how the hell can this be beneficial to anybody? Shouldn’t we be allowed more time to spend with our children, pets and loved ones? Isn’t this what life is all about? I am not a mother but I strongly sympathise with anyone who has children yet never gets to spend quality bonding time with them because they need to put (genetically modified) food on the table. I think the whole idea of working full-time is abonimable. Sorry if I offended anyone but I think it is time the world woke up a bit.
Mabye part time hours wouldn’t be so bad but all day five days a week is ludicrous – and only 2 days off. They should think about changing the system to 4 on and 3 off – perhaps the world would be happier.
This is the governments fault. I have a question for everybody and PLEASE, PLEASE try to think of YOUR OWN honest answer: WHY IS TAX NOT VOLUNTARY? (Think about it.)
U should not have 2 work if u do not want 2 work. If there is something u want, working for it can be good as u get that achievement satisfaction but I agree our lives r all being taken over. Something needs 2 be done but it wont.
I hate it – work, that is. Am I lazy? Maybe. I just want to control my own destiny.
Work sucks, it really does. The amount of incompetent people I’ve encountered doing high profile jobs is unbelievable and it is these people that ultimately control our career paths.
In days gone by, going to uni/college would have ranked you highly in society. Now, everyone has a degree. They are all but worthless.
My mind is absent of thought on this. I’m so absolutely fed up it is not true. I’m lost.
I want to wake up naturally – not by alarm clock. I want to enjoy what I do. I want to live. I do not want to have to worry about money. Urgh…
I have a degree, can’t get shit for a job with it because it means nothing now. The unemployment here is over 5% so i’m forced to take a shitty job buffing floors with a computer degree, and deliver newspapers at night (which I like a lot better than buffing floors, has even payed me more on some occasions, and nobody bugs you). Yes, I am one of those people that can’t stand going to work because it wastes so much of your life and tires you outs so much, that you sleep too much for another part of your life leaving about 5 hours a day to get things done and see your family.
I get no respect from these employers, and they act like i’m not good enough to do their low paying shit jobs when i’m 10 times smarter than they are.
I just might go into business for myself, even if it’s long hours, at least i’m not working for some rube.
Work……….what is it all about, i f–kin hate it. telin ewe, im thinkin of staying on the dole for the rest of my life, f–k material persession, their nothing end of the day.
The government they just want to control u, and keep u busy so that u dont ask questions. We need to get rid of this government.
I agree with all negative sentiments here. Work as it exists today is a complete joke.
Give me the life of a mountain man anyday. I can only see benefits in everyone ditching suits & technology to live freely off of the land once more. Other than bills/food, my money(the little left of it) rotts in my bank account, as I just have no other use for it. What an incentive!.. slave your guts out, piss your life away for something you don’t even want!
The Man loves to make it look like we are the ones with the problem/poor attitude. You’re right, I’m such a pathetic human for simply wanting MY life back.
Mick Quotes:
“Give me the life of a mountain man anyday. I can only see benefits in everyone ditching suits & technology to live freely off of the land once more.”
I hear ya man. I’d rather be a hermit living in the woods than deal with this crap day in and day out.
“The Man loves to make it look like we are the ones with the problem/poor attitude. You’re right, I’m such a pathetic human for simply wanting MY life back.”
That is especially true. Like, we should all be happy making sh!t for money with a positive attitude while making the owners the big bucks. Ok, I have a bad attitude because I don’t like making my $7.00 hour at a piss ass job while the guy at the top makes six figures. What they really want for an employee is a blissfully ignorant, happy slave, not a person with a positive attitude.
I just started another job lugging big 170lb filter tanks of water down into peoples basement for a whopping $8.00/hr all in a nice 2 feet of snow. Oh, “don’t make any mess in peoples house”, Oh yes sir, I will lick the snow off of our boots before we go in. Guess how long that job lasted, a whole full day, which is only because I was stuck with the guy. Oh but, wait, I could’ve probably worked my way up in 20 years like the guy I was with…that’s something to aspire to. No offense to anyone that does and likes that kind of thing, if it works for you then that’s great. Me, I like to risk a herniated disk for a little more that 8/hr.
All the people on this board need to ban together to start our own cult against working. But we must absolutely not look poor and unkempt, lol.
I can’t believe there is a blog on this! I hate work too. I was just doing some keyword reasearching for google ads for my online business. I am unemployed because I got fired after 3 three years. Had a great service record with the company. Then they found out that I had a minor criminal record from 16 years ago. HR fired me over the phone. I had to call my boss and tell him I was fired. How stupid is that!? So I started my own business online, doing network marketing. This is the first time I am happy! People are joining the business, and I am training them. Working from home is much better. Because I am unemployed, or self employed now, I got in with a network marketing biz that is only $10 per month. Pretty cheap, learned lots, never looked back!
Mark Austin -HomeForWork
I don’t know what you ppl that work in offices are complaining about, try working in a factory, or on an assembly line for 8 hours straight, or working in a recycling plant where you a splattered with shit all day. I feel so sorry for you at your desk.
I hate work and it blows. My boss is an asswipe who got on my nerves, so I punched him out one night at the pub. Funny enough I was fired. That asshole Ross Campbell will get what’s coming to him.
i hate work cus this bitch keeps pickin on me the whole time she writes post it notes on my work like ”has to be finished ASAP” she is not my boss jus tinks she is…will knock her out if she keeps it up…as for my wages i went to college for two but i no ppl workin in our local supermarket who are paid more the me!!
We live under the illusion that we are “free,” but it is quite obvious at least to me that there is nothing free about our society. We have effectively enslaved ourselves. Think about it, do you want to go to work? Hell no. You have to. Technically, yes, you can quit. You are “free to quit. What happens if you quit though… you run out of money, then you can’t take part in anything at all. You can’t get food, shelter, or anything that will sustain your life at all. You can’t even hunt for food because that would require you to BUY a hunting license. You literally have no choice but to work for other humans, as (at least in my eyes) literal slaves.
You are all ‘slaves of society.’
I used to totally be up for consistant work, but after a while the wool pulled over my eyes vanished.
I hate my job, I hate that I have to get up every morning to go to work, I hate that I dont get recognized in anyway the things I do for my employer. I hate that I never received the promotion given to some other bitch that sucks the managers ass and takes credit for all my my hard work and effort. Sometimes I feel that the only way to get anywhere in life is by sucking the managers ass ( metaphorically speaking) you can work hard all you want and display all the skills of a good worker and leader all you want, but what it all comes down to is the ability play fair and unfair. even all my co workers agree with me. and thats what really gets me is knowing people know it and still not getting treated right.
I am at work now, sitting in the dreaded cubicle. Every job i’ve had has sucked. I am a college grad, what a waste of a piece of paper that was. I’m in the U.S., not sure where everyone else is. Working in the US sucks big time. Corporate America has taken over. We are like slaves. I am planning the great escape. Check out this other site too:
http://www.fthisjob.com. It’s rather funny.
My last job was at a grocery store and I HATED it. To this day im not sure if i quit or they fired me…(it was a few months back) My “bosses” we complete assholes and idiots who didn’t under the concept of SLAVE LABOR..(actually, they may have understood it *too* well)!!!
I hate working & I wish I never had to do it again!!!
I too hate working for a living. I’m trying to find a way out but it’s hard.
I’m sitting here bored out of my skull and feeling so antsy and I hate being here with every inch of my body.
Every time the phone rings I want to smash it into pieces on the desk. I hate being I can’t take it anymore.
I hate working, have been burned out for years, keep going, work or don’t eat, you know-Trapped. The worst part of it is the passive-aggressive shitty little games & office politics & narcissistic idiots so full of themselves. Wish I realized when I was YOUNG to save something every month, and that’s no SHIT!
I was medically discharged from the Army after 12 years for PTSD and depression. I had 30 days vacation a year and lots of 3 and 4 day weekends. It was great! The civilian workplace completely sucks. Your lucky if you you get 5 days vacation a year if you have to accept work through a temp agency that takes 25% of your pay and offers zero benefits. I don’t want to work anymore. I have an Associates degree which is crap but better than nothing…109 credit hours total with a 3.95 GPA and I hate college…I’m still at least 2 years away from a Bachelors…and the school I’m at now won’t transfer some of my classes. The cost for the classes I have aready taken at another school will cost an additional $4500…bullshit! How many times do I have to take the same freakin’ classes! I think I’ll just have someone break my arms to the point where I will never be able to walk again and start collecting social security disability. Before the Iraq war, my disabilty rating from the Army would’ve qualified me for disability retirement pay. But since the war is expensive, the Army has decided to screw thousands of soldiers by deliberately downgrading disability ratings. I may have been able to receive more, but 1 year at Walter Reed Army Medical Center was more than enough, so I took the severance pay to finally be able to come home. I’m still waiting on a disability rating from the VA; it’s been almost a year, and it might take another year for them to screw me too, and then I can spend another year or two appealing their decision. Yeah baby!!! It’s not like I have anything better to do with my life, right? Oh well, I guess I’ll just have to get over it and go get a job that will barely be able to pay my living expenses since I’m stuffing a private college president’s pockets full of cash. Then I’ll have another degree that I can wipe my ass with. I can’t wait……………………………………………
Correction…”break my arms” should read “break my legs” so I will never be able to walk again…LOL
I have a degree, can’t find a decent job. What’s funny is this girl I know has no degree, went to high school for hair dressing, and she gets a job in management for like $20 an hour where I can’t even get a job moving computers around for $8.00 (I have a comp degree), which is the grunt work. On top of that , she’s a total airhead. I know another guy, dropped out of highschool, and he’s starting at $10.00. It don’t matter if you drop out of school, because everyone just puts that they finished high school on the application and none of the employers actually check. I mean WTF is wrong with this world?! Maybe I need to start telling lies on resumes.
When we were younger, we all thought that there were endless possibilities…that we could do whatever we wanted. And then we all got screwed. And now that we all work…we think of all the impossibilities (if thats even a word!) all around us.
If only we had it in us to take the risk of leaving the cubicle and doing something of our own…then we would have the satisfaction that well, we tried…so it didn’t work out and so we’re here…
Yes exactly Parichay, i feel the same life is short never know when it will end and i hate to look one day back and regret not doing somthing else but i work in company that keeps u nearly satisfied and i dont want to fight life.
Every one around me is good, i cant ask for angels but still ihate them because i hate my work, i have a degree and work somthing a shcool boy can do and i have no experiance so it is hard to leave, its a trap and what makes me hate it more is that my work is accumulated and will never finish and am always considered late thus i care about more about my work than most of them , but because i hate my job iam not doing it wright thus it is silly.
i always get i emotional when i see i film where some guy changes his life or get over his problems, i have none but i am not doing anything, and time is ticking fast .
I want to delete this cause i feel bad after writing it ………
Good luck guys in u life
At age 42, I want to warn all the young’ns out there, find what makes your heart sing NOW and then pursue it. If you try to change careers midlife, you will definitely experience age discrimination on top of shitty pay. Also, maybe two part-time jobs that you can somewhat tolerate are better than one job that robs your soul. I do it now and it makes life more bearable. Also, for the non early risers (like me) try 3rd shift, it is a quiet time in the world when all the assholes are asleep (well most of them). HANG IN THERE
Thanks for the advice.
RBI, that’s funny cause I also work 2 part time jobs, one 3rd, and another one during the day that is not too many hours. I probably make more money doing that than one full time job, and work slightly less then 40 hours a week. I agree with you that it’s a lot better because i’m not stuck in one hell hole for too long of a time. They’re not super great jobs, but I don’t absolutely hate them like most people hate their jobs.
Hey Rick, the only thing about the part-time jobs is lack of benefits. But then again, that’s the state of our country..taking care if their own, ha? Do either of your jobs give you the medical? Just wondering. Thanks for writing.
i left the job i hated and went back to college to study for wat i really wanted to do..scary at first but am really happy nw!
Gentlemen and Ladies,
I understand where you are all coming from and it is nice to know that there are other employees out there that feel the same way I do. I am quitting my job at the end of May to take a PE teaching position in August. 2 months off from work to do anything that I want….hmmm…Cookie Crisp and Saved By The Bell in the morning. A chance to have nothing on my plate. If you despise work, but love children, teaching is a great profession. Contracted for only 180 days a school year. That is less than half the days of the year that I have to wake up and go to work. That is bearable.
Working sux. I hate mornings so much, I’d rather die than get up at 6am. I work 45-50 hours a week, hardly ever get to actually take a lunch break since if someone can’t get e-mail in outlook, instead of closing it and trying again, (which 98% of the time works) they have me do it for them, f–king morons. Then, I get asked to work with array formulas in Excel, WTF?? They assume, since I’m the IT guy, I have to know how to do this crap. Kiss my ass!! I get so bored, I wish I had some money to build a rally car and race it for a living, now THAT’S a job!!
Don’t you wish you won $50 million in lottery? You could stay home, go out do what ever you want when ever you want without having to worry about god damn work! One morning you could just get up and leave your huge house by the sea and take a holiday around the world. That will be the life.
But back to reality, I’m 18 years old, working as an apprentice mechanic and HATE IT! I like cars but working on cars the rest of my life THERE IS NO WAY IN HELL! I don’t know what I want to do with my life, I can’t see me getting far because I just don’t want to work.
RBI, no. Have been without medical for 10 years. : ) I keep myself in good shape and just hope I dont have any serious accidents.
Tim, I hear that. I like working on cars, basically my own cars that I can fix up the way I want, when I want, and considered going to school for it. But then I thought of the reality of working on other peoples junk cars for 40+ hours a week, constantly being dirty, and there went that idea. I figured that would be turning a hobby I like to do into something i’d hate.
My job sucks. Not the job so much as the people I work for – Useless cunts
Anyone have any idea why our parents seemed to be able to tolerate the same bullcrap for 20-30 years and hardly complained at all??? Maybe they just suffered in silence and we are the generations of the mouth and lotto dreamers…that’s gotta be it.
Just keep dreaming, it’s what gets you through..
I started a new job as an It trainee 2days ago and it is absolutly shit. I sit there all day doing f–k all. I am only 22 i should be enjoying my life rather than working for a shit wage. i think i might quit
gman, If you can afford to quit and keep looking, then do it. Especially if you’re not being paid well. Take it from someone who has had many 1 day jobs. I’ll be not even half way though the first day and i’ll already be thinking of how I won’t be there the next day. Even as they’re still telling me what to do and how to do it. But hey, if someone actually tried to pay me a decent wage, I might just try to suffer through and get used to the job. Hasn’t happened so far…Minimum wage 7.00/hr now! Wow, that’s something to be excited about. Now we can all live in semi-poverty instead of full out poverty.
it not just about this job it’s about work in general, why should we slave away when we only get one crack at life. i don’t know about the rest of you but i want to live life to it’s fullest enjoy every moment, wake up in the morning and think i’ll do that today. instead what do we have to look forward to, slaving away so some lucky bastard can wake up and do the same thing we can only dream of.
Hey all, I hate to break the news but take it from the mother hen of this site, you have two choices as you start your career. If you can gain a portable skill early in your life (i.e. computer guru, nurse, lawyer etc), then you can take this anywhere in the world and some day the pay will follow. I have to be honest and say that if you all think you are going to start a job out of high school making 50K a year, you better have the Trump name behind you!! If you stick out the low end you might just become a manager or higher level some day. Nothing comes overnight! So, stay in school and get a real skill that the world will always need and cannot ship the job out of our country OR grin and bear it for a while and maybe your dedication will payoff. Of course your 3rd choice is to try and sponge off someone till they give you the boot but there is usually no pride in the latter.
RBI, actually, you forgot going into business for yourself, which i’ve done, and I will never work for anyone else again! Of course, it’s not easy and takes work to make that happen, like everything, but you will have no one to answer to but yourself. Well, yoursalef and your customers if you want to make it work for ya. I make a better income than the average person and I didn’t even go to college, and I dropped out of high school. I eventually got my GED though, but whether I got that or not, I don’t think it would’ve mattered. So you don’t all have to think inside of that tiny box…go to school, go to college, go work for someone and hope to make a decent living for 40 years and save till retirement. But don’t think making money for yourself is a piece of cake, because it took me about five years before I started pulling in decent money. Not that all business will take that long, just depends on what you do. Also, must be patient and persistent.
you work your arse off,trying to keep your head down and stay off the radar and what do you get…. nothing but s&%t from your superiors who for the best part are the dumbest/annoying f%$ks your ever gonna come across
I hate work. I’ve tried going part time (30 hours). It was better, but I still hated it. Now I can’t even imagine ever working 40 hour weeks again. I tried switching positions. I did and it was fun for a while but then I hated the new position even more. It so boring and pointless and sometimes it makes life itself so bleak that it hardly seems worth it. I don’t know what’s wrong with me.
Wow! I neva knew so many people felt as i do. Theres more to it than just hating work, i hate been told when to get up, when to get there, when i can eat, what to wear, been told what to do by anyone, and for what? Money that i blow on crap. Its not a case of been lazy, im an inteligent guy, smart enuff to see that this is bullshit. Everyone at work, managers, supervisors and workers, would rather be elsewhere. I dont know anyone who really wants to be at work. Its shit, my advice to all is BREAK FREE! I love the idea of freedom, get up when i want, do what i want, rebel agaisnt this crap system and try to find a way of making enuff money to survive in mininmal time without work. Id rather be set free and have minimal money than work a stressful job i hate to earn excess money id spend on crap i dont need. Material possesions do nothing but make u feel like u really need them, and that your shitty job that takes up all your time is worth it. Well id happily neva have a flash care and designer clothes if it meant i was free!
I called in again today. The second time in two weeks. I quit a job I hated with passion this time last year. I’m currently on assignment with a temp agency. I’m thinking “Hey, by the time I get to the point where I’m tired of looking at the same people, going to the same building, performing the same mindless task, my assignment will be over and I can move on else where.” No such luck, I’ve been temping at the same spot for nine months now. I hate going into that building everyday. I sit there and stare at my computer screen all day, listening the vets (with the exception of one, all of the women have been in that department no less than ten years) complain about how they are ready to go home. If one more person ask me “Is it five O’clock yet?”, at 8:45a.m., I can’t be responsible for my actions! I’m left feeling insane because whenever I try to relay my feelings about how bullshit the whole work ethic SCAM is, people look at me like I’ve just committed grand blasphemy. I hate lying awake in a panic because it’s 2:30am, being nocturnal by nature, I haven’t slept a wink and I have to be up in 4 hours to go somewhere I don’t want to be. I hate not having enough time/energy to do things after work. I’m not a “busy-bee” and the thought of being active from sun up to sundown does not appeal to me. My five hours after work, minus the hour and 1/2 it takes to get ready for the next days work, I prefer to save for relaxing. Please don’t misunderstand, I have no problem “working” for what I need. It’s jobs I hate.
my work sucking fluctuates. i work and IT and im highly qualified and talented. but rest of my colleagues are not as educated as iam and they are jeoluos of me. i can’t show iam intelligent type if I do some thing nice they hate me.it sucks.
they are so sensitive and low minded.
OMG I hate working! I work third shift and I never get any sleep. Dogs barking, lawn mowers, bright light, people keeping me awake all the time, makes me wanna go freaking insane! But the job itself isn’t so bad and it pays more than all the other shit jobs around here…. so I can’t really quit. I feel trapped, and every day I want to go more crazy as I get another 3-4 hours of crappy sleep. It’s not even 3-4 hours of good sleep,.and my heart starts to feel so weak sometimes, I almost wish it would just give out at times so I can sleep eternally at peace and not ever have to work again! And there better not be a such thing as reincarnation or i’m gonna be really pissed! Unless I come back as a descendant of Bill Gates or someone else rich, and what are the odds of that?
i have been working at my work for about a month and i can not think of one good reason why i should stay. i am in the process of finding out what job i would enjoy and then just go and get it. from now on i will keep everything simple, becoz the more we think about things the more we f–king complicate it. So to all my fellow bored workers find what you want in life and go after it without thinking about it too much, remember you only life once.Good Luck in your journey!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
what I find interesting is that so many ppl want to not have to work, or work less hard, but it’s the fact that people have that attitude that’s the problem.
How do you think we all got stuck doing **it labour and crappy jobs in the first place? Cause someone else didn’t want to work, wanted to sit and live off of others.
So they obtained the resources and everyone else has to beg for a part of the pie.
Possession is the problem. Until everyone is equal…it will never be fixed (thus it never will be).
think about this:
if you didn’t have to have your “own” of everything then there wouldn’t be much of a problem.
most households have 90% of the same items in them, most of which are reuseable. …so, if you shared everything with your neighbours as a community, you could probably eliminate at least 50% of your household costs.
it’s the fact that ppl are so possessive, and self contained that is the problem
for example, two families who live side by side could buy all of their grocery needs in bulk and make meals together, buying larger quantities all at once is always cheaper and most families throw away some food
there’s less chance of being waste in this situation + food == cheaper on the whole…
anyhow…it’s how our societies have evolved that is screwing us over
The head of my dept told me how to do my job and he knows nothing of its nature. He just sits in the office all day on his fat lazy bum and leaves us all working on the floor to cope with the public all day. I hate him now! I want to leave but I need the money. I imagine myself turning round and saying to his face exactly where to stuff his orders!
Well I have worked in call centres for about 7 years now and I can quite honestly say that there is no worse job. Once your in that’s it your never getting out. I have quit so many, but just ended up back in a carbon copy of the last as the only work in my area seem to be call centre work. I hate the fact that the wage doesn’t even cover the price of living and I have money for about 2 weeks of the month and spend the rest counting the minutes till payday. I hate the fact that we’re meant to give a shit about the companies goals and expansion, when you know full well that however much money they make you are never going to see any of it however hard you work. I hate the management who seem to be genetically created in a lab with companies procedures and regulations running through their veins instead of blood (never smile, have a laugh and just don’t seem human). I hate the 5 day week, total shit that is never ending. What’s the point in working til i’m 65? when I will be too old to do the things I want by then, I won’t need the money then. I just hate everything about work unless you do something you are passionate about. I’m seriously considering quitting right now and doing some charity work and helping someone or something that generally needs it and appreciates it, rather than help feed these fat corporate f–ks to make more money so they can steal our souls and drive round in a Supercar looking like a 60 year old twat.
lol interesting site..
the fact is we all hate it yet it’s our only way of surviving.. heres an idea
REVOLUTION
against corporate shitheads
blackberry phones
ALL BANKS AND CREDIT CARD COMAPNIES
blow em all up like fight club
n end up with ZERO balance for everyone.
Then get that fat son of a pie director and push him into a lake
dont worry he’ll float
then go home n whatch it all on the news 😀
f–king this site is gold,its great to see so many people pissed off as much as i.i hate work as much as anyone and has always being a interfering factor in my life.having woken up to the bullshit we have being fed quite early i have tried different scenarios to avoid it .Once bought a dirt cheap house in the country and lived on benifits for a year ,growing veges and drinking home brewed beer.Another time lived aoard a cheap sailboat on a warf for free for 3 years and worked part time as a courier.not scenarios for everyone but there are even cheaper options for the adventurist how about riding your pushbike across the country living in a 20 dollar tent using an alchohol stove to cook .In this scenario the freedom factor is high but the costs can be extremly low.know of guys and gals doing it on less than a fiver a day.Again not for everyone but plse guys have your bitch bye all means but think like your life depends on it to get out of this shit capitalist slave trap were in because you know deep down …it does.
just a few minutes of my reedom left before another boring week at work begins. man am i depressed at that thought
I hate work too… I’m out in August when school starts again……CAN’T f–kING WAIT. thank christ i still got a few years of school left… gonna go as farrr and longgg as i can with that.
I hate work. It’s a load of shit. It’s f–king a waste of my life. Why do I do it? To pay the bills. Why are there bills? because I pay for peoples services or products. Why do they do it? To pay the bills!!! It’s a never ending circle of shit. I guess the only way to truly escape it not to pay any bills which means living for free – self sufficiency!!! That sounds like a hard life though, and when sickness comes around how the f–k can I pay to get better? I hate work, it’s full of shit. Work causes stress, disease, bad tempers, hierarchy’s of bull shit managers. I thought becoming a manager might make it better? Guess what!!! It gets worse – the responsibility and pressure increases and my life gets sucked away. I f–kING HAT E WORK!!!!!
I’m jealous of the guy who sleeps in the bus shelter when I’m waiting for my bus to work in the morning.
He gets to lie in everyday, he answers to no one, he doesn’t have to put up with shit every day.
f–k it, I’m going to hand in my notice tomorrow, a hobbo’s life for me, living free.
You’ll find me in the bus shelter.
I’ve been at this receptionist job for 7 months. I pretty much knew that i hated it since the first day, and through all of the time that i spent here, all i can think about is leaving.
I’m going to try to get into fashion design school next year. I need a job that has challanges that will have results to satisfy my work ethic. Work always sucks, it just sucks less if you can get satisfaction with what you complete.
Dude I work with dogs… I am a bather brusher at petsmart. this is a job to hate. i’m covered in scratches and small bites. and i have only been there two weeks and now i a have a full schedual I AM LATE ALL THE TIME. and all i do is work. i don’t take a lunch i come in early and i leave late. my boss’s boss is gonna be pissed about the over time i am racking up. plus we get these weekly chores that should be given to a maintance crew. not a bunch of dog washers and groomers. and i’m not gonna get into the drama with the co-workers all i am gonna say about it is my boss (the store manager) her aunt works there too. so they both get away with murder.
Face it. nothing is free in our society.
I hated every job I ever had. Now I battle traffic 2 hours a day for a couple hundred bucks a week. Man was not meant to work we where meant to enjoy life.
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I hate work. I think about killing myself all of the time. I’m stuck here and I couldn’t make as much money at another company, and I have bills to pay.
Last Friday I shut down early to go home and OD on pills, but I couldn’t do that to the man I love and had to home back to this abyss of misery.
Are we really meant to be this miserable every day? Are we meant to wish every day away? I wish I could figure out an alternative. At this point if I quit I’d just spend a year curled up in the fetal position and drooling.
I’m tired of gray offices… gray people… gray buildings.
I don’t understand why I can’t spend my time at home taking care of my honey, hanging out with my animals and tending my house.
You f**ing C**T women’s libbers f**ked it up for all of us!!!!!!
Anyway, I hate this vile pit and I get more and more consumed by bitterness every day that I’m here.
I was going to say that if I stay here until I’m 65, I’ll be a hollow gray husk with nothing left inside of me but cobwebs of sticky hate and bile… but as I see it I’ve got probably less than 5 years until that happens.
People tell me that I laugh more than anyone they know, and I do… but when I’m at work I just scowel and give these idiots the death look so they stay the f*$#() away from me. There is so much backstabbing in corporate America, so much stupid drama, so many people willing to sell their lives away… nobody gives a S*$#()@T about us!!!
There’s a song/video by “The Faint” called Agenda Suicide that captures this beautifully. “The drones work hard before they die, and give us our pretty little homes”as i lay to die the things i think
did i waste my time, i think i did- i worked for life”
“our work makes pretty little homes
agenda suicide, the drones work hard before they die
and give up on pretty little homes ”
mary you so get it babe i want to hug you ,YOU HAVE AWOKEN baby and its just a shame the rest of the world hasnt.Love ya vibe phil
I have posted here before, but just thought I would share my current thoughts. My manager decided to put me on a project about a month ago, which is no more money and no one else has to do this, so it is the same old story more work for no more pay. Well she was asking me how I was getting on with it today and when I replied “I have nearly finished” I was told “Hurry up” (that’s appreciation for you). My blood was boiling after this and unfortuantely I could’nt think of a witty comeback at the time (which is quite usually the case)and it all came to me after. I also applied for an easier job in another department this week for which I attended an interview and did rather well, however I was told although my interview was very good and it was a hard decision (all the usual cliches) they have given the job to someone externally who has no idea of the systems or programmes we use. Which I later found out the reason I didn’t get the job was because this hellhole department I am in is short staffed so they couldn’t afford to move me out. I just hate work so much and have done for years, everything about it, I sit here and just think of the things I could be doing with my life like travelling round to different places, experiencing different cultures and cuisines and meeting interesting people. But then realise that none of these are possible unless you have money to fund this and that’s why we have to come to these godforsaken jobs. The worse thing is with the money I earn I end up not doing anything I actually want to do as my energy and morale are so drained at the end of every day that I feel my soul has been stolen, I just have no motivation to do what I actually want to do so end up wasting the pittance I earn on going to the pub or buying pointless materialistic objects that’s it. It’s such a shit state of affairs and just feel that when you look back on your life and all the things you wish you had done, work will not count for shit and you will realise that your whole life has been dominated by doing something you hate. Sorry to bring everyone down but needed to express somehow.
ahhhh f–k work, i’ve been working as a web designer for 7 months now but dont get paid shit, at first i was all happy about my new job b/c web design was something i liked, now i just sit around all day counting the minutes i hate my boss who is a total b!tch who thinks she controls my f–k!n life i honestly think about just walking out shouting f–k YOU I QUIT, but i need the money and i don’t want to work at mcdonalds WTF KINDA LIFE IS THIS??????
I may end up posting comments here multiple times because my utter hatred of work (not just this job, but all forms of employment) is a recurring pain.
I hate working for a living and I want out now. There needs to be some type of mass revolution in America where all employees, regardless of job and position, just get up and leave work and refuse to come back.
There would be no negotiations where we, the working populace, agree to come back to work on some slightly better conditions. We won’t fall for that again. Each person comes back only when and if they want to.
We need to find a way to live where we no longer need money or some type of money substitute, just endless freedom for all.
Two things:
1. mj1531 said:
“I hate working for a living and I want out now. There needs to be some type of mass revolution in America where all employees, regardless of job and position, just get up and leave work and refuse to come back.”
Believe it or not there is a term for that. It’s called a ‘general strike’. I think Argentina has had a few. It’s awesome, everyone just says f–k OFF, were not going to work anymore until this this and these demands are met. It’ll never happen in America though, where people have been duped into this whole ‘work ethic’ thing. Ha! What a scam!
2. Check out whywork.org. It’s a great resource. Make sure to check out the forum.
All of these comments are proof that there is a hell of a lot of people out there who feel the same. Work sucks.
I feel so happy to discover so many people that hat 9-5 as much as me im trying to escape to colleg
what a load of f–kin bollocks Im sitting here making money for somebody I dont know and the most boring company in the world. supplier profile programmes, anyone?
I work a seasonal type job where i’m located away from home for 6 weeks at a time and then get two weeks off. Living in a remote environment with idiots that i have to see all my waking hours is enough to drive me insane. My bosses are micromanagers and love to bounce from crisis to crisis because they’re too busy focused in on useless details and don’t realise that as managers they have to look out for the big picture and delegate lesser tasks.
Half the world is below average and in my workplace that lower half runs the operation.
I hate that we spend the majority of our waking hours working. It should be the other way around. Also just doing the same exact thing day in day out in a little cubicle with nothing but old annoying ladies around you, while there is so much going on in the world. It seems like such a waste of life to do this job for what. Barely enough money to get by till the next paycheck. People shouldn’t be forced to live like this. I wish we could go back to the days when you hunted for your food and just did chores around you home. There is never enough time to just relax and enjoy the things you have. I can’t imagine my self doing the same thing over and over for the next 40-50 yrs before I retire. I would blow my brains out. There are so many other things I would rather be doing.
Work blows! I saw someone bitching about 9-5 earlier man I am doing 8-5. I know I am going to the looney bin. However, I’m putting in my notice in 8 days. It is going to be so sweet!. I cannot wait. I cannot stand these pricks! I am moving and I do not have another job lined up. I don’t really care though! It will be nice knowing I don’t have to deal with anyone’s shit for awhile.
Man I have a MBA with a finance background. I started out a job making shit because I live in a town with very little opp. I make more than most people who work in this shitty ass town. The problem is all the assholes from the cities moved down here to get away from crime driving up property values and now I cannot afford to buy a house. Now all the costs of goods are going up. Thank God! I am moving. I am moving and going to Valet cars man that was the best job I ever had. I got regular exercise I was outside all day and I actually made more money than I do now. I had a very little responsibility. Working in an office atmosphere is the worst job I have ever had.
I absolutely hate my job. I work 50 hours a week and have to meet target after target after target. I long for the weekends and on Sunday nights, I feel like crying. I can’t even leave as I have debts to pay off. All I want is a job that I can look forward to most days. Trouble is, I have no idea what I want from my career.
I hate work. I just want to quit and start a family. I want to travel some and then pop out babies! I want to cook, clean and do laundry and go to the gym. I want to do volunteer work at the childrens hospital part time to maintain some sanity and interact with adults. I want to enjoy time with my husband and I don’t want him to have to kill himself at work so I can stay at home…. It all comes back to money. I want to maintain my lifestyle and continue taking an overseas holiday every year, going shopping for clothes, getting my hair done, go out on the weekends to a bar and dinners etc. Taking out my parents and seeing them regularly.
Unless you were born into money like some undeserving people (namely Paris Hilton and the like) then you have to work. Problem is I have no passion for anything. I don’t have any artistic talent and no job I can actually get gives me the satisfaction of either doing something beautiful or worthwhile. I am a stress case and feel the stress straightaway if my husband is under stress….I don’t want to put pressure on him by being a stay at home mum. But I want that.
It’s all so hard and gets harder, children need diapers, schooling. Then there is mortgage payments, bills and maintaining some sort of lifestyle. When you work on the other hand you have money but limited time to enjoy anything! So over this crap. I hate the rat race and I just want to break free and take my husband with me. …
But still…let’s be thankful for all we do have and really consider that it could be worse…. Yeah right!!!!
I f–king despise work.I live for the weekends and I know it’s going to kill me.All I do is surf around the web , and smoke cigarettes.It should be easy, but I am surrounded by the meanest, stupidest, f–king retarded assholes that don’t care about anything, but to sabotage you, and make you feel like shit.The one who invented work should be Satan himself.I am stuck with this un-interessting shitty, boring job for about 1 year, untill I pass my trainee period.After that I am thinking in making a buisness of my own, or become a professional guitar player which I love more than anything in the world…God! I need a drink as I write this….f–k WORK!
Sigh, I graduated from law school several years ago; failed the bar exam twice and now I work as a paralegal making decent money and hating every second of my job and most of my life. One of my supervisors (and isn’t that a problem in and of itself? why the f–k do you need more than one supervisor!) barely graduated from college and I have to answer to her. She actually forbade me from leaving a meeting that she had held where she regaled us with storied of her recent pregnancy for over an hour.
I try to make the best of it by skipping work as often as possible, but now that’s become such a problem that my manager asked me if I have another job on the side. I should have told him, yes! I have another job on the side, It’s called a f–king LIFE.
In addition to hating my job more than facism, I married a woman whom i’m not attracted to so that I could benefit from her hefty income. I pretend to not hate work all day and pretend that she’s sexy all night. Occasionaly I think about killing myself, but weed, alcohol, video games, and porn keep me alive (that and the prayer that someday things will remotely resemble the life that society told me I’d have if I went to law school).
Undeniable,Thank god that there is weed, ecstasy, alcohol and amphetamines…Otherwise I would have killed myself…Work is the most f–ked up thing that could possibly exist . I go to work everyday, and when back home I am either high or drunk , so that I don’t cry or take a f–king axe with me the next day and crush their f–kuing skulls…I also work for a ”prestigious” company in EU and I own a university degree in f–king transport engineereing, and hoped my life would be better…I f–king hate everything now than I ever did…I think I am going to f–king die long before my tine because either the work, or the drugs will get me…I swear to God I used to only drink ocasionally , and rarely take drugs , and be a optimistic person before I started this shit…Now, I smoke weed and get drunk almost everyday and isolating myself from everyone…Work has shit me up pretty bad….
I hate my job, but have to keep it as most of us do in order to survive comfortably. Unless I build a shack in the woods and hunt rabbits for food, until I get arrested because some asshole or government organization owns the land. You couldn’t even find a place to live “free” in America because all the land everywhere is “owned” by someone.
I’m thinking about going back to school for the second time, but I don’t know what for, and when I get out of school, it’ll probably be to another job I can’t stand. Feels like one big trap that you’ll never escape unless you win the lottery or rob a bank and get away with it.
Yeah, things could be worse, but they could also be a lot better. What am I supposed to do, be glad i’m not a blind, deaf, mentally ill person with no arms and legs to make myself feel better about my job?
Anyone that uses the phrase “it could be worse” needs be dragged a 1000 feet across broken glass by a horse and then rubbed down with salt just so I could say, “it could be worse” to them.
Maybe i’ll just sell a kidney on Ebay or claim to be Bill Gates long lost brother.
Oh, and how about the phrase “money isn’t everything”. Oh no it isn’t tard, it’s only 98% of everything, and what you need to freakin live.
I hate peoples BS optimism just because they aren’t doing what I do. Save it and go to hell.
To “Disgruntled” –
“Anyone that uses the phrase “it could be worse” needs be dragged a 1000 feet across broken glass by a horse and then rubbed down with salt just so I could say, “it could be worse” to them.”
I couldn’t agree with you more
and
“Maybe i’ll just sell a kidney on Ebay or claim to be Bill Gates long lost brother. ”
I would happily sell a kidney if it would get me out of this shithole.
I have a decent job, but it is NOT for me! I have a college degree in Anthropology. The only way I can do what I want is to go and get my Master’s degree. The program will not start for another year..My family has a farm, I might just drop out of society and live off the land!the more I work and do DATA ENTRY, JESUS, DATA ENTRY! I did not go to school 4 years for this shit!!! Data Entry makes me insane, gives me migraines, nausea, it is the shittiest job! I am basically a secretary. wow. aren’t i glad i went to college. shh what a joke. a monkey would get bored doing my job. ok im done being on the computer I have to do enough of that all damn day! Ok everybody lets all join forces and move to some alternative community..i don’t know.
I hate waking up every morning to go to work and come home tired to sleep for another day of work.
I hate working hard and being told I’m not performing. I hate trying to please everyone at work to feel useful/good about myself.
I want to leave, but I worked so hard to get here (college, interview, job…)
I want to leave work.
God this sucks ass. I f*cking hate my work and my life. The Native American Indians had it right. Man, did we screw them, and ourselves in the process. I wish I could have been in this beautiful land when there were no f8cking computers, or buildings, or corporations, or anything. Just hunt for food and water. Be outside all day with your tribal buddies on horse back…..kill buffalo for some dinner and warm clothes. Smoke the peace pipe, fall asleep under the stars…..yeah, maybe the life was tough and life expectancy wasnt all that long, but at least you were really ALIVE! Who gives a shit to live to 65 or 76 now. Shit, everyone gets some f*cked up cancer or desease now anyay, thanks to all the shit we humans have done, pollution etc….Im off on a tangent , but I f8cking hate work!! Unfortunately you know what, this shitty working life is just what we deserve, its our punishment for destroying a beautiful earth….Its like God said, OK, if you dont want this beautiful place I created, FINE! Now you get to sit inside an office with no windows all day and you wont ever be able to go out in my beautiful land again.
We f8cked ourselves. Work is our hell.
Don’t ever work for a Stockbrokers unless you want to enter the realms of clinical depression and unreasonable bosses who only care about how much they can get out of you in the interests of the clients!!!! I am talking from an administrator’s perspective here. It well and truly sucks. I want my old job back – much nicer people.
By the way, I liked your post Mikey…
To Dreamer —
I also went to school and got a degree in computers and ended up doing data entry for about 3 days b4 i quit that shit. I don’t know how you can do that. Half way through just one day I wanted to blow my brains all over the monitor screen. I can NOT sit in a chair all day and look at a monitor without it feeling like my brain is slowly melting into goo and about to come out of my ears. And what’s worse, is a guy I went to school with that was a complete dumbass and did horrible on every test got a job as an assistant network administrator there. Here his dumb ass (and he really was a dumb ass, i’m not just being mean) got the computer job there and i’m doing data entry! How embarassing for me it was for him to see me doing that shit.
But that’s all because these dumb asses that do interviews don’t know how to hire the right guy for the job and need to pull their heads out of their asses. I wouldn’t want to work at that hellhole anyways no matter what job it was now!
My job sucks now, but I can always think, god, at least i’m not doing data entry. (no offense to you)
I hate work and I want to die
Dreamer said: “Ok everybody lets all join forces and move to some alternative community”. That sounds like the ting to do to me!
Phil said: “Once bought a dirt cheap house in the country and lived on benifits for a year ,growing veges and drinking home brewed beer” that sounds almost exactly like what i have been wanting to do…
The vegtibles in the supermarket are often inferior to ones that you can grow youreself anyway. I was thinking about completing my biology degree, but for what? Just so i can work for most of my life at a job i will probably hate?
Why should i work for a company that basically sh!ts on the enviroment and sells overpriced inferior products wich use way too much pakaging and contribute to landfill waste (almost all of the jobs aroud here)?
I need to find a way to be more slef sufficient. I feel trapped, i want out!
bit different for me, im scared of work. i constantly get new jobs but everytime it comes to going i bottle it and i always feel shitty after. i dont have much confidence and its only getting worse wish i could sort it out.
Wow I did’nt know so many felt the same. I’m 30 and work as a flat rate auto tech and f–king hate every f–king minute of every f–king aspect of it. What the f–k was I thinking getting into this field. Now my non college educated ass is either stuck in this field forever getting f–ked over by Honda warranty bullshit and stupid advisors and parts people that don’t know thier ass from a hole in the ground because our dealership is too f–king cheap to hire people that know what they are doing. GOD DAMN i’m tired of sweating my balls off all f–kin summer long and freezing my nuts off all winter. I would like nothing better than for some one to bomb us back to the dark f–king ages so all i have to worry about is keeping my sword sharp so that asshole does’nt invade my land steal my crops and f–k my cattle. SHOOT ME NOW THIS AS GOOD AS IT GETS.
BTW I make 21.50 an hour flat rate and have the potential of flagging 150hrs + while working only 80-100 in a pay period. So I make ok money but
I gota work my f–king ass off to get it and the second my hours drop off I got asshole managers breathing down my neck. This shit can blow me
oh ya and when no one brings thier cars in that day i get to make no money and typically they don’t want to let us go home so we end up standing around or they make us do some shit that pays half as much time as we have to spend doing it.
jeez it feels good to find a place to vent
I have been working at Zellers for 2 days as a cashier. I am ready to die. Today I already dreaded going in on the trip to work. Unhappiness, apparently a large part of adult life.
Really, customers that jump on me for taking 2 seconds too long, back the f–k off.
My job is easy, but I f–king hate working full time. There should be more to life than wasting 40 hours doing shit that you couldn’t care less about if you didn’t get paid for it. Even if I found a job I actually enjoyed, I would still want to do it part-time so that I can live a balanced life.
Not only that, but unless you’re lucky enough to get a telecommuting job (which I am not), you are sequestered from your home where you could be getting more shit done while working for some CEO who unlike me can afford maids & a personal chef. Every office I’ve worked at is run like a prison (no personal calls MY ASS, why do I have to save doing errands until after 5PM or before 7AM when everything is CLOSED?), breaks/lunches don’t give me enough time to run errands, not to mention my job is just computer work and making phone calls that I can DO AT HOME while I’m doing laundry, cooking, basically preventing my home from looking like the HELL it is now. When I’m not at work I am either sleeping or GETTING READY FOR WORK, or doing all the un-fun shit that needs to be done because I won’t be able to do it at work. AUGHHH. I don’t even have the energy to cook myself a fresh meal except dinner. Yes, I use a crockpot but if I had to eat one crockpot dish 3x a day I would rather cut my tongue off.
It’s also beyond insulting how I couldn’t get some of the better jobs that I am qualified for just because I don’t have a college degree. I had to quit college because of illness & now that I’m well I want to earn $$ so that I can finish my degree without burying myself in debt. So I end up working entry-level jobs I’m overqualified for & having to suck up to condescending people who can’t spell & spend their spare time gossiping about celebrities.
What the f–k are all you losers complaining about? Get to f–king work and enjoy it because that’s what the f–k we do in America. If you idiots can’t hack it, find a f–kin’ boat to China and sail your asses off you dolts. You think those people have it easier or for that matter the rest of the world? Shit, in some other countries you work all day just to find some a handful of food to live on so you can do it again the next day. So be f–kin’ thankful you even have a job.
I f–king hate my job too. I get in there every morning at half 8 and work my ass off. Doing jobs that none of my team want to do and just being the bitch in general. I work as a middle man in advertising and we have to do work for the people who we buy off and then forward that to the people we sell to. Its so shit. Everyday is a f–king deadline to meet and I just cant stand getting told what to do by another company just so they can please their clients. Its shit that when they want something done they just think they’ll pass it over to me and ill do all their dirty work so they can look good.
I want to quit but cant quit unless I find another job. I hate going into work every morning. I miss the days of being a student where I just slept in every morning till 11am and just smoked weed. Now I have to get up at 7am every morning and work my f–king ass off all day for some shitty company selling stuff.
Grrr
Hey “Shit-4-Brains”,
In America we also have the right to hate our shit jobs and complain as much as we feel like it. Of course I know that some self rightous testicle toucher like you will probably want to give his unwanteed opinion and that’s fine, but anything your hick ass wants to say isn’t going to make a difference.
I have just as much of a right to be in this country as you do, so why don’t YOU take that boat you wanted me to said to China to and shove it up your “I’m better than you because I don’t bitch about my job” ASS!
P.S. Work doesn’t suck any less!
I was laid off two months ago and LIfe is great. Work Sucks and I hated that crappy job. Life is wait to short to be miserable.
It’s not work I hate, it’s the SYSTEM of work. It is so unnatural. I worked for one company for over 20 years in a progressive series of jobs that really utilized my abilities, and I loved it. I never had a boring day. They downsized me for no other reason that my wages were getting “up there”. The pure crap I went thru for 3 years trying to get a related job, was just total mental cruelty.
When I finally did find one, all my job history was down the shitter (conveniently). Nobody knows me, nobody knows my history (even tho it’s on the resume) or what I can do, and they don’t want to know. They treat me like I was born yesterday, very belittling.
I don’t use a tenth of my knowledge. To force a human to be THIS bored is the ultimate mental cruelty.
Kathy—:
I know exactly what you mean. I’ve had experience in my “field” for about 6 years, then I eventually quit it because of certain “things” that went on there. The next job I got, they hired me for my experience, or so I thought, but then they treat me like I don’t know shit, and are trying to tell me things I already know, and I know I can do it better than them. They treat me like I’m entry level to this, when I probably know more than they do. And even when you try to give them the hint that you’ve done all of this crap before and know what you’re doing, it’s like they don’t even hear you. And the one manager would tell me how i’m doing the simplest little thing wrong, (when there isn’t really a right or wrong way, but ones way of doing it over the other).
Basically what it comes down to, is that no matter how good at a job or how much exp you had at it, you have to proove yourself all over again. And once that happens, doin’t quit, because they’ll treat you the same way at the next job.
I’m 31 and have been doing accounting for almost 10 years. I’ve basically hated every job I’ve had. Some start out ok, but then they keep piling more and more shit on you for the same pay. I hate it because of all the anal and analytical people I have to work with, but haven’t changed careers because the pay has been decent. I also hate going to a job everyday, I feel trapped in my cubicle, can’t come and go as I please, and have to ask my boss for time off. With that in mind, would it even be worth changing careers if showing up everyday is what I hate? People say to start my own business, but I don’t know what to do.
The thought of having to work another 30 years depresses me. I don’t know what to do with myself. I’d like to get married and have kids, but I’m afraid that I won’t be able to cope plus work at a job I hate. Can a career counselor help?
i quit working at 44 from a job i’d had nearly 20 years. a few reasons led to this: 1. i lost my office, a sanctuary for me; 2. i got a new boss, an idiot and a sexist; and, 3. my sister died at a young age……..and that made me realise every day is too important to waste on giving the finger to the idiot behind his back every time he left my soon to be ex-office. that was ten years ago now and i have no regrets.
All work eventually (and pretty f**kin quickly too) becomes boring and deeply depressing. Its the people at my place that drive me really mad. One is a complete retard but thinks he is somehow an IT Wizard. People spend hours sorting our his fukups, he gets in to trouble but still can’t see what an idiot he is. The other member of staff is a bossy old bag who contradicts everyone but management, interrupts and tries to undermine anyone who tries to answer a question. Me I’m an educated guy with no time for these losers and keep myself to myself, but its a long lonely day
work is a f–king disease
work is hazardous to your health. It is probably the greatest cause of most major diseases of body and mind. I would urge anyone with the option to do so, to quit their mindless job right and search for meaning in their lives.
Can’t believe that I am not the only one who feels that they hate work. Its not my job I hate…its work. I have tried everything & now am self employed and I am still not happy. Just hate the thought of having to work so hard just to pay the bills. Not even enough cash for fun, holidays, nice treats…I am not clever…never got a university degree so I have no option but to work for low pay. Wish I had less of a conscience as I would sell my body for loads of money and just get wined and dined all the time by rich people who want to chuck away their easy come money. Its nice to know that other people hate work too. Reading some of your comments has helped me appreciate that I am now self employed & do not have a boss to answer to, nor bitching colleagues who all hate me and each other. But even so, please can I join your community where no-one works and everyone is happy!!
I worked in an insurance office in New York twenty years ago and quitting was the best thing I ever did with my life. I took some time off and traveled in Europe (on my savings) and then after half a year of temping I came to Japan where I have been ever since. Now I study the traditional Noh theatre of Japan and support myself teaching English. I doubt I would have found the right path for myself if I had stayed in that dreary, degrading office.
I wrote here back in August and I’m back. Still in the shitty job, which pays well but I have to look after 12 morons who want to do bare minimum while my manager busts my chops and they expect to get away with it. I am leaving in Jun /July next year and going to start my own business! WOO HOO. I’ll still have to work-but I only have myself to rely on and answer too. I think I would even consider temping or part time work to make the $$ and just LIVE..
I got laid off! YAYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY!!!!!!!!! Someone up there did what I didn’t have the courage to do, get me out of that shit f–king job. f–k them, I hated that job anyway. Do yourself a favor if you’re reading this. NEVER SETTLE FOR A CORPORATE OR OFFICE JOB. Corporations DO NOT give a flying f–k about you. Follow your dreams, do whatever it takes to do something you love because those shitty jobs where fear follows you every day… fear that your position will be outsourced, you’ll be replaced, you’re not learning new skills, you’re overworked, you’re bored, whatever… that shit chips away at you and changes who you are.
Work sucks. The thought of waking every weekday morning fills me with dread. My boss and company don’t believe in the concept of work-life balance. 12-hour days are the norm, despite the balance that HR supposedly espouses. I hate all the bureaucracy, of going there every morning thinking, “Just another 12 hours to go.” The minutes seem to tick ever so slowly. I want to leave this whole damned place and take a permanent gap year. Life is too short to be wasted in a cubicle or serving idiots.
There is something better out there people!! Haven’t you heard!!
It’s Jesus !!
Life is not easy, will never be easy, but with the Lord on your side you’ll know something much better, better then Life!! or what it has to offer. Jesus offers far more then you could ever imagine. Are you hungry?, thirsty? for something MORE?, then Jesus really is the answer.
Your job, your car, your house, NOTHING will give you what your heart desires but Jesus can. He will direct your path in the way you should go. He will give you the life you so desire. So?, what are you waiting for!! Find a bible that speaks YOUR language and get to know HIM.
He WILL set you FREE !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I hate working so much, it’s really unfair! It’s almost crazy that we should be happy to have a job but my GOD! IT SUCKS SO MUCH!
OH YES IM SO HAPPY THAT I AM WORKING MY ASS OFF FOR THE BIG GUY SO HE CAN HAVE EVERYTHING HE ENJOYS! What about the good hardworking soul what do they get? shit! OH GOODIE I GOT MARRIED! YEAH THAT LASTEST what A DAY? It’s such bull! The pays decent (only to pay for crap like food, shelter, car, insurance) ITS SUCH CRAP, like I drive a nice vehicle which I should be happy about but DAMN WHO CARES if I have to live at work? MY PLACE IS NICE WHO CARES IF I DON”T HAVE ENOUGH f–kIN TIME TO CLEAN IT! IT SUCKS SO f–kIN MUCH! LIKE I WANT TO CLEAN AFTER f–kING WORKING ALL DAY! I wish I had ALOT OF MONEY, they are the only ones who TRUELY GET TO ENJOY THE GIFT OF LIFE! THEY REALLY DO THE RICH AND THE FAMOUS…LUCKY ASS f–kIN BASTARDS! I HATE IT I HATE IT! I’m not even holding back! LIKE I WISH I COULD JUST DIE! IT SUUUUCKSSS! I’m cute and seem to have more than others but REALLY MY GOD, MY JOB IS SO BORING! I DONT WANT TO BE THERE ALL THE DAMN TIME! EVEN IF IT WAS FUN LIKE MY LAST WHO CARES I DONT WANT TO DO IT! KISSING UP TO SUPERIORS HEARING THEIR STUPID MOUTH, ALL THE FAKE CRAP! PLEASE I HOPE I DIE REALLY I DO! SOON, PLEASE! I JUST WANT ALOT OF MONEY, IT REALLY IS EVERYTHING! IT WOULD GET ME OUT OF THIS CRAP! I’m in my 20’s and have a very long WAY TO GO! IT SUCKS!!!! EVEN RETIREMENT IS A JOKE, YOU HAVE TO LIVE OFF OF WHAT YOU SAVE THAT SUCKS TOO! YAy! A FIXED INCOME SOUNDS FUN! I JUST WANT A LOT OF MONEY AND I WANT IT NOW!
And in order to save a lot for retirement, you can’t spend a lot if you have a mediocre average income like mine. So in order to have a lot for retirement, I have to go through my whole young life saving money and not having anything nice. But hey, when i’m an old bastard and probably can’t even walk I’ll be able to take vacation and probably will have all kinds of back pain and other shit so I won’t really enjoy it, that’s if I even live that long. And if I die b4 then, all the money I saved goes to someone else .
But I guess we can’t all be like Britney Spears, white trash, drug addict , and can’t even hold on to her own damn kids making around $700,000 a MONTH. Yeah, she does make that for doing what??? She can’t even sing!
Even the recognition they dole out at my work is virtually meaningless. Employee of the month = popularity contest. Last month the employees who worked their asses off finishing an utterly thankless project (not me or any friend of mine) lost to someone whose achievement was doing the bare minimum at her job. Wow, she comes on time like everyone else and hasn’t f–ked up big-time, give her a f–king trophy. Who cares about those pushovers working on the weekend because they were given a special project that our retarded computer system can’t even handle. WTF.
Not having the job of your dreams isn’t worth dying over.
Not having all the money you think you need, isn’t worth dying over.
Find what makes YOU happy and go for it.
Life is too short to compare yourself to others especially immature, self absorbed super stars.
We’ve got it made. We can screw up and it’s not going to be on national TV!!
I hate working in an office for someone else and commuting to work. I have hated working in office ever since i started working in an office. Anyway I have to work until I have stated to do something that makes me money and gives me joy. Until then I won’t change myself for the sake of being liked by the people i work with. No more laughing at the office clowns jokes i dont understand. No more trying to be chatty or funny, comes off all wrong. I’ll be just myself.
f–k work for others..Work for yourself.
Hey CiscoGuy, I completely understand where your coming from. I too will not be laughing at the office clowns or have conversations with others about crap I could totally care less about. !! I’m tired of the pretenses. No more!!
Do not trust anyone, they laugh in your face then stab you in the back when you least expect it.
There is so much hate,jealousy,compitition in the work place that there’s no wonder so many of us hate Work.
It’s sad when it’s the work you hate.
It’s shit when it’s the people you hate.
but it’s HELL when it’s both.
i hope one day i get on the wrong side of the boss then i can say i got fired cos the boss dosent like me, instead of “i quit cos im lazy and wish i was in bed watching friends all day”
i also hate work. i hate my job, my co-workers and my boss. i also hate my life. I hate waking up early, I hate working late and I hate the feeling i get when i am walking down the hall to my office on any morning during the week. work makes my life miserable and I can’t quit yet. I have bills.
I am currently unemployed. I have bills to pay. Which means I am stressed out because I don’t have the very thing I don’t want. A f–kING JOB. How cruel is life?????
I hate my job, the people in my office. Work is busy but BORING! Same crap day in day out. The only thing I look forward to is the weekends. But the same old crap starts again on Monday!!
People people people. I agree with you, (normal [as in cubicle/desk jobs]) work sucks balls, but people, you live in America (well most of you). America is the LAND OF OPPERTUNITY. Do you know what that means? That means that all of you have the right and the priviledge to become who you want to be, and no one can tell you otherwise. Do you want to be successful and rich? Here in America, you can be. I’ve already reached that stage, and I’m only 18 years old! That’s right, I make more than enough money to survive, and my full-time is not even half of your part time (I work 1 hour a day whenever I so please), yet I make at least 2 times a normal person’s annual salary in one month, sometimes more! (and sometimes less…but rarely) Now, don’t get me wrong. I’m not here to brag. Far from it. In fact, I hate people who brag. What I’m trying to tell you, is that, people who complain about no control over their lives/destiny are stupid. You DO have control over your lives and/or destiny. You all hate your jobs, yet, you all do nothing about it. You heard me right. You do NOTHING about it. If you did something about it, you would not be posting up here. You know what you need to do? You need to take a day off (call in sick or do it over the weekend) and just sit and think. Think about what you really want to do for a living. The job that you would actually not mind going to every day. Think about what job would make you happy. After you’ve done that, research about it, and find out what you need to do to get there. Then finally, work to achieve that goal. Don’t give me the whole “it’s not that easy” bullshit. Make it. Make it easy. Make it happen. You all sit there hating your jobs and dream about living a better life, yet you don’t do shit about it. Study shows, and I’ve even conducted a mini experiment of my own, that if a person was shown how to make a successful and abundant living, 98% of them would not even do it, be it they’re lazy or whatnot. The main idea here, is that no one would be willing to do the work to achieve their high standard goals. Well peoples, I hate to break bad news, but to be successful, you have to do something. Oh my god! It must be such a shock. You actually have to work to make life better. Excuse my asshole attitude, but I’m trying to levy a point here. What I’m trying to say, is that most, if not all of you hate your jobs, but you’re not working to make it better. You’re only dreaming. And although I am one of the biggest dreamers you will ever come across, dreaming will only get you so far, and in this cruel world of work and money, dreams will get you no where unless you work at it, which it seems that none of you are doing. You also need to ask yourself this. Why are you working for a company? Can’t think of an answer? Well let me give you an “insider’s secret”. WHEN YOU WORK FOR SOMEONE ELSE, YOU ARE MAKING THEIR MONEY FOR THEM, AND YOU ARE GETTING THE “SCRAPS”. Sound like a shock? Sound familiar? Look, the simple fact is this. The American people are complaning about education and how it’s failing. Well look, the American Government and the really rich people aren’t interested in people capable of high-intellegent, complex thinking. They want you to be smart enough to get the job done, but dumb enough so you don’t know that you’re getting f–ked over, OR you know you’re getting f–ked over, but you don’t do shit about it. Sound familiar? All of these polititians and rich cocksuckers who claim to be with you in improving education and such? You actually believe them? They don’t give a f–k about you! They don’t give a f–k about you. They get more money when more of you support them, so they’ll try to side with you and sound convincing. You know what? You all need to take all of the selfish greedy CEOs of your companies and grip them by the throat and say “f–k you” and get rid of them. Start working for yourself. That’s what I did, and I never once had to step foot in an office. You should see my parent’s face when they found out that I make more than their incomes combines in a couple months doing almost nothing while they’re working their asses of and just making enough (God bless their hearts). I never passed High School (unfortunately…), and they all though that I was going to either go back to school, or struggle to stay alive. Well what a shock it was to them when I, their 18 year old son, began rolling in more cash in a couple of months, than they had been working a year. I moved out into my own house in a beachfront home in a prestigious part of California, bought a nice car (I currently roll in a Lotus Elise [my first car, and paid in cash] and am looking to buy a Maserati [In cash], but don’t have any garage space to put it in), and own property in Seattle, LA, and New York. What am I trying to say here? You have to work for yourself. If you want to live a good life, there’s no other way but to work for yourself. Look to the internet. That’s where I make all of my money. Also, look into serious stock trading. I’m starting to make a pretty good cash flow from the NYSE also. Anyways, hope that all inspired you to quit your job and consider working for yourself.
I work in a hospital as a secretary in the ICU. I am going to college to get my RN. I CANT STAND THIS. I AM A PROFESSIONAL PAPER STAMPER!!! I work nights to make things worse. I sit here for 12 1/2 hours and do nothinggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggg. Every time I work I feel like my IQ is dropping. I cant wait to get out of school!!
WOW.
I am not alone. All these years and I thought it was just me. I agree w/ you “successful kid”; sometimes it is not easy though. Spent 21 years with the same company, earned my degree and still not much better off. I could leave my present job, only to what– Get another job at less pay? It is numbing, stessful, spirit killing to have to work. There is other ways, and I shall try it out; but I will have to leave the country and live in the jungles of Costa Rica. I am packing my bags at the moment. Hopefully by Feb. 2008, I will be living in Costa Rica. I have taken it til I cannot take it anylonger. This life here in the USA is nothing but work, you have to in order to eat and not live in the ghetto. I think I have found another way of life in Costa Rica…and I am giving it a try!
Working in a factory for 20 years. Sometimes I feel and act like a robot.
I only have to work 45 hours a week; but when I get home I feel like the life has been drained from me. I hate working, there has to be a better way. But it will never change unless we all fight back. I want to know where the underground railroad to freedom from work is located? Is Eve really to blame for all this, damn that forbidden fruit!
Kerry lyn, you know you feel the same.
Work sucks which in turn makes life suck. So what do you do? drink? but you have to have money to do that and how do you get money..WORK ah the vicious cycle of the “American Dream” Dream my ASS more like a prison sentence – yes I am saying our lives are a prison. I also want to take this time to say how much I absolutely hate all these unbelievably rich people whining how money can’t buy them happiness – are you f*cking crazy??!! How bout give me all your millions and go to work for me and see if slaving day in and day out makes you “happy” – douchebags…I’m with ya Production Robot
oh by the way “succesful kid” find the nearest tallest building and jump off preferably face first
I don’t like working at all. It sucks so much it’s basically HELL. HATE IT!
THIS wokring in an office AMERICAN DREAM SUCKS…
Successful Kid, I hate you.
but I will change this, I can’t stand it anymore and I’ve only just barely started!
I would rather die right now this very minute than work until I am 65 years old. Work is full of backstabbers, promiscious people, idiots, morons, patronisers and lowlife that still think they are better than you.
We have been given the great gift of life but with it an eternal curse that is work. You either work to live or die during work because it is a necessity that happens to destroy your soul in the process.
Hey “Nobody”, try not to let these irritating people get to you. They have to answer to a higher power when their time comes. At least you know that there are backstabbers, promiscious poeple, idiots etc….. so with that knowledge you have of them, whenever you have to interact with them, just remember who they really are and then you’ll see that they are not better at all. For instance, your having a conversation with ‘backstabber’ remember that’s who they are, a backstabber. You know that you have to be extremely careful what you say to ‘backstabber’. Treat them like they’re all children, not normal children, stupid children that think they’ve grown up ( but haven’t really). You are at a huge advantage because you see them for who they really are, so use it to protect yourself.
Friend4Life, you make some really good points. I hadn’t really thought of it quite like that. It is better to see them for what they really are than to think they are friends and then find out the hard way eh. (Not that I would waste my time with any of them anyway).
Not everyone is decent and kind. It’s unfortunate we have to be on guard with the people we work with but one should not trust someone simply because they are co-workers. Friendship in the work place is hard to come by but it is possible.
By the way Nobody, YOU are really a SOMEBODY!!!
I’m at work again, it’s really annoying and I think I may go insane. 🙁
Many people work very hard until they are 65 years old to pay the mortgage, save money and to live. A few days after they retired they dropped dead. I have heard this so many times where I work and often see condolence cards on the wall along with funeral arrangements. With the New year fast approaching, the thought of working makes me feel sick and something needs to be done.
Hey Somebody aka Nobody, they die at 65 because they made work their number one priority. That’s what they defined themselves as, their job! and so without their job they die. So Pathetic really. I have more than a job I have a life outside of my JOB.
Everyone, just remember that it is the New Year soon and I am sure we all don’t want to be feeling like we do for another year so what ever you do, do something about it. Whether positive or negative, I plan to do something about this mess. On a funny note, a new member of staff who has been with us for a few weeks went on lunch break and never returned again. I know they have no other job but I don’t blame them at all. Good luck in the New Year people.
That is funny about the coworker. I think that is how I would like to end it. I seen this tv show, this dude quit his job and went in the break room and gave a speach at to why he hates his job. It was funny. I have been working in a factory for 21 years of my life. I just happen to find this website and it helps. I know I am not alone. It is one cruelty of life. Your life is only 1/3 yours. 1/3 your spend sleeping, 1/3 working, and 1/3 being free.
I understand what Successful Kid was saying, no matter what you are always giving money to someone. Who happen to be greedy bastards with more than what your dreaming of.
I am thinking of making a big choice right now, I am young and have already decided i am not going to be stuck. I felt that way when i finished college that i did not want to be stuck in a classroom of idiots listening to someone telling me stuff , but not actuelly trying to help me. So i left that, from then i have gone from thing to thing. I have been stuck with this sucky call centre job which i advise anyone who plans on getting one SAY NO!.
I understand where people are coming from, once you start a job that pays what you need but never enough. It becomes your safety net, you hate it, you moan about it, but you cannot concieve what you would do without it. It’s all the need to survive, we follow a pattern it was the same in cavemen times. NO WAY WILL I BE STUCK WITH THIS, say it with me people!. From now on i decided i will not let stupid assholes who think they are better than you, and know what their talking about talk down to me anymore. I will break the saftey net and leave, i saved up enough now. I will just have to go from job to job never staying in the same place to long so i don’t get stuck.
The job i want thank gawd does not pay that well, but it’s ok since it’s what i love and i won’t be stuck with the greedy money hungry morons which i won’t become.
REMEMBER IT’S NOT THE MONEY YOU WANT!, IT’S THE THINGS YOU NEED THE MONEY FOR, MONEY IS JUST PAPER. IF SOMEONE LOCKED YOU IN A ROOM OF MONEY WHAT WOULD YOU DO WITH IT? NOW IF SOMEONE GAVE YOU YOUR DREAM AHH UHU!
I advise for all of you who think it’s hell, put as much money as you can aside!. Even banks skam you for money,…..really everyone wants a piece of your working life. Just put it aside and keep thinking ‘il save up and leave this hell hole soon enough’ i hope that helps.
They should really tell us all at school ‘no you won’t become what ever you what, you will all end up working in the same dead end job till you can afford to do otherwise’ Since education does not get you s–te at first. I know people who did great at school, uni, college and they all work in the same dead end job as me and i never did that well at school or anything. I am smart, know what i want unlike all of them though.
I can’t stand working where I am. I hate the inbred, redneck morons who are all retarted. I can’t believe these people are hired and then keep their jobs!!! Are we that skill and talent that we have to resort to hiring absolute numb skulls to do work They work well below an acceptable standard with a miserable look on their faces poisening everyone else around them.
I hate work, it should be illegal to make people slave for money and pretend they actually have a choice. We don’t – you fall into something, you stick it out cos you have responibilities and basic needs and you know the next job will suck too! Why wish most of your week away?? I HATE WORK. I wish I was rich enough not to work…..
Bored! Bored! Bored! and stressed. Stressed to the point of forgetfulness. Nice to see I’m not alone. Merry Christmas 🙂
There is no way in hell I can make it to retirement in 34 years before I blow my brains out from this tedious repetitive job. Even if I have a million dollars saved by that time, I will be crippled or dead by then to enjoy it.
Oh and to Successful kid, what do you actually do for a living? Or was that all just a bunch of BS…most likely. Especially when you spell opportunity “oppertunity”
Hey I am CisccoGuys’ wife. I never disliked any job i did. I just try to do my best whatever I do as a matter of fact I like going to work. I thank God that i have a job, so many people dont have even have a job to start with and they wish they did.
What’s REALLY bad is when your life in general is so hopelessly wretched that you are actually glad to come to work to get away from it all, LOL. And you think to yourself…. “this is the GOOD part of my life!” Lord have mercy.
CiscoGuysWife, that’s becuase you have no idea what a bad job is. You probably only worked one job your whole life (which is how long…?)
I agree Kathy, not good if your home life sucked. I know i live at home, and it used to stress me out so i worked extra hours thinking ‘oh well less torture and i get paid’. But reALLY i would rather be anywhere but work.
You know what i did today, iit was snowing in the UK for the first time in ages. I sat down with soup and watched it for an hour. Im ill , but it was worth it to take the time off work. I thought SCREW IT im not going to waste my whole day in some crappy call centre and miss this!.
I hate it since people are always complaing when they are old ‘oh i was always woking i never got to see all the beauty in life’. Well guess what if you took a second off, you could have!. It makes me angry so many car accidents happened today aswell, because people were rushing around! for what? would it kill them to stop and think how pretty the day was instead of ‘oh this weather sucks it makes me late for work just great!’.
They can fire me if they want, im at the point where i don’t care they don’t own me anymore. They need me more than i need them, so they can get slaves to work extra hours while they go see their family and go on holiday.
If you can’t find what you want to do in life, stop and do something you really love!. See nice things in this world,outside of a crappy office or shop floor, you won’t regret it!.
Sadly, Dreamer, I think I may have become one of those people you mentioned (the ones who spent all their life working!).
It used to bother me a lot when I was younger, but I finally took a more hardened attitude, now that I’m in my 50’s and the end is in closer sight.
Kind of put on the old horse blinders, so to speak. There is no hope for anything better or different, so I just put my shoulder to the plow, shut my mind down, and keep going. I would really, really hate to drop dead five years after I’ve retired, but I don’t know what else to do, I’m kind of locked in.
I do think we have to try to think of the positives, or we’ll go nuts. Try to keep some of the beautiful things in life that we love, close at hand, as much as possible. Maybe being so severely cut off from those things, will make them more dear to us?
Your snow sounds nicer than our snow!!!
There is this certian motor mouth non stop chatting and to rub salt on the injury he has a really s–tty accent, I am considering telling him to give his gob a break or break his gob..I guess I’ll just endup enduring in silence, thats the reality of it.
I have the same irritating twit at my job. They must have been mass produced and shipped out to wreak havoc and mayhem in the work place. My motor mouth tick, has a hick accent and thinks he knows everything. He’s mean, in a very evil way. So whenever something happens to him, something bad, I laugh under my breath(a really big laugh!!) because then I know there really is a God.
Megatron, you seem to be quite assumptious, unfortunately all your assumptions about me and my job are wrong. I dont share my husband’s outlook about work.
CiscoGuysWife, did you ever work on an assembly line in a shop, or have to be out in s–tty weather all day, or even work in a crappy fast food restaurand. Doubt it. I’ll assume you work in a office-type enviroment, where you probably sit around chatting with your co-workers most of the day, not getting any actual work done. Do I assume wrong about that? Of course those type of people always say they do all of the work anyways, and would never admit to not getting anything done.
I HATE my job, with all capitals. I used to have a day job, doing Human Resources, a job that I love. meeting new people all the time, working 8-4, had a very busy social life, money to burn, and not to mention respect and pride in my job….that was before a company-wide decion was made eliminate positions and change job titles to save money. I had 3 friends fired, a friend demoted. HR became a part-time position I was able to keep my full-time status, however I had to take a SIGNIFCANT pay drop and work over nights as the overnight manager. I had only done it for a year, my life had turned upside down, I never had energy to go out, I lost contact with all my friends, i NEVER did and theatre, bars, concerts. I became soooo moody and upredictable I was started losing my hair and i became malnurished. In one year i lost 48 pounds,(best weight loss diet). Regardless I hated my job. Months later company restructures again creats new positions, and of course my old job becomes available again, however the 17 year old kid working part-time, and always manages to f–k up my pay and everyone elses, gets ther job, the response I got fo not receiving my job back was ” I had become to negative and bitter to work with people.” Today I quit and i can’t feel happier I am going to the same pay as I am now but i don’t care, It is duing the day time. I hate working nights, never work nights in anything that you do, It will ruin you life
CiscoGuysWife, it’s not so much your statement itself that bothers me, it’s the way you seem to feel yourself above everybody here. There’s nothing inherently wrong with liking your job, there’s nothing with being a positive person, but you seem to have zero empathy for others. You seem to be here only to flaunt yourself in other’s faces.
I tend to disbelieve everything you say.
Co-workers…do you just hate it when you have to make small talk with them?.Im sick of it, it’ like you have to act like a robot and talk to them for the sake of it.
Don’t get me wrong i like some of them, but i happen to sit next to the most bitchy gay guy, and his pal both him and her like to gossip about everybody none stop.; If you don’t do it your not ‘in’. Well excuse me you idiots sorry if i don’t like to gossip or talk to idiots all day. I would rather hang with monkeys.
Then there is your supervisers and team leaders….who are worse!. I hate all those idiots in cal centres and offices thinking hey are the next best thing. They walk around like smug pigs because they reached top agent . It’s like the world is so mch bigger you idiots! .
At least i don’t care about the job anymore, it’s the best feeling when you don’t care about it and can leave it anytime. It’s like let them lecture me for doing my job wrong, they can fire my ass then! in fact i wish they did so i could leave before pay day next. Just give me my last pay check and im outta there, they can go screw them selves. Oh wait they might need more slaves their cover their asses. It’s like you cannot even have a social life, the days i need off they make sure they put me down as working!, then if you do need a day off, they tell you what days your working only 2 days before that week. Bloody great! so i have to tell all my friends ‘i can’t go out i MIGHT BE working’. It’s retarted and im so done with it.
In response to Endless Dreamer’s comment about small talk, at work, if I am not interested in making any conversation I simply don’t make any. Many people at work talk just for the sake of it and nothing but complete bulls–t comes out. ”If what one says is no better than silence, then perhaps one should remain……silent”.
I agree, i swear….people get depressed from work. It’s not healthy, yes your lucky to have a job. But you would rather be sleeping in a tent in the wilderness, than a slave for life in a depressing job!. I know i would!
Jesus it stressed me out so much, i have a bitch trainer whose out to get me. She treats you like a school kid, it’s ran by idiots who think they are so ‘on top of the world’ in their little suits and cell phones. It makes me want to jump out the window!, off the horrible grey building that just makes you feel like a cow in a barn.
Screw the money, i hand in my notice in this week. I would feel better knowing I AM the one who left, rather than dump me on another campaign so they can save their sorry asses money!.
Just give me my next pay check and im outy!, i swear i would rather shovel s–t than do my job.
There is a big world on there!, i want to do so many things. I just wish money did not buy you everything you want but most of the time it does.
I have just been reading about an old suicide case where a worker hung himself after years of bullying at his work place. He was only 26 years old. What a total and complete waste, in fact it was said that the only thing in his life he was unhappy about was work. Consider that you spend most of your life at work and you can already see why this would have contributed to his suicide.
Work just sucks the enjoyment out of life.
What makes me laugh (and not hate coz they are so clownish) is grown up mature married idiots, gossip manufacturing motor mouths that even in a team meeting are itching to spread some bulls–t by writing and passing notes to their gossip spreading buddies. I mean this is really a great pile of s–te isn’t it.
That type of behavior should not be allowed. That is a code of conduct issue which should be brought to management and/or higher to have it resolved. Their lives must be really empty for them to behave that way CiscoGuy. They are acting like they are still in grade school what a bunch of immature, insecure bunch of idiots. I can see how you can’t hate but laugh at this display of childish ranting. You are not alone in working with a bunch of idiots CiscoGuy. Just remember the saying “Misery loves company”, so because they’re miserable they want everyone else to be miserable.
I dont mind hard work…i just hate having no freedom in my life to do as I please. Having to ask for a day off…having to check if its ok to make a doctors appointment with my boss…I say we should have a 3 day weekend….make life more of a balance! 2 days off a week is NOT enough! At the moment it seems everyone is living to work rather than working to live!
OMG i know! i would not mind, but they screwed my rota up.
I was the first one to ask for a 3 day shift, since i want something part time. Then they had the nerve to keep me at 5-6 days a week, and give it to some random morons who never even asked for it!.
All i want is some freedom to do the things i love, i have many hobbies. Plus i don’t get to see my friends enough, since im either working on their day off , or they are on mine.
It SUCKS! HOW ARE YOU MEANT TO HAVE A LIFE WITH THAT.
It’s like we are slaves!, we have to ask for permission to have a day off (you are soo right about that). I got told off because i took the day off to go to a funeral. excuse me!!!. There are more bloody important things than s–tty work, it’s like they are un-caring robots. They did not ask me if i was ok, just not to do it again. WTF!!
Are we not human anymore?, it’s bulls–te this is not a free country, there is no freedom, we are screwed from the moment we take up a job to pay the bills.
Hi all,
I love this site. For all of you who think that programmers in India have it great, its not so. Mad deadlines, death march projects and constant changing technology makes life hell. No to mention struggling getting to work and back because of pollution and traffic.
The IT industry has no place for folks above 33 in age. The younger folks do the coding and you have to manage them as you are already obsolete, incapable of learning a new technology..
I have been in between projects for so long that it hurts to even think about it. And when i do get one, i will be screwed again :(. I am sick of this. Wish there was a better way to live..
Got this in an email today, thought it was pretty funny:
Dear Employees:
It has been brought to management’s attention that some individuals
throughout the company have been using foul language during the course of normal conversation with their co-workers.
Due to complaints received from some employees who may be easily offended, this type of language will no longer be tolerated.
We do, however, realize the critical importance of being able to accurately express your feelings when communicating with co-workers.
Therefore, a list of 18 New and Innovative ‘TRY SAYING’ phrases have been provided so that proper exchange of ideas and information can continue in an effective manner.
Number 1
TRY SAYING: I think you could use more training.
INSTEAD OF: You don’t know what the f___ you’re doing.
Woops, it didn’t post all of my joke….
@ Kathy
That’s a very funny email you recieved. I laughed hard at that, please post the rest!
😉
Number 2
TRY SAYING: She’s an aggressive go-getter.
INSTEAD OF: She’s a f___ing bit__.
Number 3
TRY SAYING: Perhaps I can work late.
INSTEAD OF: And when the f___ do you expect me to do this?
Number 4
TRY SAYING: I’m certain that isn’t feasible.
INSTEAD OF: No f___ing way.
Number 5
TRY SAYING: Really?
INSTEAD OF: You’ve got to be sh___ing me!
Number 6
TRY SAYING: Perhaps you should check with…
INSTEAD OF: Tell someone who gives a sh__.
Number 7
TRY SAYING: I wasn’t involved in the project.
INSTEAD OF: It’s not my f___ing problem.
Number 8
TRY SAYING: That’s interesting.
INSTEAD OF: What the f___?
Number 9
TRY SAYING: I’m not sure this can be implemented.
INSTEAD OF: This sh__ won’t work.
Number 10
TRY SAYING: I’ll try to schedule that.
INSTEAD OF: Why the f___ didn’t you tell me sooner?
Number 11
TRY SAYING: He’s not familiar with the issues.
INSTEAD OF: He’s got his head up his a__.
Number 12
TRY SAYI NG: Excuse me, sir?
INSTEAD OF: Eat sh__ and die.
Number 13
TRY SAYING: So you weren’t happy with it?
INSTEAD OF: Kiss my a__.
Number 14
TRY SAYING: I’m a bit overloaded at the moment.
INSTEAD OF: F__ it, I’m on salary.
Number 15
TRY SAYING: I don’t think you understand.
INSTEAD OF: Shove it up your a__.
Number 16
TRY SAYING: I love a challenge.
INSTEAD OF: This f___ing job sucks.
Number 17
TRY SAYING: You want me to take care of that?
INSTEAD OF: Who the f___ died and made you boss?
Number 18
TRY SAYING: He’s somewhat insensitive.
INSTEAD OF: He’s a pr_ck.
Thank You,
Human Resources
i worked for several years in f–king civil service. civil serivce employment is s–t. i disrespcted the jobs i had. i made sure that i worked as little as possible and when necessary i used a lot of sick days.
civil service is s–t. the people are complete inbeciles. i am happily unemployed and enjoy it.
I think the only thing that bothers me is actually getting up and GOING to work. If I could work at home, I would love to work regardless of what I did. I work part time and get paid 13.75 an hour and I work about 32 hours a week in a call center as a loan counselor.. so hell yeah, I get goooood money. .. but when loan borrowers try to call you and try to tell you things that’s not even true, then insist on speaking to your manager, but your manager doesn’t want to talk and thinks you could handle it, THEN it starts getting annoying. Although it’s kinda funny hearing peoples BS stories on why they’re delinquent with their mortgage.. but still, I hate GOING to work and I hate waking up early.. I was supposed to have left for work 10 minutes ago, but I’m right here.. doing nothing. I think I’ll start getting ready.
Ready for a laugh? A co-worker of mine told me that a woman who works in our department was bitching out loud (while I wasn’t around) about me for leaving work ONE MINUTE EARLY one day! How pathetic is that? I work in an office and me and this woman do totally different jobs, so it’s not like it was any of her damn business because my leaving ONE minute early doesn’t affect her in anyway. She’s one of these goody-goody people who goes by the book and think she’s Miss Perfect. What pisses me off is that she’s all nicey-nice to my face all the time, yet has talked about me behind my back probably more than once. So now that I know this, everytime I have to see her in the hall smiling with that fake smile and pretending to be nice, it’s going to make me sick. On top of that, this whole company is so conservative and uptight that it’s like living in the 1950’s. Scary!
I’ve come to the conclusion that anyone who makes a big deal out of something THAT stupid and small must have a pretty sad life.
Yessss.. the Dirge of Work. It really is a slow, methodic, depressing way of living. Yet. we do have to live. I really think of the “Hunter/Gatherer” societies who actually “work” about 3 hours a day to get food. What do they do with the rest of their time? Visit friends. Jeeze. I’D LIKE THAT. Well, i do guess i like dynamic climbing ropes, and sticky soled climbing shoes, as well as Really fast racing catamarans. It still sucks though, Life is meant to be enjoyed, not enforced with this dirge of WORK
We have the Admin Assist (really bad secretary) for the big boss that is tracking my hours. She doesn’t know I know. So I intentionally mess with her. I set meetings in other peoples offices at 4 pm and take all my stuff with me so it looks like i’m leaving. I tell my boss I’m working from home and don’t let the AA know.
Anyone with really good ideas on how to mess with her should leave them here. thanks,
Work turns you into an ignorant, passive wage slave. I’m 18, and i watch my parents coming home from work–my mom works at a comp company, and although she is university educated, extremely hardworking(engineer), and has alot of experience, her boss (bitch who doesn’t have a degree, but is there since she f–ks the bastard she answers to) won’t promote her to a managerial position because it’s a threat to her position…the beurocracy in the company is crazy–the boss is only there to play politics and those on her good side get to slack off and do nothing UHH It makes me so angry that my mom has to endure this s–t…i’m in university now, and my future seems like the dark side of the moon…
i hate my job..i mean i try my hardest to keep a good head and i just cant seem to cope with this society..i mean i would rather go to a commune and just live off the land and chill out…i hate money..there is no need for it..the world will regret this soon enough..I HATE WORK!!!!!! f–k!
I hate working 40+ hours a week. I just can’t stand it. 🙁
Some idiot who thinks he is the life of the place thinks he can orgaiise my social life for me..i mean come on get a life….i work with you it doesnt mean i have to socialise with u aswell f–kin sado. I have a life outside of the work place and whole lot of differnet people that i want to hang out with. Stop trying to contorl my LIFE
Nice to know I’m not the only who hates working with a passion. I used to blame it on the jobs, but I realized it isn’t just the jobs themselves but having to work period. I hate feeling like I live at a f–king place and by the time I’m out I have no energy to do anything else.
My last job was at a call center for Pharmacy benefit management. Yeah the money wasn’t bad @ 16.00/hr but that barely makes up for putting up with your annoying co-workers who talk too much s–t and get pissed when you aren’t in the mood to listen to their bs or respond to their stupid fwded e-mails. I usually shut them out when I just stare at my computer and ignore them and they can’t stand you and think you’re a bitch or snob. It’s work bitches I’m not here to make lifelong friends.
Or that good old ”red tape” comes out more and more often and you find yourself not being able to fcuking blink or breathe. You have to rush to take a piss or s–t because every minute you take goes against you. You can’t cuss out clueless customers because they watch every damn thing you do on the phone and the comp and mark off points if you don’t sound like the programmed robot they expect you to be. There goes your raise.
I decide to look for another job where I wasn’t driving 60 miles per day and pulling gas $$ outta my ass every 4 days and my first day at the job was some stupid ignorant bitch who expected me to know everything by the 2nd day and proceeds to embarass me by scolding me like a child in front of my new co-workers (of course she didn’t talk like that to the male trainee who thought he knew everything) so I left at lunch and never came back. f–k work.
existing is just wrong… but there’s only one way out of it… but i’m too scared.
I absolutely cant tolerate work. I find it the most mundane thing on earth. The silly cow who works across from annoys me so much, with her fake voice & ****
After a good weekend, it is the most horrendous thing to get in my car on a monday morning and work for 8 hours, especially with two morons I cannot stand.
Anyway thats my gripe out of the way.
I JUST HATE WORK!!!!!!!!
Claudia!!!, Don’t you dare do what I think you’re thinking of doing. Dying is NOT the answer!!! If that’s what you�re thinking.
“Our worth comes from Him alone, and not from our performance in work or in any other way.”
Yes! this life is hard but just consider for a moment that what you�re going through is a chapter in a book. There are good parts and bad parts, happy and sad parts just like reading a book. So whatever you�re going through now it WILL pass and a new chapter will begin. Ask, PRAY for God to guide you to help you, and before you know it he has seen you through that chapter in your life.
When I’m going through something really horrific I can’t help but think how you�re thinking but I always come to see, especially after I pray, that this is just a bump in the road, a painful chapter in my life BUT it WILL get better.
Please just try giving all your hurt,pain,sorrow just give it all to God. He will protect you and he will deliver you out of it. I know. He’s always seen me through all my troubles.
Please Take Care Claudia. You have alot to offer this world even though this world may not appreciate your goodness, God does.
Its not that i dont want to work hard its just i want to work hard doing what I want to do not what someone else wants to and in my own time so i’m not starting and finishing work at a fixed time which is me being told how to live and im supposed to respond like a sheep and a yes man, , so basically working for other people means i’m selling myself to them, and usually the pay isnt that great, its rather low..
I think the only way you can be truly happy in a job is to be in your dream job, and alot of people delude themselves into thinking positively about their jobs by thinking this ” its just what you have to do, so deal with it, because its how it is and thats life” ..
I say everybody here needs to take positive steps in finding your ideal work scenario, otherwise its a waste of a life.
the repeptitiveness, the low pay, the feeling like youve been locked up in a prison from 8-5pm is not healthy …
no wonder people dislike waking up in the morning on weekdays
I know what you mean Yorke, I would rather be doing a Job I love.
Who ever said they worked in a call centre, know it’s the worse job.
You get treated like s–t, you must behave like a robot. OH but wait!, you must show sympathy for customers crying about their day. GIVE ME A f–kING BREAK, it’s just complete trash.
I have to go back, after a week log holiday. Talk to people about the same things, have the idiots who think they are higher up telling me off like a child.
I just can’t hack it, I am looking for part-time work. There is no way I am selling myself to a job anymore, it’s like being a prosi apart from your not sleeping with people.
It’s like you have times you can go pee, eat, LIVE. They were going to make me work easter holiday!, easter for crying out loud.
I don’t know anyone who can love a job like that, damn us for making people who live off the land come join our world. What is our world now?, we are like slaves.
There is so much to help with in this world, I don’t want to do customer service for fat greedy f–kers who can’t live without a dishwasher. Excuse me cry me a bloody river!, I would rather be out in this world helping people who need it.
You can have a job your good at, you just have to really work at it.
money is the root of all evil! it all leads back to money! we get stressed out each month because of bills and that we are afraid we wont have enough money to pay them!! basically we are stuck between a rock and a hard place 🙁 in order to get things we love and want we need money and to get money we have to be sucked into HELL…it doesnt make sense to me..why cant everyone have the opportunity to do the things they choose..we need to make this world livable friendly or something..we all need to go on strike!! and just not take anyones bulls–t..not anymore!!!
I hate work with a passion. It’s the biggest waste of f–king time ever devised by mankind. Man makes the money, then man makes man work for the money and then man taxes the money and the money just goes round and round forever! It’s a system of control people wake up! Then ya get two s–t days off and your so tired and stressed ya can’t even enjoy them! So what do people do get drunk because they can’t cope and then doctars and the government wonder why people drink themselves bloody blind! We should go back to basics, everyone has there own plot of land anf get on with it and trade for thigs when they want and how they want for all our technology we are no better off, we have MORE diseases than ever we can’t cure. They make us buy things we dont need stuff PS3 and Ipod food water and warmth thats what ya need to live and look at the West now, we are all riddled with stress and cancer……crap system man…
And you know the people who make the money and tax the money and run the money they’re the ones getting rich laughing. While us fools run round for them 5 days a week while they do jack playing golf and s–t!
I see all this potential, and I see it squandered. Goddammit, an entire generation pumping gas, waiting tables, configuiring routers, slaves with white collars. Advertising has us chasing cars and clothes, working jobs we hate so we can buy s–t we don’t need. We’re the middle children of history, man; no purpose or place. We have no Great War, no Great Depression. Our Great War is a spiritual war. Our Great Depression is our lives. We’ve all been raised by television to believe that one day we’d all be millionaires and movie gods and rock stars. But we won’t; and we’re slowly learning that fact. And we’re very, very pissed off.
– Tylder Durden
Yeah you right, TheCiscoGuy were are all in limbo chasing after s–t we don’t need. I am sure I read somewhere that the essentials of life are warmth,shelter,food,water! The people who we call primative, living in those tribes lead a simple life compared to us. Are they srtressed out no, are they riddled with cancer no, are they dropping from heart attacks no, is the quality of there food better than ours for nutrition yes, do their old folk suffer from demenia no, do they enjoy every minute of there lives fully yes, do we NO!
I don’t hate my work but sometimes I feel like I do. I am moving to new and exciting city in a few months and I have already mentally put my last day in. The thing is, I started only 4 1/2 months ago and my last day will make only 6 months of employment. No one knows my plans to quit because I’m afraid that if I make it public then there is a chance I might be asked to leave. I like what I do, but all I can think of is my new life elsewhere. I can no longer focus on work and I literally count down the days. This is highly counter productive and I get stressed out because it is affecting the way I do my job and people are starting to notice that I have mentally checked out. I should really take one week at a time and try to be as productive and enthuastic about my job as possible while I’m still here…it’s just really hard to focus.
I recently read at some time-wasting celebrity site about Paris Hilton saying something in her MySpace page about, “In my freetime I like to…”. What? Your f’ing FREETIME?! Isn’t all of your rich-ass time living in FREETIME?! Blech!! I hate that everything is all about money. The only money I need is for basic stuff. Why do I need to go to some crap-hole 40+ hours a week just to get by only to make some other ass clown rich?! Since 2006, when I left my last crappy job, I have worked purely temp jobs with pre-determined end dates and I am happier than ever. I take time off in between jobs for as much as my savings allows. Yes, this is not a good solution if you have children and/or bigtime debt. I simply don’t require a bunch of material things in my life and that is ideal for my situation. I think it’s even sadder for those who do have kids -you can’t spend the time you like/they need with them. It feels so good to know others feel the same way about this.
I f–king hate work! I only work 12 hours a week, that’s nothing compared to most other people. But f–k, does it suck.
This is why I want to be self employed, work my own hours, doing something I enjoy. (Web design).
Not having to answer to the s–t face that is the boss.
One can dream.
I hate my job. I’ve been working there for two months, and I don’t like anyone I work with. Most of them are female, which makes it like walking on a minefield. They are so catty and bitchy that I try not to talk to any of them, to avoid giving them ammunition. I hear them talking about each other all the time, and I can’t stand it. Most of them are in their thirties, which makes it even more pathetic. I think I’d like working there more if they would hire more men, just to break up the bitch circles.
I wish that people would realize what goes on inside those four stupid walls isn’t that important, and focus on more important things, like going out for happy hour after work and bitching about management, not coworkers.
The smartest thing you can do is save like a mad man and be extremely frugal so that after you work for 15 years you won’t have to work anymore. I don’t want to be rich. I just want to not have to work. With $500,000 you can live off of the interest and never have to work again. It’s possible to save this much. You just have to be a scrooge for 15 years.
Lemme see, let’s divide 500,000 by 15… that will be… $33,000 a year you will need to save.
You will have to have a pretty good income, because you can only save what you have already paid income taxes on.
If I had that good of an income, I think I would stick around, it would probably be a nice job that I wouldn’t want to leave.
Thanks for the joke Kathy, might send them to my lil office friends back in the home I call ‘work’.
I agree with the above, I would love to just live off land. It’s just now the way we live it’s impossible. The more money we get, the more we want.
I don’t want the money or obsession, if that meant I did not have to waste my life clocking in.
90% of people here live at home with their parents, even in their 30’s!. It’s because they have to pay so many bills, they can’t live a normal life.
I handed in my notice today, only to get screwed over by having another job that is JUST THE SAME. They phone me up, demanding I have to call them back. F OFF! I am sorry, I have better things to do than waste my time on your clock.
I am sick of working FOR people, being my own boss would be nice. It’s just that also is hard to do, you need more money.
I am going to try forget about it, life should not be about worrying every second. Still thats what we do, then when we get our crappy two days off we are too fed up and tired to do anything normal.
f the free world huh, I hope those idiots making money off us choke. I don’t want to work to put more people in a war zone, or pay for people who don’t want to get off their ass and work. Yet that is what most of our money goes on, screw THEM!.
LETS ALL TEAM UP AND FACE THE GOVERMENT ‘TEAM FREE WORLD’
Kathy, you forget that you’ll be getting interest on the money as you save it. If you save $15,000 for 17 years at an average of 7% interest you’ll have nearly $500,000 in the bank. I’m an E4 in the US Navy right now and it’s possible for me to save $15000. I just joined the Navy 2 years ago and I already have the ability to save that much, so most people can do it. You just have to do without some things. Now for someone making minimum wage and only making $15000 for the entire year my advice to them would be to do everything in their power to find a better job. Maybe join the military. Don’t get in credit card debt. Buy crappy cars and learn to delay gratification if you don’t want to work for the rest of your life.
Andrew, I love the optimism of youth! But in the real world, there is no assurance that you will make that 7% on your money. In fact, you may even lose much of your principal, as many people did on the last stock market plunge. I’m invested in a Roth IRA with Fidelity, a good reputable company, that has never earned me one dime. In fact, it has consistently lost money. Your solution is not a “bad” one, it is just not “one size fits all”.
Endless dreamer, what age group do you fall in? Would more education bring you into a better situation? I don’t think there is as much opportunity for good careers now as there was when I was a pup, so you’re kind of behind the eight ball there, but you seem like a diamond in the rough, a person who does possess good intelligence, but it’s not being directed in a postitive way. If you could find an opportunity to get more schooling, would that help? I know if you’re in a poor economic area, sometimes even that is a wash up.
Glad you like the jokes!
Postscript to Andrew, you will also have to pay taxes on your money’s earnings, so that will reduce the amount you actually do get, even if you do earn that Golden 7%. Even if your is in a thrift plan where you can defer taxes, when you take it out, you will then have to pay taxes on it.
Kathy, you are just a pessimist.
Not at all, just a realist. If you know the whole truth about something, you are better prepared to deal with it. But I am not going to tell you that something is a big bowl of roses if there is a possible downside to it. I think you’re grown up enough to handle that.
By all means, save and invest as much as you can, but try to do it with prudence so you won’t lose what you do have.
Go Kathy she’s right man you got to be a realist! This systems designed to keep you down, it’s not designed to lift you up that’s why they got he lottery to tease us!
I hate going to work. I have worked there 1.5 years. I made a mistake, broke the law and was forced to quit a job I loved because of the conviction. I moved to a small rural town to begin a new job and life. Two months after starting one of my co-workers did a background check on me because she didn’t believe anyone would leave the type of job I had to work in a small town hospital, She shared it with everyone at work. Slipped it under the doors of my director of nursing and the HR manager, in I assume in an effort to have me fired. I have not been liked since. Since then I have been shunned, people talk behind my back. The people there gossip about everyone, stab people in the back then smile to their face. The people are clicky. If you don’t belong you’re sh**. I have not done anything to anyone there to make them dislike me. They treated a new employee like crap, excluded her from conversation and in the infrequent times when she was included they made her feel inadequate and worthless. The first time that I worked with her she told me that no one there had one good thing good to say about me, yet I was the only one there who talked to her and treated her like she was worth something. She fought back tears as she was telling me. The following night she quit 2 hours before her next shift. I’m looking for a new job but my misdemeanor convictions make it difficult. No employer wants to hire a nurse with a record. I’m at my wits end. I absolutely hate work, the thought of going to work stresses me. I have talked to my boss about it but she’s has done nothing to change the situation. I’m an excellent nurse, have gone above and beyond in the when it comes to my patients care. Several lives have been saved because of knowledge and care. ANY ADVICE IS WELCOMED, THANKS!
I felt like such an iddiot googleing a i hate work thing, but im glad im not the only one in this world!!
I HATE it with passion. I just find it sooo tidus, i was just born to have money, get up at midday get ready meet my friends for lunch and just live the high life.
Why should we have to work?
Its although we are just slaves on this planet!! I cant bere it!!
I am not a morning person either and i have had to go to the doctor to get signed off loads of times for apparent “depression so i can just chill, sleep in, holiday, and be happy!!
Dont even get me started on holidays…. i have to try and avoid having them because i really have to physic myself up loads or i just wont return and look for a new job!!
For example last summer i was on holiday for 3 weeks returned and gfot signed off just after i was paid then flew back out there and chilled abroad and quite after i got paid the following month.
You may think im mad but i just cant stand it! And why is it everyone at work are just reatared!! Its although they arnt on this planet. I also grow to hate the area whatever my office is based in. For instance im in an area of london now and im begging to hate parts of london. Its not good!!
O well Lets just all be slaves!
Does anyone alse feel this way out ther??
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This site had me cracking up… I sit in a cube all day and make cold calls – people don’t want to buy my s–t, and I quite frankly don’t want to sell it. But I gotta hit these f–king sales numbers, so I numbly and uninspiredly make the calls, schedule the meetings.
I save over half of my paychecks so that someday I won’t have to do this s–t anymore. I don’t mind eating Ramen and living with roommates if it means I’ll be financially independent sooner.
Kathy I am 19, I know thats still young and all but I feel older the more I waste life. I did go to school, did not get anything out of it though. School never teaches you the right life skills, that you will all be stuck trying to make money to live for most of your life.
Funny enough, I did get stuck in a office with lots of well educated people from school and uni. These are people I thought would be going places, instead I find them stuck in the same boring job as me.
Tbh if I had a choice I would say screw the money, I would rather not have it if it means what we have to go through. It’s just unfortunate we have to pay for things we love, like holidays etc.
I know what you mean (top above poster) about cold calls. You think selling is bad?, try collecting debt.
It’s not nice, I have to call people at stupid times of the day, trying to sort out their problems I don’t care about. Not to mention I don’t want to talk about their debt, it’s horrible if you know people in that situation.
Of course I have to work for a greedy bank, who pretends to care about it’s customers.
We live in a horrible world sometimes, I think we should all save our paychecks as much as we can.
It’s hard, but at least you can save some sort of future. I have saved up my whole working life now. I know this couple who have been saving for four years, living poor. They are going away for 3 years, I was so happy for them , they worked soo hard.
We can all do that I am sure
I work only part time, and I can barely tolerate that. I can’t stand being forced to be somewhere at a certain time of day with no say in it what-so-ever. I don’t even think I can do full time again, ehhwww.
I’d rather not have a lot of material possessions and would rather work less. Far as i’m concerned, all the people with their expensive cars and big houses are just really stuck at their job with no way out because they have all those payments.
If driving a used car, living in a decent small house and getting them paid off, and save some money up get me out of work in 20 years instead of 40, then so be it.
I’d rather be happy with less money and my freedom, then making a lot of money and being a slave and stuck in a job till 65.
It’s true, work absolutely blows. I have a good job, I’m a professional and I should have no complaints but just waking up in the morning to go to work sucks. The concept of work just sucks. You sit there at your desk for 9 hours a day 5 days a week, stressing out over projects while your life just slips away like sand through your fingers. Humans need to not underestimate the value of recreation and lesuire time. We’re all slowly killing ourselves prematurely. I don’t know if I’m just particularly lazy or what but, if I was given the chance I could sleep 10 – 12 hours every night, easily.
i hate work too lol sorry to contribute. my work is so boring and comfortable and it just pays the bills and i’m not learning anything it’s so boring. everyone works here till they die, what a prison. humans aren’t made to live in ugly cubicles 40+ hours a week, 50 years of their lives. i have got to find something else to seriously spend my time, i feel i’m wasting my life away. school was ok, but after school is done, it’s like the same old s–t all over again. and when you look for another job, chances are high, it’s still the same old s–t. i can only think of working for myself, but i don’t have the discipline or can take the risk? dear god grant me the will to get out of my prison and persist. amen.
You just feel trapped in that your being told how to live and are given tasks 5 days a week that your not really interested in because its for someone else, its for a company that in essence has nothing to do with me or you unless you built it, the only way to break free from this lifestyle is to make money from your own creative resources or find a job that is enjoyable enough to disregard all the mundaine crap that goes along with it …
Adam, getting up in the morning hour and a hlf or two hours before the start time so we get at work in time and then stay there for another 8 hours before taking the hour long commute back to home just sucks doesn’t it. I still see people at work enjoying themselves I am not sure if they love the job or if they are just pretending, but i envy them in a way. If I only had myself to look after I would have long quit the job.
I pray every single day for the strength to continue this journey but I don’t know how much longer I will last. Work sucks so much and I am not even working for very long each day. We have been given this great gift of life only for it to be taken away by work. I ask myself, what is the difference between being dead and working, well the difference is tax.
I hate my job so much. I can’t stand the people I work with. The manager is inept. & I want to punch my supervisors. It’s one rule for them & another one for us ‘lowly’ sales assistants.
When you happen to be out sick all they do is bitch & moan behind your back like it’s going to fall apart without one sales assistant & when you’re in they still moan about you.
If you’re caught standing, doing nothing for more than two seconds then you practically get a warning. But our supervisors can stand & chat all day if they like.
It’s even more annoying when half the people are younger than you. We are supposed to be off at 6 when the shop is closed but we are never out will 7 because they stand around talking & cashing up. Things that the sales assistants don’t need to stay there for.
It’s 9 hours of pure hell.
Jean i used to work a similar type sales assistant job when i was younger but now i would just honestly tell them “where to shove it” if it was warranted ..or i’d nicely say it straight and tell them they are in the wrong, and i’d probably walk out of the job, fact is we volunteer to work for a company, its not forced so i can walk out and start another job anytime, yeh its not easy finding work but if we really want we can find another job in zero time by ringing up companies …the most important thing is to find a place that treats you right and where your mind can be stimulated enough to come back each day ..otherwise you’ll feel like your mind is melting by all the repetative mundaine tasts, thats why i envy artists who can make a living doing their niche thing in their own time. .
its freedom of speach, so we can be bluntly sincere to anyone even a superior at work, even if your fired which i doubt you’ll respect yourself for being 100% honest with your own beliefs ..
thats not saying we should be negative at work, you can still enjoy yourself and stay in the moment around people, but even you dont who cares? often i find even showing up to the job/slave environment as insincere in the action of being there itself, unfortunately there are limited alternatives to making money ..
hey everyone tell me about it….i guess my job is not so bad i work for a university and recently applied for a higher grade in my own team…as am sick of doing all the admin work and any other crap that comes my way….welll guess what i didnt get the job because i dont have 18 months experience of strategic plannin…but they obviously didnt think about that when they accepted my application so soon i shall quit and look for a new job which after 6 months i will be sick off again….
sometimes i look out of the window and see birds flying i know it sounds cheesy but they are truly free to raom and do as they please while we are still stuck in the same damn routine….looking at a computer screen day in and out 🙁
so am gonna quit in august and take the time out to do what I WANT and spend some time with my family and god coz to be honest all the money in the world cant replace loved ones or your health so try to enjoy life while you can .and i hope all of you find your dream jobs am sure they are there so keep flying and trying…..
Yorke I very much agree. Although once you get settled in a job, your scared of change. A load of ‘what if’s’ come to mind, like:
‘what if I can’t pay these bills’
‘what if I can’t find more work’
what if WHAT BLOODY IF. I don’t like it at all, I like freedom but it’s hard when we live in a fish bowl. Thats right people WE LIVE IN A BIG BUBBLE WHERE BIG PEOPLE OUTSIDE LAUGH AT US WHILE WE SLAVE AWAY. It’s all a system, it was built to keep us there.
I wish Yorke I could have the guts to tell alot of people at work to f–k off. I hate the lady who trains me, she thinks I am dumb because I don’t take a interest in the s–tty work. I am only on training period!, yet I feel like I am back at school. It’s all learning, more tests, more learning, having people ask you 600 times ‘do you understand’.
I agree with kathy, I would rather live poor – than work full time, again. I can’t do it, I also can’t stand office work anymore. I think I am a person who hates taking orders, I need alot of brain work; but from creative things. I like doing my own research, coming up with my own opinions. In every bloody office job I have had it’s YOU MUST DO THINGS OUR WAY. Nothing is creative, it’s all money grabbing figures.
Whenever you phone a call center, keep in mind they don’t care about your problems (trust me I know you are just call 100th). The poor people no doubt having some superviser shouting in their ears about targets/incentives.
Awwww ‘me’ I feel the same 🙁 . Everytime I see those birds, or watch my cat who sits there and does what he wants for free, I am jelous.
I know what I want to do, I just have to work which I hate. I would give anything to go on family outings, sit and relax and write.
Yet I have to waste hours of my time, sitting at a desk, doing/learning things I could not care less about.
Life is such a bitch, how do you tame her?
endless dreamer the answer is simple i dream 🙂 and no one can stop us from doing that or when my manager at work is getting me down i imagine in my head what it would be like to just go crazy one day and give em all the middle finger….
sigh…
but i guess am fortunate am still young got money in the bank so guess i can afford to drop out of my job when i want and thats what keeps me going i never stay in the same place more then a year
hats off to all you including dreamer to put up wih peoples crap especially in a sales environment… i guess all of us are not used to takin orders thats the part that causes us to rebell within but love knowing am not alone 😛
Endless Dreamer! My God, YOU ARE ONLY 19?!?!?! Child, child! Is there NO ONE who would help you to “bump up” your education, even if it’s just to a two year degree? Your quality of life could be immensely improved, please believe me. Any chance that your company would pay for it, or are companies still doing that?
My old company I was downsized from PAID FOR my two year degree, as long as I got the grades. It took me almost 5 years of going to school at night and working of the day. It made a day-and-night difference in my life. It was SO worth it. Sure, they screwed me over later, but I had a heck of a nice career for a number of years.
I’m telling you Dreamer, people will treat you much better when you get out of the socio economic class you are in.
You don’t seem to have much of a vision for anything your want to do, but you know what, I didn’t either. I really didn’t want to follow what the company prescribed for me to do. It was in engineering, and math was my worst subject, but I mastered it. It really gave me a lot of confidence. It was worth it, if that’s ALL it did for me. You can’t go wrong getting an education, it is like money in the back, you will never be sorry.
Maybe you could help yourself?
I can’t tell you that you would be free… but you’d be a hell of a lot freer than you are now.
hi.i love you all.what you said made me relaxed.i couldnt believe that there are some people like me still on the earth.i hate workin.i wanna enjoy my life.i dont wanna work.please help me.i hate working.i hate workin.i hate workin!!!
It’s funny (not) that we are on this earth for what probably amounts to less than a nano second (in the big scheme of things), but we spend most of that time staring at a computer, or looking out of the window, waiting for 5:30.
I am doing my best to break out of this life as I write this. I don’t know how much longer I can last…
Work work work. That’s all it comes down to. And bills are so high they take all your money at the end of the month and you’re left with nothing. The only enjoyment I get is that I have a 2 day weekend. Can you imagine? It sucks. And I don’t have enough money to do anything on those 2 days because it’s all gone on mortgage and bills. Why the f–k are we even put on this planet. Yes there are people out there who love to work and I wish I was one of them but I’m not. Then if you want to work for yourself you can’t because the government makes it next to impossible to do. You need money to start a business but you still need money to pay the bill sin the meantime. But the bills are so high that you can’t afford to start your business. Then there’s government grants but you make too much money at your job so they won’t give you one. So you think of quitting so that you can get the grant but then you have no money to pay the bills etc etc. Life f–king sukcs!
Not to mention you have to pay self employment tax and look for your own health insurance (which a lot of people have to do that aren’t selfemployed anyways) when you work for yourself. Then you have to work your ass off to get your business off the ground and be lucky if it doesn’t bankrupt you in the first two years. And like you said Jessie, takes money to get started, which most of us don’t have to spare. I make a measily 18000 a year (only working 20 hours a week though) and I end up oweing a s–t load of taxes at the end of the year. Wow, I didn’t know 18k a year was soo much money that you have to jack 10% of that out me at the end of the year. No one makin under 30K should even have to pay taxes. Don’t get me wrong, I like living in the US probably more than I would in most countries, but damn it pisses me off a lot.
Yeah kathy I do know what I want to do. It’s going to e hard studying and working al day, but I am only part -time now. So that gives me enough time to do the hings I want, I do not plan to stay in this kind of job forever.
You must be kidding lol. I learnt along time ago we can’t plan are future all t once, what we CAN do though is develop it.
I am in a much better position than Iwas a while ago. I have enough money to live if I lose my job, I could myself lucky. I am not poor, so I cannot complain.
I was happy I found out what I really anted to do. So now I will just work on that, trying to work aswell.
That is what everyoe should do, it’s not easy. Since you don’t know straight off what you want to be. Just think what makes you happy, I enjoy doing lots of thing. So I am mor ehappy working part time to enjoy them.
You know what people I plan to build a home in the wilderness. Where they d not try and tax me for evething, live free. Whowats to join my cabin?
I hope people can read that, sorry for the typo’s xD.
Am writing at work :(, ironic.
Well count me in…..i rather be farming and working with chickens and goats all day rather then my work colleagues……atleast it will be more engaging and more productive to put it in a work tone 😛
I agree, thats one for the wilderness. It’s going to be a big cabin. 🙂
Live of the land like nature intented. I laugh at the fact we judged the native people of the land for this, yet we are worse off than them.
Lets go back to hunting, hearding sheep and gardening.
If we all get together and run for the forest they can’t tax us.
I can just picture all the office staff running after us ‘hey what about the customers! the incentives we have to selll selll!’. Be so nice to throw raw mud at them 😛
Goats and gardening sounds good to me, LOL. I think I’d have a lot more satisfaction.
How about noisy chickens? Oh wait, must be used to that after working in an office enviroment.
There is only one “chicken” here, and wouldn’t you know, she has the cubicle right next to mine. Her voice is very penetrating, I have tried putting earplugs in my ears and then putting a headset on my head with loud music playing, and I could still hear her.
She goes around to each cubicle and tells the same stories over two or three times…. and then she moves on to the next cubicle and tells those same stories again.
I have no privacy for a phone conversation, and even if I did, I still couldn’t hear myself think.
I have to go down the hall and TRY to find an empty office when I really need to make a confidential call to anywhere. It is the pits not to be able to do business when you really need to.
you know seriously i bet we would make a great farming team with all the experts from all the different work environments coming together as one community to live of the land ‘we just cant fail hehehe’ plus it will be all organic yummy …also kathy why dont you just pretend your work colleague is a chicken it would bring a smile to your face knowing that it is in a chickens nature to be noisy with an attitude problem… 🙂
I agree, they are all noisy chickens. For real, now I really want to go and live in the wild. 🙁
No deadlines, no people telling you what to do, no taxing.
Anyone think heaven?
It is reassuring for me to know so many others realize just how much work sucks. Like I always say – there’s a reason it’s called WORK and not FUN. I’ve been in many jobs in different fields, but have never found any work satisfying or meaningful or something that makes me excited to get up in the morning. All work is merely tolerable.
And for those of you who say you’d rather stay in school, I can’t disagree more. For me, school was even worse than work.
This is just how life is in the modern age. And most of us have little choice but to accept it. Either that or start a revolution of some sort.
Since we HAVE to work, I try to look at the bright side. Those of us who have a decent-paying job are at least better off than so many others who are struggling to make ends meet or are unable to find employment at all. So, if I can offer any advice here, I’d say find some kind of work that you can at least tolerate and that pays well. You will at least have a roof over your head and can feed yourself and your family. Other than that, find some hobby that you’re passionate about. And try as hard as you can to make a decent living from it. There’s really no other choice in this life.
I agee there are alot of peple who are worse off. Still, I would be more than happy then for my taxes and charges, to go to them.
That is the problem. We work for money grabbing people, who do not want to help anyone.
Like I work for a bank, I deal with the people in debt. It’s not nice, all my bosses tell me to do is ‘get more money off them’. Yeah since thee peope have ALL the money in the world to spare
Some are just lazy and let others work. I agree with school bit though, school was a useless piece of crap.
I thought I was alone in my day to day torment, reading this site is the only thing that makes me cope.
I hate working , i leave the house at 8:30 am and am gone until almost 7pm. WTF! Why are we so enslaved in our jobs, working all the time , its endles and I hate it and I need relief.
I don’t hate work, i hate jobs, and being told when to get up in the morning, you have to be there at an exact time on the dot, and being directed by others for a company you or me didnt build and really dont give a rats about …
Not to mention doing work, that you could not give less of a crap about. Taking orders from people you hate.
My idea of hell, I still have to do it too. 🙁
In the UK it is so much harder. Since there are not enough jobs, not to mention everything is soo damn expensive.
It makes it hard for people to get by.
I think the reason that school doesn’t help much nowadays is, they’ve outsourced most of the jobs to other countries. All the decent jobs have gone bye-bye. There really is no incentive to get an education, because there is nothing for you to go to, once you’ve got one.
Where I live, the only decent jobs are in nursing or driving a truck. Even the community colleges don’t offer a meaningful education anymore. You can get training as a massage therapist or in equine somethingorother, I guess in taking care of horses. How bullschit is that???
I think the younger generation will never know what it is like to have an interesting, challenging job that pays a good wage. I feel so sorry for them, I think they got the schit end of the stick in all this.
The solution is death.
Yep Kathy, that is how it is.
As I said I worked with lots of graduates, some of these people were very smart. As in they should not be in an office with me, getting paid minimum per hour.
It’s true though, they said there were just ‘no good jobs’. Unless you moved country, see a science degree would get you nowhere.
Besides alot of the jobs are nurses, you don’t need a science degree for it.
We do not even have nice animal jobs, which is more what I want. It’s just either company work, nurse work, or shop work.
So really they should stop the bull in schools, that you will not be ‘whatever you want to be’. Maybe show them where they can get the work first. Since we go through all that education, what can we get at the end?
I know because most of my friends went off to uni to do media. Yet I knew after 3 years, it’s going to be hell trying to find a job. Most of my friends had no idea what they wanted from it.
That is the problem we are having.
“…they should stop the bull in schools, that you will not be ‘whatever you want to be’.”
I could hug you for saying that. I think you are the FIRST person who has ever expressed exactly what I have thought for a long time.
Yes, I think it is dishonest and a kind of mental cruelty to tell kids that, because only a very small percentage of them will ever do that. When they fail to dance on rainbows like they were told they could do, they will feel like the hugest failure.
I am so sick of my boss treating me like a 5yo. I was hired for my expertise and I am degraded. She is such a control freak. On one hand she tells me to take on the leadership role of a project and then she questions me and nags me all the time about it. There is no incentive for me to do well as she will just 2nd guess me anyway. I actually got so mad earlier today, I just walked out of the office and took a long walk. I just couldn’t cool down…… I agree with previous post, we were not made to work 9 to 5, 5 days a week in cubicles.
On the other hand, TG I have a job and can pay my mortgage. With the economy doing so bad, I guess I just need to s-ck it up.
I HATE WORK! Never thought id run into a website that has so people that feel exactly the way I do. Whats even funnier is we all seem to have office jobs. i hate the people i work with, the job overall isnt bad but what a waste of my time and life. its 100% meaningless. Wish I could just get out of this cycle of garbage. In no way, shape, or form will I let myself do this for the next 20 – 40 years of my life. 40+ hour work weeks, corporate training, team player is all garbage. Thanks for the 2 days off to mabe do my laundry and pay my bills before doing it all again.. then wonder why some people just lose it….. Hrmmmmm dunno!
Kathy, I think I just found our new career goal .:)
Lets go talk to kids and make them aware of the crap they will face when they grow up.
When I was at school, it was a constant nag about how I ‘must pick a career for the future’, never mind how I would get there.
They always told me if I don’t pick a dream job for when I am old, I will turn out a no hoper – a failture.
Yet it was that crap that got be all side tracked in the first place. It’s all well telling kids they can pick their dream job, just how are you going to make sure they get it?
My brother is only 13 and they have started it on him early, I think it’s just horrible.
At that age we have no idea about the future, things ALWAYS change. I never had one career goal in mind, I was good at lots of things.
Look at the people who have gained success without education in that field. Einstein, Bill gates, even Walt Disney said he could not draw to save his life, yet look what he achieved.
Yet thats a small percentage of lucky people, which is just the same as the amount who in a class of 30 will get their dream job.
Ecclesiastes 9:11 “I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favour to men of skill; but time and chance happeneth to them all.”
Wow….that was deep Kathy, that is an awsome quote, we should all think like that. ;(
I’m so glad people think the same way. I always think I’m the only one who hates work whereas everyone else puts up with it and do it. But no there are people who hate work too. I went to college and dreamt of the day when I left because I’d find a job I’d enjoy and thats it till 65. Doing a job I enjoy = Good happy life. WRONG there is no such thing, I’m no longer ignorant. School and college were brilliant compared to work. It wasnt hard, no real stress and mainly having fun with friends was school. Work is dam stressfull no matter if job is high or low skilled and most managers are twats and treat you with no respect. No wage ever makes up for the time at work and the hours before work you dread. I’m only ever happy friday nights and saturdays. Sunday all I think about is an early night for f–kING work. But the wierd thing is for me is that work isnt that bad whilst your there, yeh as said stressful etc but you still manage to do it somehow. Its the dread of that pressure before work that weighs you down and you think there is no way you can handle it. I’m also sick of people saying ‘you people are lazy and stupid’ because we are complaining. You can be very intelligent and hate work. I consider myself relatively intelligent and maybe a touch lazy and I bet most people fit this criteria but its the psychological element of work that tests people not their intelligence and ability so people who call us ignorant, you’re the ones who are dam ignorant for portraying us a lazy, we hate the pychological damage of work, its not that we cant get out of bed you tw*ts. I’m new to the world of work and this hatred may stem from inexperience but that will only be surpassed by hatred of endless repetition so it doesnt matter, work is s–t but it has to be done unfortunately. Being self employed seems the best thing. Being you own boss appeals to me. My dad is self employed and he doesnt seem overly stressed and he on good money and has plenty of time off and has a relatively good life, and does enough to have a comfortable life. f–k ambition for greater wealth, in the end your life and friends and family is greater then any amounts of money. So cus my dad has time off instead of making more money which he could, don’t disrespect, I admire him for that. He spends time with his family etc instead which is more important. Wow this long, I’m going to end on a cliche. WORK SUCKS!!!!
Self employed isnt really the answer either, it depends on the occupation, you can start your own business but you’ll find the demand of customers and your staff overbearing and often its more stressful trying to keep a business up and running, for instance if you screw up a project for a client that’s due within 5 days and you;ve wasted materials and you dont make any money at all but you still have to provide the end product, this is very common in certain fields especialy if you’ve convinced your family and invested so much finances into it, a job you can just walk out of anytime and your not running the company so its actually less stressful working for a company then it is running one, unless you are lucky and really plan it out well, get quality training before you start ..
I’m glad I’m not the only one who thinks live should be lived the way you want. I cannot stand work. Any work.
I want to do what I want to do when I want to do it and not be bound by rules and obligations. I know however that is not realistic. I can’t make it through life without money.
To most my job may actually seem pretty good (computer technician). And it probably would be if my boss was more understanding. He’s a know it all type. I work in an office supporting the users who have computer problems. I actually enjoy that part of it. I enjoy fixing the problems because it makes me feel good. The problem comes from the fact that I’m the youngest person working in the office (23). Everyone else is at least 10+ years older than me so they treat me as a kid. I admit I don’t know much about business as I’m just entering a career but I don’t get any respect at all.
I’m not sure how I can do this for another 43 years. I’ve been there a year now and I’m losing my mind. The only thing getting me through is the fact that I have the weekend but it slips by faster and faster. If I had the willpower I’d remove myself from this world. Alas, I don’t. I’ll just have to keep going to work as I fall farther towards insanity.
I have called my workplace Azkaban ( from the Harry Potter Novels) and our management are the Dementors. We are not allowed to use the Internet at work even on breaks. Our job is dealing with the after effects of peoples relationships breaking up but we are told to treat cases as if we were working at a machine in a factory, you are criticised and marked down if you try and bring a little humanity into our clients cases ( our managers call them customers…. WHY? what the f–k are they buying from us? ). I don’t really dislike the people I work with but how can you work with the detritus of peoples lives and isolate yourself, my attitude is f–k the rules I want to help these people and yet I am beefed at for being one of the worst staff on our team, if thats the case how come I’m the only one who has got 3 letters in the last month from clients who thank me because I’m the first person who has done anything to make thing happen for them.
We know all work sucks, but one of our main missions in life should be to find what work sucks the least. For me, working is better than being homeless out on the streets. Working an office job beats working in a department store or factory. Working at home beats having to work in an office building. That’s not saying much, but it’s a start at least.
We only have four or five decent looking girls in our office- that’s it. The rest weigh at least 225 lbs. Cube life is absolutely the pits. I really feel like Peter Gibbons in Office Space. Why must we bow to the almighty “green piece of tree bark” (money)?
You really only have two realistic choices in life. You either work for the rest of it until you die or you die now and spare yourself from the work. Since I will have to work until I die I really see no reason to work to live.
Half of the people I work with, I wouldn’t even breath the same air as if I was not there, I wouldn’t go near them if they were the last morons on earth and yet you are forced to spend so much time with them to survive, waiting for a weekend that comes and goes quicker than a horny virgins first time. I say f–k it all. f–k IT.
I used to work for a petroleum refinery, but I was downsized in 1997. The only fulltime job I could find in this area anywhere near my job skills was in a federal job as a map maker.
It is the horror of my life.
I don’t use a tenth of my knowledge and job skills. Instead of working with a group of knowledgable people, I am a standalone here. There is nobody to consult with. There is nobody to learn from. There is not even anyone who knows what the heck I am doing. I pretty much run my own show, and I hate it.
I used to have six weeks of vacation (I was there 23 years), and I really needed it, I thought.
I despise the way they parcel out your vacation (they call it “leave”– as if you need to beg their permission for something that is given to you). They allot you so many hours per pay period. In my old job, as of January 1, you had your full vacation time. It was up to you how you used it. If you wanted to burn through all of it by Valentine’s Day, that was your business.
I have not had a full week’s vacation in the eight years I have been here. I am sooooooooooooo tired. I am grateful to have a job, but sheeesh!!!! this place sucks out loud.
Yes it’s me again, already.
do you realize that I’ve been in the workforce since 1973???
Do you know how HORRIBLY tired I am of it?
I had an almost uncontrollable fantasy of just walking out of the building about ten minutes ago. And never coming back.
I must say that I am in the same predicament as many of you. I’m in the “office” world of BS. I have a supervisor that is out to get me. I can’t stand it. I feel like I am becoming a mindless boob everyday. I’m just not the type to take orders from incompetent asses, but until I get out of my hell-hole situation, I suppose I don’t have a choice. I surmise this is life, sucking it up and dealing with it. Damn that is sooo hard to do!
I’m gonna put up with this not more then 10 years. I hope i die from a heartattack before my 40, that’s why i hardly exercise and my cholestorol is through the roof. I always sabotage my jobs so they fire me and i end up on welfare..hehehe. The welfare in my country is pretty good, almost a real paycheck.
To that girl who said suicide is not the answer because of “God”…oh please, God was invented to keep you suckers under control and suicide a sin so production rates don’t decrease. Society does not care if you live, they only want to suck you dry.
Claudia was right..Existing is just WRONG(in these times def)
Well i don’t care, Death can’t come soon enough.
Peace
I’m 18 years old and i’ve had 2 jobs, both of them suck so bad, the first one i quit after working 3 days, and my current job i feel like quitting but i can’t because my family needs money. they say children are more pure and kinder than adults….look at what we have to go thorough?? they pressure us so much, they don’t care how hard it is all they want is our time, then after we work most of the money we make still goes back to the f–king government. work sucks. my hours are ok though, i work m-f from 4:30pm to 10:30pm, but then i have to get 2 buses and a light rail train to get home
Oh my f–k am i happy i found this site. Let me please begin by saying working for a living doing s–t ass work is a joke. I have a bachelor’s degree, finished top of my class, and can’t find dick for work. My only opportunities are to sit in a cubicle with an oversized chair….why are the chairs oversized? It’s meant for your fat ass to grow into it when your stuck sitting a minimum of 8 hours a day. Humans aren’t meant to sit all day, they aren’t meant to do repetitive typing, and they sure the f–k aren’t meant to live their lives without a purpose. I am so happy so many people have the same view on this as I do. People sleep approx. 8 hours, get ready for work for an hour or two, drive home from work and freshen up, sit there and think about their stupid ass work, and how many hours does that leave you with? I don’t want this posting to come off as depressed because I can’t stop laughing at the posts on this site, it cheers me up and it inspires me to give a big f–k you to my boss. Oh I almost forgot, for all the ppl coming on here saying ppl that don’t like to work s–t ass jobs are “whining” and “need to get over it.” I have a special little section for you.
Is it that your life is so boring that you enjoy working or is it that you actually found something meaningful that makes you enjoy work? I think for many of you if you really thought about it, you probably hate the work you do as well. It’s not about whining, almost everyone on here seems like, although they hate the work they are doing, they are holding down a steady job. There is a difference between giving up and “whining” and understanding there is a problem with how or society is structured. If work is dominating your life, you are not living. You are going to wake up one day and wonder what the f–k happened to your life and bathe in your s–t smelling regrets for your final years. f–k work, it is forced upon people, and even though I don’t have a solution for it I understand the situation is f–ked : ) I love this site
am quitting my job next week tuesday been slugging it out for a year but i want some time to myself now and my family….i dont want the time that i have to slip away before me so am going to make the most of it before i find another dead end job where i will most likely be filing, tyrping and sitting endlessly on the same desk and room day in and day out….reminds me of prison time to get out while i can
Paranormal you just gave work the best description lol, way to use Harry Potter.
Is it just me or des every place I work in have to have ome mean bastard in it?
Like I cannot work in one place without having that ‘person’, the one who makes work suck more.
There always has to be one to make me feel stupid……………DAMN WORK!
Everytime I just count the hours that tick away like no one’s buisness.
I am soo glad for this site aswell, don’t lose hope people!.
We have this place at least, if you are bored at work and want to stick your pen in your eyeball than come on here.
It should be named ‘work stress release’ for we can all share our stress.
hey endless dreamer your spot on with the ‘mean bastards’ or ‘know it all b***hs’ and yes they are everywhere and yes even i am made to feel stupid on the smallest points arhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh 🙂 that does kinda de stress you……
Hi all Yes I really hate work too, I drop into and out of depression on a regular basis but not sure that medication will help. You need to change your mind set. If you really want not to work – think of prisoners trapped in their cells they take work to relieve the boredom.
We live in a world where we are the top predator nothing can touch us as a species so we dont understand the struggle of living. Look at the birds they jump at the slightest sound and are constantly alert when in the open. How many of you are even aware of the clouds when you walk down the street.
Read Stephen Covey “the 7 habits of successful people” – it could change your life if you read it right – it is not a gimick I read it and all he says is true.
I wish I was good enough to do the work I enjoy rather than work that is required and thus gets money for. There are people who cant afford food never mind an internet computer.
always remember that
I hate: doing work, thinking about work, going and traveling to work, the low pay from work, the location of work, the people at work, the obligation to do work, the bosses at work, the inconvienient times work takes place in, talking about work, the word “work”, working, and any job whatsoever. I feel that I go to jail every day when going to work, but i didnt do anything wrong. Perhaps we’re all in Hell.
Job for money = Hell
In fact thats the difference between job and career. The career is something you WANT to do – or work towards, where as ‘job’ is just something you are forced to do.
Glad I was not alone in the bastards at work thing ‘me’. 🙂 It’s bad enough being stuck in one place for hours, then to have people like that around AHHH.
It’s hard to believe we are the species who built the worlds tallest buildings, now we are reduced to zombies.
I love how we sit there saying we are soo much smarter than animals when they live better than us. They do whats needed to survive, we just build this system to slave for.
I have just had to increase my hours AGAIN (although I will never increase my days again), I need the money.
Yet t’s the most stupid thing ever, I work all day yet get lno more money than had before. Since everytime I do more hours they just tax more, which means I am back to square one.
This has to change I am soo sick of this.
My kid is almost 2 and I feel I hardly have enen spent any time with him because of work. I feel like it will continue going on that way, and he’ll be 18, and i’ll wonder where all that time went. Oh wait, it was work.
I gave in my resignation and boy does it feel guuuuudddddddddddddddddd am going to make the most of my time now with family, doing some reading and time just for myself 🙂
am sure i will be back here moaning about new job when i get one…..’denmon’ your comment really made me sad i just remembered my dad he passed away while i was at work and didnt even get a chance to say goodbye
endless dreamer you just keep on stashing that cash and like me hope for an early retirement 😉
WORK SUCKS …SUCKS….SUCKS…..:)
” You are going to wake up one day and wonder what the f–k happened to your life and bathe in your s–t smelling regrets for your final years. ”
Well, yes.
I am there now.
But what could I have done differently?? I ask you. You need one of three things to propel you into a better situation: a superior education, an acquaintance in high places, or a stroke of good fortune. I didn’t have enough of any of the three to help me.
“Is it just me or does every place I work in have to have some mean bastard in it?”
This is an immutable law of the world of work. Yes, your perceptions ARE correct.
Would you believe an old man told me the same thing when i was a young employee? He said every place always has such a person. I was afraid to believe him, but after 33 years of observation, I have never found it to be different.
Sometimes though, you will have the joy of knowing a person who is just the opposite.
Finally someone says how they really feel. You get so much judgement from others when you say you don’t like work. However these people should realise that one man’s pleasure is another mans poison i.e some people like work and some hate it. I happen to hate it just like I happen to hate certain foods or tv shows or whatever. Thank the lord for this site, I thought that no one else felt this way
I hate working full time. I would love to stay home with my kids but my husband doesn’t make near enough to keep us going…..put it this way, if he lost his job – no biggie. I make plenty enough for everything. If he lost his job – we’re screwed and will lose everything. I mean he doesn’t even make enough to over the daycare or gas to get him to his loser job and he won’t quit because he is one of those people who actually LOVES to work. I hate it. I know I’m going to have a nervous breakdown because there’s no way I can continue like this for the next 25 years. I can’t even stand looking at him any more because if he actually made an effort and did something else (he takes jobs that pay him less and less) I wouldn’t have to do this s–t. When I tell him he’s like “Oh well. It’s something you have to do”. Duck you asshole…..if you were any kind of man you’d be out there trying to support your family instead of taking from it. It cost s ME several hundred dollars a month just so he can go to work. We are getting further and further into debt because of it and he doesn’t care. I wish I could live my life like that with no worries. I can’t stand working. I should have married someone more successful.
Correction if I lost MY job we’re screwed and will lose everything.
Was it always this s–tty? Why are so many jobs full of selfish, arrogant bureaucrats these days? I don’t mind working at all – it’s the people I hate. No matter what field you’re in it’s all the same bulls–t. People are so conceited at work. Money turns people into pricks. And now more than ever people suck.
and the individuals that suck the most are typically those in the “higher-up” positions, such as an administration or human resources. f–k the work world… it is full of bureaucracies and corruption!
you red tape dick suckers make me f–king sick!
I know what you mean Jessie, my idiot dad just got us in debt. He decides not to do proper work, so we all have to chip in to pay off the debt.
Lady at work asked me why I do less days, she said ‘I mean what do you do in your spare time?’, Like why would you not want to work sort of thing. I was just like hey that might be your thing, but I have a life outside of work.
She has this warped idea that when your young you should spend all time slaving at work, then have a break when you have kids. Get with the times lady! I am not ruining all my young years working 24/7. I have already done that for 3 years now! since I was 16. I even did dreaded over-time, so it worked out at 6 days a week.
They can piss off if they think I’m doing it, again. I am cutting my days down.
I only have 35 years left of mundane repetitive existance untill I retire. Wow, there’s something to look forward to. When i’m old and can’t do s–t I can have my life back. Well not really, cause I’ll probably be a broke ol bastard that has to sit in his house watching reality tv and games shows all day cause I have no damn money to go on all those vacations I never had!
I work out and exercise a lot becuase I like to do it, but if it makes me live longer I should just stop it now and drink myself to death, because I sure as hell don’t wanna live longer just so I can work longer.
And no i’m not a lazy person. I just don’t like working my life away and still have no money. If you should work you life away, you should at least be getting rich from it.
And I hate stupid people telling me something I already know how to do that I done a million times and can do it a million times better than them. It’s always the dumbest people that try telling others what to do all the time just try to make themselves feel important. Don’t let me see some of these coworkers in a dark alley…
Omg i cant beleive ive found a site full of people as unhappy with their jobs as i am…i so pleased!! not that everyone is unhappy, just that im not alone (not that i thought i was) im currently bored to tears in a s–tty job were i seem to be the only one stressing and worrying about deadlines whilest everyone above and around me let all the work fall around their ears and then blame someone else when the s–t hits the fan!
This morning i actually wished id had the guts to find a medium sized set of concrete stairs to throw my self down… or a semi fast car to throw myself infront of…. not to kill myself… i love my outside life…. but to injure myself enough to secure at LEAST 6 weeks off work! However winning the lottery would be ideal and mean possible self harm wasnt nessecary!
Im only a receptionist, not a difficult job in the slightest.. but when im not bored im rushed off my feet…. dont get me wrong i love being busy when the days fly by but when your THAT busy you wish you had an extra hour left in your work day because people have given you unrealistic deadlines its not good! like…. photocopy this 3inch thick folder 6 times for me and it must be out in the post TODAY!! and this is at 3 in the arvo and the post goes at 4! 4 oclock come… of dont worry about it now its not important *ears steam, hair rips out, scream until blue*
Being taken for granted isnt that much fun, and having to increase my work hours because ends arent meeting seems absolute madness!! Id rather be poor!!
Im very glad ive found this site!! i now feel like im not alone! 🙂 life is definately too short!
I HATE MY JOB. well the job would actually be okay if i didn’t work with such lowlife non-english talking bunch of freshies with dirty, sick, twisted minds.
never EVER work in a fast food restuarant if there are more than 5 south asians working there because i guarantee they will be inappriopiately rude faggots. i hate my job so much it hasn’t even been 7 days, is life really this bad that i have to do this job to survive!?!?!
save me before i slap my fellow workers!
“Was it always this s–tty?”
Eh, Jake, the answer is yes and no. It was just a different flavor of s–tty thirty years ago.
Working how we Americans do sucks, I don’t mind working, it gives purpose to many lives who probably wouldn’t have one! I think that the work week shouldn’t be standard at 40hrs…It should be 32 hrs. 4 days on, 3 days off. Same pay or more! Hmmm…maybe I”ll just look for a job with the perks…I will!
Oh wait, do 32 hour week jobs ever come with benefits? I guess I’m stuck…
I am thankful though don’t get me wrong, I’m thankful, I have a job so I can feed myself for now…I’m thankful I can pay my rent and car note…for now.
(get another job!)
Yeah, I’m looking I’m looking…
A job hopper? No? Me? Oh, I have to stay where I don’t want to so that when I go to apply for another job, they won’t disgard me as a job hopper? Thanks for the tip!
Anyone who claims to not enjoy working or that people should be grateful just to have a job–kindly shut your face. Work sucks and we all know it. If the world were able to run reasonably well while everyone just sat on the beach, ate, had sex, and played video games, we’d all be happy bastards.
I wish I could pack my wife and kid up in a RV and cruise the country, living the good life.
It’s the routine I hate- just hit the replay button 5 times every week. Nothing changes. Remember being in grade school- when the school year seemed like it took a lifetime. That’s because we never really were in a set routine..now its like 9 months goes by in what seems like 9 weeks.
I am 23 and have been working full time for about a year now. I feel depressed thinking about work. I remember my first 4 months, I used to LOVE the weekends and especially Friday because I was looking forward to the weekends. I also started to love Thursday more because it helped me look forward to looking forward to Saturday on Friday. (if that makes any sense). Sunday afternoon starts to make me feel sad though. Just thinking about Monday morning ruins my Sunday afternoons. But those were the feelings I had during my first 4 months working. But since then, slowly and surely, I have started to feel sad on Saturday Nights because I am dreading the feeling I will have on Sunday afternoon. and then cycle continues again and I am not even excited about Fridays anymore. On Fridays I would already feel sad just thinking about Monday. I am starting to ask myself, “Am in in a depressed state of mind?”, “What’s the point of doing this? this is not life”, “Why the hell am I sounding so emo?” “Stop thinking and things will get better.” Well things are still the same and as I look back, I can’t believe its already been a year since I’ve started full time working. Before I know it, I will look back and realize that I’ve been working for 30+ years. I know that life is too short to be worrying and stressing about the mundane Mondays-Fridays. I need to enjoy life and enjoy the people I work with. It’s a chance to get to build lasting relationships with your co-workers, even though I probably would have ever associated myself with them in the outside world. I would like to believe that I was put in this situation for a reason. Make the most of it. I’m trying hard to do that, but I keep getting sucked into this feeling of hopelessness and self pity for this endless cycle called adult life. I need some Jesus again to give me hope for better days.
I hate work!!!! I work with a bunch of lazy, stupid, backstabbing, manipulative bitches and its driving me slowly mad…..and i hate the journey to and from work too…..one day, if i don’t leave, i may go bonkers and strangle someone….
I would take death over work any day.
I waitress and they schedule me every single weekend night. I dont get out until 1230-1. I never get to go out and I tell them to stop scheduling me every single weekend…. basically this summer has been so s–tty. I never so anything but work. 🙁
Never Enough-
the real world sucks doesn’t it-i wish i could go back to college- no responsibilty.. no 8-5 life..i feel exactly like you do on sunday nights..but at least we’ll have football soon :-).
I hate work, the same pointless repition everyday. Life is for enjoying, we retire at 65 and then your so f–ked up and jacked up from working your life away your insane pissing your pants! Whats the sense in that? I was thinking to a solution to this madness and I thought of it!!! Why can’t every person spare say just an hour of their lives for two or three days a week like on a rotating shift basis and adjust the economy to suit! Why not? Who makes money man does, who taxes it man does, who makes up the crap rules man does, so why can’t man change it?
Even, better sod money, sod technology and every family just live off the land, growing and trading theire own produce. Think about it better food without chemicals and drugs in, therefore less chance of cancer and diabietes and s–t! Also virtually no pollution, no stress so less sickness a better community spirit. We have gone wrong some how! Those PRIMATIVE tribes have NO heart disease,cancer and obesity. They have NO rape and muggings and theft they have NO money so they have NO motivation for greed….we’re the ones who are primative…
Dude, I went to school for 8 years, got my PhD…thinking that once I got out of school things would mellow out and I could begin enjoying my life, instead of stuyding 24/7. Now I’m wishing I was back in school. Indeed, work SUCKS!
Hi my name is Mark and I hate work. I feel like getting a gun and killing myself, I am 20 years old and I don’t do this for the rest of my life, so screw it SCREW IT ALL.
I WANNA GET A GUN AND END IT, WHY WORK 40+ YEARS OF YOUR LIFE. It is like we are in a rat cage and can’t escape this horrible day to day bulls–t, being told off bu the boss then punching him in the head.
When I get my hands on a gun I am going to do it, and I am not saying this to get attention, i guess we are all in the same boat.
Why do this CRAP FOR THE REST OF OUR LIVES WHAT IS THE POINT OF IT ALL SCREW THIS WORLD I WOULD RATHER DIE.
I work at a cell phone store. i see people are complaining about working 9-5.. i work 8am to 8 pm. monday thru saturday.. what a life huh? get paid cash so im not complaining. the money i get is enough to save up to one day buy my own store.. but still dont htink it’s worth the hours i work. I hate working… and at least people work in cubicles with educated people.. i work with a self-centered retard that doesnt even know how to pronounce the word zero right.. and plus.. im in the middle of the ghetto.. ughhh.. im so sick of working here.. im probably the only salesman ever to work with a handgun on the side..
oh snap? we can cuss in here?? lol. f–k worrk!!
Mark, I feel the same way, but I’d never do that because I have family and a few friends who I don’t want to hurt.
Jae, 12×6 days /week?? I’d go nutts.
I just took a job as a meter reader for a power company. I love the outdoors but hate HAVING to work 8hrs everday just to pay bills. That is the only reason I work..to pay my bills. My Dad just retired after 45 years of working as a Pharmacist, counting pills. I could never do that. I give him a lot of credit though. Now retired, he can’t stand not working. WTF! He says he’s bored and hates not working. I LOVE not working!! I never get bored when I’m not working. I guess some people just don’t have a creative side to them.
I saw a special on Discovery channel recently. It was about some guys who mine a certain kind of rock in a volcano. They car these rocks for miles, which weight 150+ lbs up a mountain every day just to feed their families. The guys have open sores on the shoulders from carrying these rocks for 12 miles x day. f–k THAT! I guess I have it good compared to them or those poor souls in Chinese factories working for pennies.
Still f–k WORK. I agree with the other posters about just living in the wild, farming, living off the land. I actually dream about that quite often. Or going up to Alaska to crab fish for a couple months. That’s hard work, but the danger sounds fun.
Well, I’m rambling.
Time to go to bed so I can get enough sleep for WORK. f–k!!!!!
I have become a money obsessed freak! It’s not good. It’s like now I am always worried about money, like ‘will I have enough’ etc. Not to mention it’s all in your stupid greedy banks hands, who just care about your money.
I hate it!, it’s like I work for nothing. I get all this money but never get to spend any of it on myself.
What is the point then? I wish the whole of the UK would stop working so the tax assholes would reduce their tax. Stop making us work more than we should have to.
you guys don’t know how right you all are
i too hate work we are slaves to society
and YES we all need to think outside the box
you only live once so dont be afraid to go for
what you always wanted to do in life
do it on the side make it your reality
Another thing I’ve had to do because of work is – drastically cut down on going to parties and social events. Why? Because too many people ask the same mind-numbing question: “So, what do you do? Where do you work? How’s work going?..”
How am I supposed to respond and be honest? “Work sucks as usual, as it always will. But hey, it pays the bills so I guess I’ll stick it out as long as I can tolerate it.”
Can’t people talk about things that matter?
I agree with person who said they have a two year old child and is worried about him/her growing before your eyes. I too, have a two year old and a 9 year old. I work full-time and go to school full-time, for what I don’t know anymore. It seems like a degree is not good enough anymore. Anyway, I couldn’t agree with you more that I feel like I don’t even know my two year old. The only bond we have is when we go to bed at night and he snuggles up to me. It really sucks, but that’s life at this point.
Sam
Man you are so right! I hate when people ask that- its like if they feel they are one step ahead of you if they have a “better” job- which in my case is probably the case. But so what, I don’t take govt handouts, earn my keep and have not committed murder or a felony. It just seems like people judge on what kind of job you have and/or how much $ you make. Screw them.
Sam, I agree. That’s all people ask me, how’s work. and how much do you make.
Kinda along the same lines when people say how are you? for a greeting. Just say hi! Do you really want to know how I’m doing?? I’ve actually responded honestly to that question to total strangers and they never know what to say when I reply, I’m horrible. Worst day of my life!
Sam
I hear you!! I hate when people ask that- like they think they’re better than me if they have a “better” job. Screw them. Why should we be judged on what we do for a living, or how much green in our wallet? Unless you 1) live off government handouts 2) have murdered someone or 3) committed a felony – we are all productive members of society.
I just can’t believe their are people out there who believe work is great f–king morons! Give the land back to the people!!!!!!
Sam
I hear you man. I hate when people ask that- like they think they’re better than me if they have a better “job”. Screw them. Why should we be judged on what we do for a living, or how much green in your wallet? Unless you 1) live on gov’t handouts (by choice), 2) have murdered someone or 3) committed a felony- we are all productive members of society.
I friggin hate work & the people I work with. 1 Lady is a complete rude cow, over-opinionated & snaps your head off most times she speaks to you. I have as little as possible to do with her. The other is the laziest brain-dead thing on 2 legs, who has the s–ts constantly. She comes to me complaining about not having anything to do. I have plenty to do & could give her some of it, but, she just then annoys the crap out of me constantly, doesn’t listen to anything I’ve told her, so it actually causes me more frustration and more of my time than if I just do it myself. She started out OK, but has just got more lazy daily. I have started applying for new jobs.
Would love to hear your comments 🙂
I believe as time goes by we people are going to work more and more hours.
For example a guy above me works from 8am to 8pm. I have been doing research, and most of us aren’t working from 9-5 anymore we are having to work saturdays as well.
What I’m trying to say is that my grandad never saw me grow up, becuase he was too busy with work.
HE MISSED MOST OF MY LIFE BECAUSE OF WORK. I feel really sad because of this.
Someone else posted this but here it goes again: http://deoxy.org/endwork.htm
Agree with almost all that is said in that article.
I love my job, but I hate working. I want to leave and finally go to sleep, as much I want to pursue my dream I just want to sleep and do nothing.
Seriously I hate this working life
My Dad thinks I’m lazy because I hate working. I’m probably the least lazy person I know when it comes to being active. I compete in triathlons, mountain bike, run, yadda yadda, but can not stand working. My Dad’s the opposite, he loves to work but hates doing active things like I do.
If only I could get paid to be an athlete. Nah, I’m too old and not enough raw talent.
I guess I’ll have to stick to my boring 9-5 job. :sigh:
maybe I’ll be a monk..
Haha nother Adam posted right before me. Well I didn’t mind work even though it was 12 hour shift work. But now that the week Supervisor quit and gave them 2 weeks notice AND then some guy that was gonna go back to shcool in 3 weeks took the post and advised the higher ups that they were gonna need another Supervisor. I didn’t want that f–king job but I knew they all thought I was the coming of Christ or something, there to save them all. They tell me not to worry about it, it will only be for 2 weeks, well I’m on my third week and NO information on who the next guy will be. Its an easy job, but I hate having to deal with pay problems and the likes. And sure its a 7-3 job 5 times a week now, I guess you could say nice hours but everytime theres a problem they call you at home. I got called at midnight and had to work til 3am at home to find some moron that DIDNT drink and go to work. I dont get paid for those hours either. Anyways, I just want my old patroling job and start looking for something more interesting, they lost me when it comes to favors. Never again am I ever gonna do any favors for anyone at work again.
Adam, are you a cop? If yes, how do you like aside from the position you’re in. I was Military Police in Cuba (USN) for a few years and the gig down there was cake. 12 hr shifts, but nothing ever happenend there so it was just driving around and hanging out at the station. I got accepted into the Border Patrol but haven’t decided if that’ what I want to do yet.
Let me know how you like civilian police work if that’s your job. Thanks
Fred
Got this joke in an email this morning:
Subject: FW: Funny
Recently, a large hospital hired several cannibals to increase their
diversity. ‘You are all part of our team now,’ said the Human
Resources rep during the welcoming briefing. ‘You get all the
usual
benefits and you can go to the cafeteria for something to eat,
but
please don’t eat any employees.’ The cannibals promised they
would
not.
Four weeks later their boss remarked, ‘You’re all working very
hard
and I’m satisfied with your work. We have noticed a marked
increase
in
the whole hospital’s performance. However, one of our
secretaries has
disappeared. Do any of you know what happened to her?’
The cannibals all shook their heads, ‘No.’ After the boss had
left,
the leader of the cannibals said to the others, ‘Which one of
you
idiots ate the secretary?’ A hand rose hesitantly. ‘You fool!’
the
leader continued. ‘For four weeks we’ve been eating managers and
no
one noticed anything. But NOOOooo, you had to go and eat someone
who
actually does something …’
How does anyone enjoy work? Some people act like they “love to work”. I work in a business environment and I would guess that only 3% of the population actually has a genuine interest in their jobs. They just do it because it earns them a proper paycheck and prestige. The business world is incredibly unfulfilling and void of creativity. I have the same dream of going into the country and growing my own crops and living off the land. What happened to the time when everyone did this and bartered what they created based on their skills and interests? Maybe a time like that never really existed. I hate work, I hate my job, I hate the politics. Is life really meaningful if all life is is work that we don’t want to do? It makes me really wonder what our purpose here is? I am starting to think the purpose of humans is to destroy the planet. We are at the top of the food chain, so I supposed we just prey on the planet and each other. Work blows!!!
You don’t have to cry
by Stephen Stills, Gold Hill
Performed by CSN
“In the mornin’ when you rise
Do you think of me, and how you left me cryin’?
Are you thinkin’ of telephones, and managers,
And where you got to be at noon?
You are living a reality I left years ago
It quite nearly killed me.
In the long run it will make you cry.
Make you crazy and old before your time.
And the difference between me and you.
I won’t argue right or wrong,
But I have time to cry, my baby
You don’t have to cry,
I said cry my baby, you don’t have to cry”
I think it’s almost killed most of us….
I’ts cos f our greed for money why we have problems like global warming. When the world is a ball of fire, lets see money save us!
This is my day to bitch.
This job sucks one thousand year old dinosaur s–t eggs.
Work sucks :(((((((((
Aren’t there some countries where it’s a law that they all get at least 4 weeks paid vacation/year? I’ll have to be at my s–tty job 20 years before I get that much vacation. I get 1 week now. It’s not worth it. I’m searching for answers..but can’t find any. Maybe when this life is over, I’ll find peace.
It’s true, the human body wasn’t designed for 9-5. There’s no other explanation for how horrible i feel when I wake up in the morning. Then to have to drive f*#Kng 45 mnutes in traffic to sit with my boss in such close quarters we can hear each other fart so I hold it in all day. And I pretend I’m working so hard and loving it, but I’m hating every minute of it. I fantasize about scrounging off the government and refusing to work like some people do. But then I’ll be so poor and miserable and won’t be able to buy more pot to ease the pain of life and the struggle that it is. Im 28, bored, tired, ready to RETIRE.
and the body wasn’t designed for cube life. it seems I am wasting my life away. life is too short- tomorrow is never guaranteed. those 25 people who were killed on the LA train- did they think there would be a tomorrow? absolutely. but there wasn’t. there has to be more to life- but I agree with Tim- maybe we will know in “another” life.
I truly believe that work, as we know it, is killing us. We weren’t made to do this type of mind-numbing work, in a building all day, sitting down, it’s totally bad for our bodies and our souls. It’s just a rat race with no point. ‘They’ control your life and tell you what you want: a $500 suit, a $50k car, a $499 cell phone. Crap! I can do my job better than they can do theirs, in a $10 Target t-shirt and flip flops no less! They can have their $100k salary and 60-hour no-life work weeks. I’d rather work just enough to be able to pay my bills, and have extra free time. This is something I’m getting closer and closer to achieving. We are so out of touch with what really matters. Don’t buy into all the advertising and government crap. Don’t buy into debt. Free yourselves so you can have a life! We all need to.
My personal motto: TIME is worth more to me than MONEY. Period.
I am now 50 years old and have worked for the last 32 of them. I am responsible for a group of people who manage record-keeping in a govt organisation in Australia. I soooo hate my job, though have never really have liked working, however took this job 4 years ago when the last person quit. Didn’t really want it but believed it was the right thing to do. God how I was wrong, 10 to 12 hour days, worrying about everything, as the organisation just demands more and more.
Just cant believe at my age, it is still sooo hard, surely there must be more than this. trapped by the beliefs of a society where work is suppose to be everything. I cry so much for my kids, knowing they to will end up in this rat race. The so called civilised humanity has lost its way, perhaps revolution is needed or it is time to check out.
So day begins at 5p to get ready to head out to work, shower, eat, iron my scrubs.. and hop in the car for a 45 min drive. Get to work early so I can clock in those 7 precious minutes early at 6:53p (so I can leave early), start the night get report from day shift, paitent assessment, collect supplies/ first round meds- done by 10:30p. 11p- accu checks, 2nd round meds, 1st round treatments. Done by 1am. Break 1am- 1:30p. 1:30-3:30 stacks of paperwork/entering orders etc. 3:30 start 2nd round treatments/ 3rd med pass/ finish documenting/ accu checks and any unforseen nonsense that always happens at the last possible second. By the time 6am rolls around I can sit down. Makes me tired typing it. Day shift back by 7am- give report/ count narcotics and wait to leave those 7 precious minutes early. Drive home half and hour- 45 min. Home by 8am, take shower- take motrin and fall into bed. Waking up in time to start watching the clock and stressing out about going back to that horrible place again. I get paid well as a nurse, I have job security and good benefits. But I hate it. I hate everyone there. I would do anything to find someplace I am happy and can still pay the bills, but those places dont exist do they? Ugh.
Yes, Spark_Plug, they really DO exist…. in China, Mexico, and India, to whence they were outsourced.
Work truly does suck, especially for those of us who know we’re short selling ourselves in an underpaying role with a lack of respect from the surrounding inept colleagues. Seems like a cycle of 40-50yrs of gruelling suffering so that you can hopefully spend the last 10-20 yrs in relative comfort and peace. Stuff that. Ive arranged with my fiance to buy a plot of land in the mountains and build a little straw-bale house, for $40K AUD and retire before 40. Id suggest that as a practical solution for some. We truly weren’t meant to work our lives away, but im sure its what most of us are conditioned to, reluctantly as it may be.
I’d rather be a selfish lazy coward and spend time with my loved ones than be a “hero” who works very hard and doesn’t have time to see loved ones. I would never ever do 1 more second of work if that were possible. I have always hated all work, I wish more people would admit to this instead of judging
Work is the only thing I really hate about life yet it is enough to make one not want to live it.
I wonder if it will be like this until the end of mankind itself.
I agree
Work blows, somebody save me
JOB = Just Over Broke
I hated work as well…that is why i quit my job…i now work from home…am my own boss…make my own hours…its so simple….do what i did…take control of your own life…all i did was call 800-679-7042 x 2547
we’re living a real life “Groundhog’s Day” (the movie).
I really am praying that this global money crises kicks in. so that money becomes worthless, we need to go back to how our ancestors were. We all need to have our own patch of land, living off it. We would be healthier because of the excercise and lack of stress and the greed culture would just disappear. work sucks to hell, if money is the root of all evil, then work is the soil the root is growing in.
Beerengine, I’m with ya! I secretly hope the same thing. I just want a cheap plot of land to live off of. I don’t mind hard work — getting up early, taking care of animals, gardening, etc. I just don’t want to work for someone else!
Lady j, your on my wave length! Our entire culture is based on greed! Do we really have to break our backs, just to get the latest phone? And the one you already have is good enough. Money just goes round in circles, that’s why the money crises is kicking in, it’s stop flowing!! It’s not real, it’s a system of control. Your money is held on a microchip somewhere, that’s it. Living off the land animals,gardening that’s the natural order for humans.
You know for all our technology, we are no better off.Everything is wrapped or made of plastic poisoning us. Every electronic device is irradiating us and poisoning us. All the diseases we cure come back to haunt us. and there are people literally dropping dead from work. You wouldn’t work a horse flat out for 8+ hours a day, that would be cruel, BUT ITS OK FOR HUMANS!!!!WTF FOR? We work our butts off for example buy a flat screen TV and there is jack worth watching anyway! See what I mean most of the crap we have we don’t need were being conned,how come the people who run our countries don’t do jack? Or the filthy rich? If work is so bloody brilliant them sweep the streets for 8 hours a day or work in the factory for 12+ WTF!!!
I hate work, good God man. We are only here for a short time and we spend more than half of it working. Then we retire, guess what by the time we retire were insane/senile NO BLOODY WONDER! Then we die WTF!
HATE IT!
Ever see that movie Into the Wild? … I wish I had the courage to un-hook of society’s short leash and just live.. anywhere. We go our whole lives working hard so we can retire and by that time we are too old to really live. I wish I could say that I don’t care, cut up my credit cards/id’s ..sell all the materialistic crap that clutters my life and just go. Go where-ever. I don’t want to be just a number, in a sea of numbers anymore.
I hope this entire economy comes crashing down. I hate the entire system of work for money, for survival. I’ve often thought of just becoming a hermit.
beerengine , you’re right about tv also. There isn’t s–t on worth watching, just a bunch of idiots on reality shows and retarded game shows on major networks.
Dirk, at least you can see how the wool is being pulled over our eyes. Now I see in the news the world governments have some how found billions each from no where to pump into the system to beat the credit crunch. Funny how they haven’t got money for hospitals, people dying of starvation but they can find tax payers money which we bloody sweated for to save greedy bankers/wankers which started this whole f–kin mess in the first place! Funny how they can always find tax payers cash to fight the bloody wars THEY cause and send us in to die for THEM WTF. It’s all illusion, like a house built on sand I pray it comes crashing down. They are on top of the pyramid, we are at the bottom, killing ourselves to feed them.
It’s just not right, if i go to work i feel like i sell myself out everyday. The alternative is to fight a huge battle against the powers that be. So i actually did quit my job and i’m living on welfare..like this i’m free and living in the moment. I sold my tv, most of my stuff except internet connection which comes in handy. But hey, we can die tomorrow, so atleast i’m doing what i always wanted to do…nothing.
its great your living how you want but please don’t say nothing’, its really important to continue working on your own skills and hobbies, try and make a name for yourself by working hard so you dont have to rely on being a slave to a job or welfare for too long ..
There’s nothing worse than doing nothing IMO. Just because you don’t work a regular 9-5 job, doesn’t mean you have to do nothing. What do you have passion for? Put all you have into that.
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When i meant “nothing”, i meant labor or whatever. I have hobbies, i love reading, videogames, movies, martial arts, etc etc..those are my passions. I just don’t want to work for money, the entire monetary system just gags the hell out of me and i’m pretty sure nothing will change so welfare it is.
I see what you mean now, Whywork and I agree wit you 100%.
We’re killing ourselves for “the green piece of tree bark”
work just blows
For the last two days, I have been off work sick with flu…….I love the flu!
I’m gonna start my own cult with it’s own land, and it’s own farm, with wind and solar generators for free power, and a wells for water. Everybody helps out, and no one actually “works”; but what they have to do for the small community is all, which wouldn’t be no 40 hours a week.
Nah, but that is a nice thought.
I have often said – if we all go on benifits and stop working, they will have to do SOMETHING.
The greedy tax bastards will go insane. Which would serve them right. After all we gain nothing from this credit crunch, and i’m sick of paying for lazy people to sit at home.
I want to pay for charities, hospital care, SOMETHING to make working seem worth it. Or we should all be able to sit at home, really.
I am sick of sitting there all bloody day, not getting paid for any overtime. I would love to take up all my hobbies in full.
I want to live in the wilderness and live off the land. Look at China, they get rid of all that good farm land and easy life for the WESTERN WAY. Yeah thats smart. Slave away in a tall ass building for the rest of your life.
Apart from my internet i don’t need a new phone, or TV or stereo. It’s just all worth jack s–t to me. I would rather just have a house that is MINE and i don’t have to pay for it.
I want my cash in my hand and not in some bloody bank. Where someone could steal my lifes earnings away.
words of wisdom Endless. I think we are here on Earth to help others- if I could afford not to work- and i had to something- I’d maybe go overseas and help the unfortunate. Something “IMPORTANT”. Not slaving away in corporate America.
I love to work hard and I wouldn’t mind working five days a week if I was recognized for the work that I do. I am a resident aid and I work my butt off while my co-workers piss off all day and if I say something to them asking for help they blow me off and act like bitches the rest of the day. I love what I do but I hate everyone that I work with and the worst part is I have talked to my bosses and guess what now I am the bad guy to all of the emplyees and labeled as a bitch. Well they can all screw off!!!!
work is for chumps, and so I am a chump. it is all so useless. My parents slaved away for 40+ years, and when my dad’s restaurant went down hill they lost everything, including our family home. No government bail out for us, ohhh no. Our only option was to give up our home, the one place I felt truly safe. Some rich wanker gets richer and bailed out by the tax payer while we get NOTHING in return, our money isn;t even safe in banks, WHAT IS THE POINT THEN!???!?!? Work and money has torn my family apart. Now my parents are over 60 and forced to work still, just to afford some food, I gave them all my savings but it doesn’t go far, so now I am also swimming in debt and the guilt and anxiety I have that I can’t look after my parents is literally killing me. I shall keep fighting for a better life, but I am already so tired. So so tired. The only thing working in an office has given me is a horrific panic disorder, feelings of inadequecy and really bad posture, if I ever get the chance to b a housewife I shall grab it! Working so some company makes millions while I struggle to even pay for food makes me want to vomit everywhere, I swear every time someone says the words ‘Client’ I die a little inside. I love the fact rich people get the best interest rate deals when they can afford it in the first place, and the poorer you are the more they punish you! I want to live in a forest, with animals and trees, please I cannot take being in a fish bowl all day everyday. I know I am on the verge of proper old fashioned nervous breakdown, where I will one day go out of the house wearing only my pants on my head. I don’t get how everyone copes every day when we live in a world which is quite simply a glorified slave labour society. I am only 23 and I have realised what a meaningless life we lead, and how f*cked up everything is and I have this overwhelming urge to curl up into the foetal position and never move or speak again.
I worked at a daycare because I like being around kids and it sucked balls. The first week I got sick with the flu so I took some personal days and then I still wasnt better so I took my sick days then I told them ny grandma was in the hospital one day cuz I just couldn’t bring myself to go in that day. I was there in a small room with 10 kids under the age of 2 for nine some days ten hours working for s–t for pay. so to sum it all up I ficking hated it and the month I was there I took off 10 paid days and then quit. I wonder why the hell life is so terrible I wonder why I even go on most days.
That is the most sucky thing about work…I noticed with this credit crunch. That people who spend all their life working, get jack s–te help from the goverment.
We slave away paying THEIR TAX, and what do they give us back? NOTHING!.
A crappy little pension fund when they take most of it, and give you back a lil. That is why most people move countries, unless you find a better one that is not so selfish with their system – it does not work.
Hang in their peeps! – still waiting for Jesus to come back like the bible said and fire everyone.
IneedAngerManagement: I feel a little what you say about not being able to take care of your parents. My mom’s joints are so bad from working all her life, now she is retired and don’t make s–t from soc security, and my dad ain’t much better off. So my mom is actually thinking about going back to work (part time, after she already retired!) just to make some more money, and I feel guilty like I should be better off, and be helping them out like they did for me so long while I was growing up. It’s hard to help them when I’m just barely helping myself, and no one pays s–t here. If you make 20,000 a year here it’s considered pretty good money for this lame ass city. Then get hammered with higher and higher bills, then BAM, something is wrong with you car, well wow, lets take that to get fixed for what? 2000$ ya say. Oh no big deal, let me just whip that out my fkn wallet you overpriced grease monkey. More credit card debt until the next “oops” that comes along, just when you think you’re starting to get ahead in life. One word: POINTLESS
And i’m off to work right now, and I work outside. It’s 45 degress and raining. I love it (sarcasm)
After 31 years of workslaving, I have to say it sucks ass, big time. I cannot count the number of days I have spent in an office, thinking of ways to get out. I am now a manager, so every opportunity I get, I skip off to a pretend meeting or an appointment. Human beings WERE NOT meant for this kind of crap, it is demeaning and counter productive. Some days, I would rather shovel s–t than work in a plastic fluoro office environment, where everybody is depressed and docile. What a hateful way to waste your life. If I had the ability, I would make money elsewhere, but I hate ripping people off with shoddy products, so I live off my brain power. I feel sorry for you all, I really do. My retirement probably wont happen for another twenty ferking years, and that is the most depressing thought of all. Good luck everyone, I hope you can all make something of your day(s), and don’t go completely insane. I am half tempted to run off, and live in a forest somewhere, so I don’t have to do this trash anymore.. Enuff said for now. Adios
Oh, did I mention that work f–kING SUCKS?
… and, for anyone that loves work, you can kiss my hairy ass… f–king money storing creeps.
I would also enjoy chatting to anyone from this list, you can get me @ ducati_ss at the hot mail thingybob.
One more thing, this site is brilliant, and so are the comments written by you all. It is the best laugh I have had in a long, long time. Pretty sad I know, but there you go…..
Hey Dirk I feel for you, I don’t get the point in working all our lives and then when you are supposed to retire if you haven’t squirreled away all your money by being a proper cheap ass, or become a millionaire, you are screwedd!! Retirement will be redundant by the time we get to that age (if office radiation/stress doesn’t get you first) cause if the world keeps going as it is we will live to about 100 years old on average and work till we are 95. YAY. I;m sure that is why the Government is so desperate for people to quit smoking. . I’m so sure we will all find away around this crap, I cling to this little sliver of irrational hope. Maybe when I do finally go bonkers I can sit around all day in an institution doing finger painting. i know thats an awful thing to say but I can;t help myself!! Simon I completely agree with the office thing, it is some weird torture device, invented to kill every iota of spirit/creativity, so we can all be good little drones who don’t actually have to think about anything else other than making money, mostly for other people. Today the person who irritates more than anything at work kept giggling every two minutes (yes I timed him, that is how bored I get) and I was near tears with the need to stab him in the eyes. I’m not a violent person but the office lights might as well be a full moon. lol, ah well, you gotta laugh really.
and I’d just like to say a big fat THANKS A LOT to Egg credit card for increasing my APR from a an already bloated 19.9% to a really charming 26.9%!! and why? FOR NO REASON WHATSOEVER, cause they felt like it! and the fact they want big fat bonuses probably, I actually HATE YOU. Please just admit you are loan sharks and get it out in the open. you are freakin’ awesome you greedy greedy disgusting people. Never get credit cards if you can avoid it, they are the biggest con ever and a massive slavery device. EVIL EVILLLL!!! when I pay the card off I’m going to write them a really lovely letter of pure unadulterated hatred, and also one to a few papers to hopefully put people off getting themselves in the same crap as me. rant over. I’m not really such a moody beatch, I promise. Good Luck to everyone here!
One of the ladies I work with in my jail cell…errrrrr.. cubicle…is hearing impaired. She drives us nuts when she talks to herself… today I felt like farting and running out of the cubicle, just so I could see her reaction when she smelled it..thinking if it was herself…i was cracking myself up for an hour..it was the only way to keep my sanity
IneedAngerManagement : You’re right. In order to retire wealthy most likely you’ll have to be cheap and not buy just about anything you want, which means your life will suck till 65(if you last that long, if you don’t that money is worthless anyways), and when you’re 65 you’ll have money, for what? To finally go on vacation when you got back aches and you’re probably not nearly as in good of shape as when you were younger, that’s if you’re still sane, and not lost half your braincells from drinkin most of your life to forget about your job. Not to mention you’ll be old and ugly at 65, so what’s the point of being retired, and on a beach with hot women, wearing some jacked up pants, and sunscreen on our noses. Oh yeah, and those big blu blocker sunglasses you see on tv.
And I get you on the insane asylum thing, I have often thought of just fakin crazy so I could just sit around and talk to the real crazy people. Least I won’t have to work, and maybe get some hot nurses to look at.
I kinda hope the Mayan Prophecy comes true in 2012!! Not the end of earth but a major change in the way Humans live their lives.
http://www.adishakti.org/mayan_end_times_prophecy_12-21-2012.htm
Hey IneedAngerManagement/Dirk Others,
Some valid points brought up about ageing and money. Although, it is pretty hard to not do the things you like to do, purely because the forty hour s–t in the middle is so awful. By the time Friday comes around, I am totally out of it. I am surpised that I am not: either an alcoholic, or addicted to something or other by now (mid forties). Although, I do understand why people get that way. I have an office, but quite honestly it may as well have bars on the window. My partner works with recent inmates (prison), and one of them actually said that he was glad to be going to prison, as he then wouldn’t have to turn up and do his job anymore. He felt relieved if you can believe that or not…. My opinion is that you cannot retire wealthy unless you are either: lucky, or involved in some shady activities. I have none of those things going for me, so I will be relying on relatives to feel sorry for me when they pop off, or just downsize when the kids move out (if ever). for Dirk, I agree on the 65 stuff completely. Who the hell wants to be a rich 65 year old??? dragging your pathetic body down to the beach, etc. The sunglasses line gave me a laugh. hmm, the insane asylum doesn’t sound half bad, I am sure you could fake it enough to get some time out. Who the hell wants to be anywhere near a work place? Not me.
Dirk, you hit the nail right on the head! This is what the rest odf the sheep in the world, don’t understand. They’ve been brainwashed into thinking going to work is great? Eh? You work your butt off and get paid peanuts, and then out of the sheer gratefull goodness the government let’s you retire at the age of…….65!!!!! I tell ya guys, our generation will have to slog our gut’s out until we drop down DEAD! We should be enjoying life, you wouldn’t work animals for 12 hoursd a day everyday so why do people have to do it???? Then they wonder why people drink and take drugs, it’s to drive the reality of this life out of your mind…
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Not only that – you have people living off of your money. You think half of your wages is going towards health care? Think again. It’s going to the benifit hungry lazy slobs, who as much as we would love to sit in their place, cannot afford to.
They get everything from cheap home, free pet care, free healthcare. Yet the people who work get jack s–t.It’s like an excuse for the goverment to charge us more.
EVERYONE READ THE BOOK ‘BIG BABIES: WHY DON’T WE JUST GROW UP?’ IT WILL MAKE ALOT OF SENSE TO YOU.
It is saying what you guys have been saying. That we are treated like babies, groomed to think and feel the way we do.
This work is fun, NOT!!
This site is amazing. I see it as the result of this f–ked up system we inherit. This is modern slavery! The system is a well orchestrated matrix of power. (Read the Matrix of Power by Jordan Maxwell). Slaves serving slaves serving other slaves, and so on. The American Dream is self explanatory. Its just a dream. Every person I know, regardless of their social standing, hates their life and their jobs.
But Life is beautiful and meant to be appreciated. Don’t you ever believe that life is inherently miserable. The problem is the system we are all subject to. This system is profit based, exploiting human work for personal profit.It is the redesign of a culture that has to occur, and eventually it will ! (Google ” The Venus Project). Prosperity, and progress is accomplished with work, NOT MONEY. Money is an illusion. And work does not suck, work is constructive and creates prosperity. Working towards something valuable and beneficial for a community is what makes “work” valuable and worthwhile. As long as we work for profit, we will always take advantage of others. That is the truth.
“The truth is not told, it is only realized.”
Peter Joseph. Producer of Zeitgeist films.
P.S Watch Zeitgeist 2. It offer an in depth explanation of the monetary system that reigns this country, and the world.
OH, I forgot. To all those that mention that”.. America would be like Africa if we didn’t have to work.”, that is completely biased !! Third world countries are slave nations themselves. They work to pay off foreign debt. I mean c’mon guys, who the f–k would be lazy enough to starve themselves to death. Its insane !! Hunger is caused by bad politics, not because people are lazy. This world has enough resources to feed 50 thousand times the population !! So why the f–k is there people dying of hunger??!! Do your research my friends.
Hope the best for all of you,
Maybe the missing element is love (or God, since God is love). Working has been reduced to something strictly for monetary profit. It has been sanitized of all of what is good about it. Work should always have an element of pride of workmanship, belief in what you’re doing, and yes… pure enjoyment of the task. While you should be properly compensated for what you do (and many of us are not, and never will be) it should be so much more than just that.
Am I making any sense at all?
Something is seriously wrong when you have a choice of death or work and death is starting to sound like a better option.
I pray that the future generations never have to do what we have done. The only thing I absolutely hate about my life is the entire concept of work and every job I have ever done is simply a different version of mundane hell.
Public _enemy is being 100% honest , and only a few people in the world (mostly the folks on this forum) will be non-judgemental. I hate all jobs as I wouldn’t even do something I liked for 8 hours (would probably want to do something else after about 4 hours max) never mind something I have to do. I HATE ALL JOBS! (just in case you folks didn’t get it the first time!)
good/evil balance: I agree, and if you’re anything like me then you’ve been from job to job to job…..to job, and couldn’t stand any one of them, but hoping for something better from the next job. Then tax time comes and you’re wondering which of the fifteen W2 forms you’ll use, all in the best manipulation to get the highest amount of tax money back.
What’s funny is you get one of those forms from jobs you’ve only worked one day.
The job I have now is the longest i’ve ever held (almost 5 years) and it’s only because I work alone…mostly , and I don’t have some asshole boss breathing down my neck (other than very seldom), so it gives me some small sense of freedom, as much as you could hope for with a job.
But I still hate it, just not as much as other jobs i’ve done.
Dirk, I am the same way. I’ve been to job to job to job many times. I’ve had jobs that I’ve quit where my friends couldn’t believe I gave up because the pay was decent. I don’t give a sht about pay at all. I just want to enjoy what I do. My buddy has been working in a factory for the past 14 years. All day he just applies ink numbers on the rulers. I’d go nutts doing that. I’d seriously last 2 hrs at most! I have respect for people who have the patience to stick with these mundane jobs though.
The longest I’ve stayed with a job was 6 yrs. It was the Military so I didn’t have an option to leave. But my current job I’ve been with for 5 months. I work outside by myself all day. Those are the only reasons I’ve been able to stick with it so far..I love the outdoors and I like working on my own..I just wish I could do it for a 2 hrs/day..not 8-10 hrs. Still, Everyday I think about leaving this job because I can’t stand the idea of having to work everyday just to pay bills. Seems like that’s all life is about is paying bills and working everyday. I think people should only have to work every other day. It would make work much more tolerable.
Oh crap- it’s Sunday night- the mind numbing 5-day odyssey begins shortly..god help me
John: I also forgot to mention with my current job, is only about 20-25 hours a week. So that is also a reason i’ve stuck with it (that and also not much choice due to that I need money so I pick the lesser of evils).
I don’t think I can really work a 40 hour a week job anymore, unless I’m being really paid well to make it worth my time, and even that’s a maybe, and probably not gonna happen anyways in any case.
I’ve worked at one of those factory jobs too you mentioned. 8 hours a day 5 days a week you would do the same repeptitive task over and over again, ie: one time I had to do the job of taking 5 plastic vhs cases off a converyer belt at a time, put them in a machine, hit two buttons to put creases in the sides, and put them in a box, for a total time of about 30 seconds, becuase you have to move fast because they keep coming. Repeat for 8 hours straight. I wanted to go insane sometimes, and I actually lasted a month at that job (which i feel pretty stupid for takin in the first place).
Why can’t we just live off the land? Animals do it, and we’re really just animals aren’t we? Were did all this work bull s–t come from? With all this credit crunch s–t the governement is borrowing money from God knows where changing interest rates at will……this prove s the illusion of the bulls–t money f–k ass system. It’s god damn mind control of the masses while the elite DO f–k ALL!!!!
Well, we can live off the land, but it would not be easy. We are trapped in a consumer hell, in which we spend most of our spare cash on little things to make our life less oppressive. The work crap was foisted on us by people who want to make money off of our misery, unfortunately it is a difficult treadmill to get off of, once you start buying houses, cars and all the other trash. I want to know why housing costs anything at all, it should be provided for us. We sometimes look at subsistence farmers and wonder how they do it, but they certainly have none of the stress levels that we have, and are probably a lot happier. Maybe the only way is to go to somewhere with a lower standard of living, and do it that way. I sometimes wish I knew how the money stuff worked, but I am pretty sure that the government just prints the s–t up, and magic it out of nowhere.
I hate the Sunday night feeling, that inevitability of the next five days looming over like a sentence. I have to take stuff just to get myself through each day, I know I shouldn’t but what else can you do?
I also hate how we’re pretty much raised to work. We go to school to learn the basics, get to high school and try to do good to get into a college. Do well in college so we can do what? Find a job. Some damn job you’ll probably hate doing anyways and stuck till the rest of your life. Oh, you can jump from job to job throughout that time, in attempt to find something better, but doubt that’ll happen.
Simon you’re right, we are trapped in consumerist hell. I heard a phrase the other day that I loved: something about consumerist sheep revolting. We are sheep following the dumb f–king herds. New cell phone? gotta have it. New mp3 player? gotta have it. New model Lexus? gimme. If we can break that cycle we have a chance. I am working at eliminating all my debt right now, in 5 years I want to buy some land and build an earthship (google earthships, they are f–king cool, off the grid homes) and live off the land. I might have to work a part-time job here and there, teach an art class or sell some of my work to make ends meet. We’ll still always need a little bit of cash for SOMETHING or other. But as little as possible to make ends meet. THAT is my dream!
For those that hate work (awesome vid banned by MTV, because it speaks truth and prob the suicides lol)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t3rzUVAHVd4
Agenda Suicide by Faint
Lyrics
You could follow logic
or contest it all
the work solution makes the common house a home
the element of progress
that you mention is gone
it de-evolved to something you were headed toward
as i lay to die the things i think
did i waste my time. i think i did- i worked for life
all we want are just pretty little homes
our work makes pretty little homes
like a cast shadow
like a fathers dream
have a cut out son
what’s a worse disease
to get that pretty little home
as i lay to die the things i think
i dont want to regret what i did- i worked for life
all we want are just pretty little homes
our work makes pretty little homes
agenda suicide, the drones work hard before they die
and give up on pretty little homes
(like a cast shadow)
our work makes pretty little homes
our work makes pretty little homes
agenda suicide. the drones work hard before they die
and give up on pretty little homes
Dirk/Lady j/others, Yes, we are raised to work, it is a fact of life which has been carried through with force since the advent of civilisation. Particularly since the industrial revolution. The majority of us have no choice, or very little choice, and as most of the wealth in this world is concentrated in very few hands, we are doing it for others. Any attempts to change these systems have met with massive amounts of force, so the likelihood that it will change is very small. You can escape it given enough talent, or enough luck, or if you are ruthless enough to exploit others. I think that jumping jobs does help for a while, until you get in the swing of the new place, and find that it is EXACTLY the same as your last s–tty workplace. I am a manager now, so it is perhaps not as bad, but I have never gotten over the feeling that I just do not want to be doing this. Lady j, yes we are sheep, and it is sickening to think that. I am thinking of selling off most of my stuff, and really slimming down on the consumer s–te. I have taken myself away from commercial tv for the last few years, and that helped a great deal. Perhaps part time work is the go, but it is so difficult to make ends meet with only part time work, and the powers that be know this. We are kept working so we don’t have time to reflect on our pathetic lives and situations…
Revolution is the only way, mass revolution. Unfortunately there are people rather accepting of their lot, who are co-opted by the system. But anti establishment activities will see an end to that
I’m joking about the anti establishment stuff, peace and so forth
Didn’t think these would get posted so easily! Anyway peaceful activism is what I was going on about.
Simon said: “We are kept working so we don’t have time to reflect on our pathetic lives and situations… ”
It’s absolutely true. After working 8-12 hour days, by the time we get home, we veg out in front of whatever insipid program or ‘news’ that is on the TV. We have no energy or brain power left to think about what’s really happening, much less to engage in the ‘peaceful activism’ that Nameless One is talking about. Read some Noam Chomsky wage slavery theory.
Simon, it’s damn hard to make ends meet (right now) on part-time work. BUT when my plan is put into motion (off-the-grid house on some land that I can grow much of my own food on, no debt like car payment or credit cards, and very few monthly bills – like internet which I’d never give up), then part-time work (and bartering, never forget bartering) will suffice.
yar, that is a problem, 8 hour work days leave one exhausted, although it is possible to get a second burst of energy by working afterwards. I did the 9-5 thing for 3 months, I couldn’t handle it so I quit. I work half days now, I’m lucky that I can do it and I want to ensure that whatever I end up doing for the rest of my life (going back to uni) it will be for myself and it will have a purpose.
My philosophy is to channel the tide rather than swim against/with it. Its very difficult to do this however so planning/careful thought and reviewing all the variables/things that can go wrong is important.
Chomsky is quite right, a lot of people are too exhausted to get “real news” as its difficult to source out, the internet has changed this to an extent which probably accounts for lobbying in Washington to compromise net neutrality (whereby corporations will be able to introduce tiered services and probably eliminate websites like this lol)
We live in servitude to an outdated primitive mindset which dictates that society must be structured on heirarchical lines, where slavery must be sustained through meaningless work for 8 hours a day. The system we have, the current rampant capitalism in place is unsustainable, in social and environmental contexts. People burn out, and soon enough we will have to actually make an effort to adapt to environmental problems or suffer the consequences.
I believe the future has a 60% chance of being better than now, because the tide of history at least as it pertains to Europe/America is for increased rights. That tide has been orchestrated by a continual fight by the oppressed for change. Maybe this combined with an enlightenment philosophy which has permeated till now.
But as I said the 9-5 slog is inhuman. I find if I wake up at 7.30/8.00 I’m just too cognitively exhausted before the day has even begun to process information. So its also balanced against night owls.
Imo working for 4-6 hours a day would be much better. I heard that in France people work for 6 hours a day, although Sarkozy aka George Bush acolyte wants to scrap this. What a twat. Anyway in the 19th century people had to work longer hours I think so its even better now, hopefully it will improve in the future.
Lady J: you’re right about the whole debt thing. I rid myself of almost all of my debt, just my car left and one real credit card, once those are paid, i’m on nothing but bills/ utilites. That’s why I can work part time now. Screw the 30-40,000 dollar car, the 250K house, and the tons of other waste of money crap that most people think they need. $400 cell phone? WHo wants internet and to watch movies on a little phone anyways? Unless your burning time at work sitting in a closet, that’s all I can think it’s good for.
I’d would rather work part time and have my freedom, and those other people can have their suv’s with dvd players and their debt/leash on thier neck to the workplace. Cause once you’re into all that debt, you’re really tied to needing that money, and thus stuck even more at your job.
And yes, I do have my own house that is paid off.
Also, when I buy something expensive, I try to sell something else I know longer use to try to cover the price of it. I
I agree Dirk- I live in a modest apartment- I don’t feel like I need material things- I have no major debt other than the internet/cable. I don’t have this “leash” like you’re saying- a great way of putting it.
I hate work too! I’m a CNA and work 40 hours a week for $10/hr. I have 2 slipped disk and have horrible back pain. I don’t have insurance so I can’t see a doctor unless I go to the ER and rake up higher bills.
f–k this!
All the while people who can barely speak the English language throw balls through hoops make millions of dollars!
I hate working, I hate my life, the physical and emotional pain. I’ve considered suicide many times and I don’t think it would be too bad of a move.
I hate work too! I’m a CNA and work 40 hours a week for $10/hr. I have 2 slipped disk and have horrible back pain. I don’t have insurance so I can’t see a doctor unless I go to the ER and rake up higher bills.
f–k this!
All the while people who can barely speak the English language throw balls through hoops make millions of dollars!
I hate working, I hate my life, the physical and emotional pain. I’ve considered suicide many times and I don’t think it would be too bad of a move.
Suicide is a respectable option imo. In Japan many are doing just that and it’s honored there. Not in the West though unfortunately. I too, have considered ending my life, but I could never do it because I wouldn’t want my Mom and rest of family to be miserable. I hope your back gets better. I had a herniated disc and you’re right, they are horribly painful. After doing Yoga on a regular basis, it decreased the pain 80%. I wish you the best Workerbee.
my boss is a dumb f–king whore. more later. just had to vent RIGHT NOW. lol
Sorry for the previous rant. I try hard not to send out negative thoughts but sometimes it’s so damn hard! Sigh. I can’t wait for the day I don’t have to be here. At least I’m working towards that point and slowly but surely, I see that moment in my future! Something good, at least, coming out of my hatred for inane office work: it makes me strive that much harder to break free. If I hadn’t realized that there are alternatives to the mind-numbing, soul-sucking 9-5, I think I would have turned to suicide also.
Well, suicide is always something that crops up when you are doing something your mind and soul feels to be abhorrent. I have often thought of swerving into a light pole, or something similar when driving to work. Even hospital is a better prospect than 8-9 hours in an office cell. It is a trap, a very carefully constructed trap, and Noam Chomsky has described it well. All the poorer countries are there purely to satisfy our needs for cheap raw materials and cheap manufacturing processes so a few people can get super rich. Disgusting and shameful that we as a human society should have stooped this low. All those years of civilisation to produce this!! People in poorer countries look at us and envy our lifestyle, but I am sure they have no idea of the cost of that lifestyle. Once you are on the consumer treadmill, it will take a lot of energy and determination to get off….
Nice Poem from Buk:
I always resented all the years, the hours, the
minutes I gave them as a working stiff, it
actually hurt my head, my insides, it made me
dizzy and a bit crazy — I couldn’t understand the
murdering of my years
yet my fellow workers gave no signs of
agony, many of them even seemed satisfied, and
seeing them that way drove me almost as crazy as
the dull and senseless work.
the workers submitted.
the work pounded them to nothingness, they were
scooped-out and thrown away.
I resented each minute, every minute as it was
mutilated
and nothing relieved the monotonous ever-
structure.
I considered suicide.
I drank away my few leisure hours.
I worked for decades.
I lived with the worst of women, they killed what
the job failed to kill.
I knew that I was dying.
something in me said, go ahead, die, sleep, become
them, accept.
then something else in me said, no, save the tiniest
bit.
it needn’t be much, just a spark.
a spark can set a whole forest on
fire.
just a spark.
save it.
I think I did.
I’m glad I did.
what a lucky god damned
thing.
Nice Poem from Buk:
Sorry forgot to put my name in!
Simon
I get why people get addicted and try to escape reality. Because why even bother coming back? There is nothing to go back to but legal slavery&stress.
Suicide? Sure, why not. But before doing it, i suggest loaning alot of money from the bank and skipping the country,..to let say thailand. Buddy of mine was sick of it all, but before going he gave a big f–k you and spend it all on booze,women,whatever. RIP dave.
Anyways, eventually i’m gonna do the same thing. Retirement? Pfff, too old to enjoy.(for me anyways)
Its the movie Groundhog’s Day- except for us its reality. I hope to god the Mayan calendar comes true. Dec 21, 2012- the world ends. Google it. This calendar has been pretty accurate throughout history- it has predicted world events to a tee.
The thing I hate most about work is that it has made me look for and expect the worst from the human race. I view the world as a hopeless, cruel place, thanks to years of working in the abusive service industry.
I wish I could get paid for what I love to do – photography – but unfortunately I am too indebted to society (bills) to strike out on my own and quit a steady gig.
Society sucks, and we need a major overhaul.
Why am I, a member of the working poor, paying taxes to bail out rich people? Where’s my bail out? Who will help me when they come to repossess my car? When they cancel my car insurance because I can’t pay it? When they turn off my heat and electricity because it is too expensive? Who’s going to help me pay my rent?
And who came up with the title “working poor” anyway? Wouldn’t it be logical that if there’s a name for my condition there’s a cure? The only cure I can see is welfare, and I apparently make too much money. The only sympathetic thing I have ever read about the working poor was written in my sociology textbook.
There’s no happy medium: people worry about all those poor homeless people living on the streets, and worry about all those poor RICH people losing millions of dollars in the stock market, but nothing is said about people like me.
I work my ass off every day, I go to school in hopes of having a good future, and I sit here in my ghetto apartment with the oven door open for heat while I waste away because I can’t afford food…and my tax money goes to rich bastards who are too greedy to quit while they’re ahead. It’s like if they ignore us we’ll go away…and they’re right. I’m too poor to do anything about my situation. There’s nowhere to go but down.
This country makes me sick. I’d leave if I could afford a plane ticket.
Tuition at my state university is going to rise 13 to 26 percent because the economy is so s–tty. There goes my education…all I have to look forward to is a life of dead-end jobs and living on cans of dog food and Ramen noodles. God Bless America.
I love this website, it feels great to vent.
I want to see a television show about what it’s like to be poor, too poor to be healthy but not poor enough to be bailed out by the government.
I want to see characters cry because they can’t afford a trip to the doctor. I want to watch them diagnose themselves on their stolen internet. I want to see them go to the drug store and hope that the cheapest over-the-counter medicine will help them feel well enough to make it through their shift at work so they can afford the gas to drive there the next day. I want to see them ignore their symptoms because it’s easier.
I want to see them at work in their crap jobs, where they get insulted and taken advantage of by bosses and customers with superiority complexes. I want to see them grit their teeth and take it because they can’t afford to get fired.
I want to see them struggle to pay their bills – I want them to short the minimum payments each month because they need to spend that money on hot dogs and macaroni and cheese (more filling and less expensive than healthy food). I want to see them cry in frustration when they get cancellation and shut-off notices from their cell phone, car insurance, electric, and gas companies. I want to listen to them fight with their car companies, trying to avoid repossession. I want to see them get nervous when they hear a truck drive by, and run to the window to make sure it’s not their car being towed away.
I want to listen to them tell God they don’t believe in him anymore because he doesn’t help. I want to see them lose faith in their lives and society because they are stuck in a downward spiral. I want to watch them get rejected from welfare and food stamps because they make too much money. I want to watch them struggle to pay their way through school, and sacrifice eating to afford textbooks. I want them to be denied financial aid because they applied one day too late – because the internet was shut off due to non-payment. I want them to feel guilty for spending $5.25 on a stale sandwich at school because they didn’t eat breakfast and have been in school for 7 hours – but that money could have gone in their gas tank. I want to see them run out of gas on the way home and watch as car after car drives by as they walk down the highway alone.
How’s that for Reality TV?
Some very interesting comments, and the need to overhaul our way of life has never been more evident than now. The distribution of wealth has always been skewed towards the rich and pampered people in our society, and that is always a recipe for disaster. The fact that people cannot even live properly, regardless of which country they are in, shows how far this situation has gotten out of hand. The top 5% of the people who own 75-80% of the wealth should be forced to move this money around. I feel sorry for the would be photographer (Amelia), mainly because I am a frustrated photographer myself. I have tried to make some space with money, so I can pursue it, but it will never happen. When suicide becomes a realistic option for people, you know we are in s–t…
Government bail outs will never reach anyone that actually needs the money.
Why not split up that bail money and give the middleclass money out of those billions of dollars. If the dumb f–k automotive companies didn’t continue to make the big gas guzzling trucks and suvs, maybe their dumbasses wouldn’t need bail outs. Gas is lower now, but it’ll go back up. Let’s make some more hummers, you stupid s–ts.
Rich people get all of lifes perks, poor people get a lot of s–t for free, US SUCKERS who work, get stress, worry, and no help.
I agree with you, Howie, about the Mayan prophecy and that something will happen. Their calendar is more precise than anything current scientists can produce. They have made predictions about eclipses hundreds of years in the future that came true among other predictions that came true as well. There is something with the Mayans and ancient Egyptians that boggles my mind and many others. How did they make those pyramids align with certain stars and with such great accuracy?? Modern architects admit they couldn’t even rebuild them today with that degree of accuracy even with todays tech and machines. I personally don’t believe the world will end in 2012. But I think, and hope, that humans will change the way they live their lives by then. The mayan calendar ends on that day (Dec. 21, 2012) and the Earth’s magnetic poles are supposed to change then, which may cause natural disasters. http://www.polereversal.com/ I say bring it on!!
Just watched this video and it makes you wonder how they could know so much back then.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uZIfyXc8RWk
I was watching a documentary the other day and it was all about some ancient tribes. They looked so healthy, happy, full of life and they lived of the land, looked after it, hunted, grew food etc.
They looked so free and it made me think about all of us spending 8+ hours a day stuck in a small box with a desk, computer and a s–tty phone. Which one was meant to be for humans, certainly not the latter.
duh I meant to say ”and they looked after it” not ”live after it”.
Sorry everyone, my boring f–king job has made me brain dead.
I’m looking forward to this next week at work. My boss will be gone so I will be able to get s–t done without her bugging me. lol!
Guys, listen to “Don’t Worry Be Happy”..by Bobby McFerrin- it’ll make you feel better, even if its for 5 minutes..
It pisses me off that we can’t even stop working for ONE WEEK to celebrate thanksgiving and spend time with our families. Like, really, the world might fall apart if we did. Is it really so damn important for me to be sitting here wasting time while NOTHING is happening in the office? Jeezus.
“Predictable” – The Kinks- these lyrics so do apply, don’ t they?:
Go to my office, sit at my desk,
Predictably just like all of the rest.
I sit and I dream about far away places,
Away from the people with frowns on their faces.
All of my life is monotony
I’d go out for a walk but I know it would be
(Predictable)
Sure as the nose on my face
(Predictable)
Same for the whole human race
Once we (once we) had so many options
Once we (once we) had dignity and grace
Now we (now we) have got nothing but our own time to waste.
Nice lyrics Howie, and pretty applicable my friend… I have tried listening to music to take my mind off work, but it doesn’t work in the end.
Ladyj, everyone should be entitled to decent time off from work, how we ever got forced to agree to working 40 hours a week is absolutely beyond me, it always makes me think of the Dumb and Dumber film when the two boys go looking for work, and when they come home:
“I can’t believe there aren’t any jobs in this whole stinking town… Yeah not unless you want to work forty hours a week!” ha ha
public_enemy, those tribes looked happy, because they probably were. At least they will be until civilisation hits them on the forehead, introduces consumer goods, forty hour weeks and expensive houses and cars… Unfortunately, they probably have no choice.
Lady J: Don’t worry, the managers and other “high up’s” get off for all holidays. I work every single holiday. Even christmas. No wonder people go on psychotic rampages at work.
When I worked in accounting I wore my headphones all day. Just processing invoices and sorting s–t out. It was nice. Listening to music especially heavy metal is like a big silent ‘f–k you’ to the slave drivers who would be shocked if they heard what I listen to.
Anyhow. I’m getting the whole week of xmas off. I told my boss that I don’t go on vacations, cause I can’t afford to, so the only time off I really care about is having a week off at xmas. She loves me cause I’m so damn good at my job, she said ok.
Simon, 40-hour work weeks are so f–king dumb. Studies have shown that employees spend, what was the figure, an hour or a couple of hours each day just goofing off. I’d rather go in for 5 hours, work my butt off, get the s–t done, and go home. Not sit around bored.
Dirk, at least if the managers and other slave drivers are off during the holidays, you get a little break from them? I don’t know what industry you work in, it might be impossible for you to take xmas off, but I think you should put your foot down… or call in sick! lol!
The choices are:
1) Work for the rest of my life (slave), beyond my 60’s surrounded by morons, petty backstabbers in a job I do not enjoy to pay for 4 walls that are the very reason why I have to slave in the first place (mortgage).
2) Remove myself from the planet for ever to be potentially free.
Perhaps this is part of the reason why suicide claims more lives than serious illnesses do (according to stats).
f–k money sucks! I was just offered a promotion where I’d be making double what I’m making now. My boss, family, friends are all saying take it!! Why? Only because of the $$$. But the job sounds like something I’d not enjoy at all. I’m going in to work in a few and turn it down. Working for the sole reason to pay my bills sucks ass. Maybe I should become a monk..or a kung fu monk.
Who makes the money, the government. Who taxes the money, the government. Who decides to spend the money, the government. Who has to work, for the majority of their lives for these bastards,we do…..
If we have to work, why can’t we all do an hour a day and let the government just alter the economy to accommodate this? We could all do the shift we liked……everyone happy not to painfull then, plus plenty leisure time..
The reason we work long hours is so we have no energy to become involved in the affairs of state/to think of new original ideas/challenge the status quo imo.
Another problem would be competitiveness. Basically if one country decided to work less hours they would have less gdp I think, I’m not too good on business logic, compared to countries with longer hours.
I agree we should work less hours but not everyone thinks in this way. The competitive asshole type people cannot see beyond their own contexts, ie they are incapable of self reflection and are unaware of the bigger picture. They invariably factor into societal organization.
People like heirarchies. We are forced to make money in a game we are strongly encouraged to partake in. Its bulls–t mostly and the best thing to do is not buy into it and try to build a better future outside of the parameters.
corona radiata is absolutely spot on. You work long hours to keep you from becoming aware of what is happening around you. If you work long days (or nights), what interest are you going to have in politics, the state of the environment or anything really. The people that make money will also keep us working to the max, and will strongly resist any changes to a system that keeps us in perpetual slavery.
To keep us working, we have to buy an extremely expensive plot of land and a house to go on it, which we pay for over about thirty years or more, sometimes without paying it off.
A more humane working week would be much shorter, say 3 to 4 days max, it would not be eight hours, and would have a reasonable break in the middle for people to be people.
I subscribe to public_enemys notion of removing yourself, if I could do my 20s,30s again I would not marry, I would certainly not bring any children into this world and would move into a hut somewhere in the outback. I have been tricked in to buying s–t I do not need, and to perpetuating my own misery. I am well paid, but at the end of the day it is all gone. I have no plans to retire, because I do not believe there will be any retirement when I get to that age.
As for the working week, I spend as MUCH time goofing off as possible, and would probably do about an hour a day if that. I know it is a kind of sabotage, but I really don’t care anymore.
Has anyone thought of a way out of this hell besides topping yourself?
One more thing, I always look forward to this page, there are some smart people here with some excellent thoughts!
Cheers
So glad i found this site, i was rock bottom and felt so alone in this world and typed in some words on google and found myself here.
I hate work, it makes me feel trapped and even when im not at work and doing something i usually enjoy like watching football at the pub i can’t enjoy myself coz i’m thinking bout work the next day.
I delay goin to sleep because i hate work so i staying awake as long as possible feels like a minor escape but then i’m all tired.
But to see i am not alone in this thinking has kinda helped me in a weird way.
All: you are correct in everything you say. Simon, I too enjoy this page! It’s also nice to know I am not the only person who thinks this way.
I am only 31 but I too wish I had saved throughout my 20’s so that I wouldn’t have to be working right now. I squandered a lot of money, trying to do the ‘right’ things and be the ‘right’ person — according to the rules society imposes. When I was 27-29 were probably the toughest years for me. I really struggled and was majorly depressed as I started to realize that the things society tells us we need and the things society tells us we should do, were crap. Opened my eyes to the way things work in other countries and to the way some people even here in the U.S. live alternate lifestyles. Opened my eyes to things I can do to change my life, even living here and having to deal with this society. I could really start rambling on here, but I need to go see how my turkey is doing. lol! I’m cooking it early so I don’t have to do it tomorrow.
Anyway, needless to say I’m glad to have found a ‘community’ of like-minded people.
I’m with you lady j! When you see how the ‘primitive’ people live in the Amazon for example. They have life sooo hard compared to us. They have no money so they have to hunt their food in the sun, or catch their fish in the nice almost pollution free waters and then gather berries and collect roots from the open forests. God, they are so basic they don’t even have cancer or heart attacks not even their elderly have dementia. And they look so lean and muscular even in their 50’s obviously they are not eaten enough hydrogenated fats and calories like us. They are so lazy that their hunts probably last about a few hours out doors in a dreaded sunny environment, but if they do get sick, what do they do. OMG they use natural remedies that have no side effects. They are so far behind they barely even wear clothes! I don’t no why there is no rape, muggings or child abuse. God they want to come to the west and join the free developed world full of wondrous technology and opportunity. Where the sexes and minorities walk hand in hand absolutely united in the belief and pure blind faith that we are bettering ourselves and enriching our lives now and for our old age and most importantly our children, more fool those ‘primitive’ lawless poor people.
It’s black friday, so I decided to go out to walmart and look at all the stupid people wasting the money that they don’t have just to catch a “deal”. They’ve accepted their lot in the working world, or they just don’t know what they’re trapped in.
I also wasted too much money in my 20’s, now in my 30’s I realize I don’t need all this materialistic bulls–t. I have what is nessecary now, and not much else interests me. I read books in my free time now, and watch very little tv. (It gets me away from realty for awhile, without the reality tv)
And like simon said, I’m not so sure I bringing a kid in this world was good for them (him, in my case), cause this working for money to survive sucks. He’ll have fun as a kid, do school, and then work and wonder “what’s the point?”.
Our materialism and consumerist greed is disgusting:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081128/ap_on_re_us/wal_mart_death
That’s pretty damn bad. My brother works at walmart and was telling me how a couple fights broke out over toys and a tv.
Is saving a couple bucks really that important?
I went to college, graduated and am currently stuck in the job from hell. I work 12 hour shifts, mostly alone, performing the same mindless, soul-sucking tasks all effin day. Everyone here is completely uneducated, bigoted and sexist. It’s all I can do to not yell and scream at everyone to wake up. I collect a (pretty great) paycheque every 2 weeks, but I have no desire to almost do that any more. I hate work. The only reason I don’t quit is because this job pays me so well and I have bills! I hate work so very, very much.
That black friday article doesn’t do much to inspire any shred of faith in humanity. Maybe its the culture. One word springs to mind is sheeple.
It’s Sunday… anyone else already dreading going back to work tomorrow?? I sure am… I saw a bumper sticker last week that made me laugh: ‘Do all jobs suck, or just mine?’
Well, It’s Monday again, but the reality is, that I cannot drag myself in. I’m going to take a couple of days off, which in the end will only postpone the inevitable, but it is better than nothing right!?
The answer to your question LadyJ is that all jobs SUCK! The only jobs that don’t are those where your ass doesn’t belong to someone else.
I have been thinking about alternatives, and I think I need to set up some passive income. I can also sell my pictures, and have won an award for writing so why carry on with this farcical life working for someone else.
I figure I might get sacked shortly anyway, due to my half assed efforts. Still, eating stale bread would beat dying in a fluoro office.
I deliver mail for work. I have a walking route and walk 8-12 miles/day. Today we received around 12″ of snow and I had to literally jog part of my route and skip my breaks to get the mail delivered within the 12 hr work day. I come home freezing and all stressed out because there’s so much pressure to get the mail delivered in a certain amount of time. Ok, I’m done whining. Time for a career change..
Artie, I have done that job as a seasonal position, and it absolutely sucks. My bro and his wife both work at the post office for about $30 an hour, and they both hate it but stay because of the pay. But to me, no amount of money would get me to go back to that hell hole. Delivering mail is a bitch that you’ll never understand unless you actually do it, especially in the snow.
I hate my job
Everyone I work with has abosutely no manners whatsoever. You walk into the place and no one speaks, they are a bunch of rude people living in a small town. They complain about little things. All I do is stand around starring at the wall. And guess was the add bonus is, I get pain close to min wage. I am through as soon as I find another job i’m out.
It looks like work is really bad. I should be enjoying what I do, since I have been studying it for around 6 years I know the job fairly well. But it seems that bosses and the corporate world has perverted my proffesion. I am since looking to work for a smaller company, one with a heart… screw you corporate world!!!!
I have to work tomorrow (sunday)… UGH!! And what’s worse is I twisted my ankle today (not too bad but enough to hurt) and I have to be on my feet all afternoon & night tomorrow, running around and wiping my boss’s ass. Damn. I only wish I’d twisted it worse!!!
the Sunday night sweats are upon me- another 5-day “sentence” just ahead
nooo back to work soon!
It’s ok guys/ladies, just take a day off… You wont regret it.
For Angelo, smaller companies are usually a lot better to work for, as long as you can get the right mix of people. Downside is, if the economy tanks, you will normally be looking for another job. Unless you can make yourself indispensable of course!
LadyJ, I’d be trying to twist that ankle some more, have some morphine on stand by.. Your choice, work or a twisted ankle! I know mine..
Yes I think the twisted ankle is going to take a turn for the worse and require me to stay home for at least one day later this week. Will give me time to work on my jewelry, too.
dreading work tomorrow:(
I had to have a lie in today, I just couldn’t cope going in. I just lied and told them I missed my bus. At least I missed part of the morning…..
well done beerengine, we are proud of you. Enjoy that well deserved rest! I’ve been off ill for over a week now, I expect to get the ass when I return.
I can’t afford Christmas presents this year because I am too broke. I am a waitress, and no one is eating out anymore. I have to decide between paying my bills or buying presents. This money pressure is driving me crazy.
Ohhhh Mrs Santa Claus just pay your bills. The true meaning of Christmas has been lost. It’s just so materialistic now, especially considering that Christ was a humble man who owned nothing….
I agree with beerengine. Forget about buying presents. Just spend time with the ones you love. That is much more rewarding than any mp3 player, TV, phone, game, etc.
Our family hasn’t exchanged presents in the last several years. I’m the baby of the family and I’m 55, so I figure all of us pretty much have everything we want anyway, or we can buy what we want. We have lost touch with the likes and dislikes of each other, so presents often became white elephants. It was more trouble to take them back, or to just keep them and not like them.
What we do now is just have a Christmas dinner together, and i truly like that better.
Mrs. Santa Clause, you might wait til after Christmas for all the great sales and your money would stretch further.
I can’t even afford a tree this year, which is fine with me. I kinda feel bad all those trees being cut down and I always see half-full tree lots after the holidays. It’s a waste. I’m making a lot of presents this year. And also buying everyone lots of books from a half price bookstore. My family is absolutely ok with used books and hand-crafted items. Even if they weren’t, screw ’em! It’s the thought that counts!!
Christmas has been perverted from its original meaning, which was originally a pagan festival called Yule (in Northern Europe). Hijacked by the Christians, and subsequently the shop owners. It is a pathetic waste of money, and the government here in Australia is encouraging people to get out and spend, to save a capitalist system which is groaning under its own weight. So, the bottom line is, spend it with the people you love, enjoy their company if you can, and make your gifts. Something that is given and made is a lot more pleasurable. Regardless of what you do, stay safe and try not to worry about spending money. Especially money you do not have.
Ah, i hate going to work everyday. It seems like such a waste and doesn’t seem worth it.
In reality- there are no good days of the week because well Mon-Fri you are working, so those days are out. Then Saturday is the day you do everything you couldn’t do during the week, and then Sunday comes and you are back to thinking about work again! It just doesn’t seem right. Living this type of lifestyle is truly being a slave, i hate it sooo much. I dont know what I can do to get out of this working world, because i hate waking up 5 days a week and going to work…it kills me inside so badly.
I am glad so many other people feel the same way, because I really though i was alone. I go to work and everyone else seems ok..but maybe deep down everyone is really hating it and just plain miserable. What is this world coming too. I thought going to post secondary school would allow me the chance to get a “good” job, but in fact it didn’t. Every job is garbage, every job is a soul killing life- it will just never end until you either die, get fired, and retire and then die quickly after.
Ahh-what a garbage lifestyle we live.
i hate work! i hate everyone at my work place.
forget work, we should just live off the land.
Sadx2, those are my thought exactly. It’s like you read my mind!
“It seems like such a waste and doesn’t seem worth it. ”
Fred—-
i know, it really doesn’t seem worth it, but the question is..why do “we” continue to do it day in and day out?
if we know its not worth it, why do we do it? Yes money, but i don’t think that is the only reason why we continue on wasting our life at work.
I just haven’t found the answer yet.
If I may jump in…I ask myself the exact same question everyday. I was outside in the rain waiting on a bus at an ungodly hour of the morning to go and spend 8 hours around people that I wouldn’t befriend of my volition. Why in the hell am I doing this? Short answer: I’m afraid not to. The same reason I don’t kill myself, I am scared to. I have no family, no passions, no gods to fear, no valid reason to hang around. But I continue doing it because I am afraid. Who ever says suicide is cowardly is an idiot. There is nothing more cowardly than someone (namely myself) getting up every day to go and sit at desk while I watch my world glide by because I am to scared to do anything else.
Sunday Morning, I understand your frustrations, however i must try to persuade you in the feeling that suicide is not the answer. Life (real life) is wonder, it is beautiful, amazing…sit back and really think about life, the bare essentials of life. For ex: how a child can be born- that is amazing, or how lakes and volcanos are formed-truly spectacular. You, like 85% of the working world (maybe 15% really do like their job, i am not sure) are not able to think outside our depressing life because we are so frustrated and miserable. Maybe you should find a hobby, or a passion–it would be good for you.
With all that being said; i agree 100% that working a job, takes away from what life is really meant to be and yes it can lead us to believe that life is a pointless, never ending struggle. We just have to be strong and find a way out.
Sunday,
I feel the same way. Sitting in a cube all day with fat women who talk about pointless s–t is like Chinese Water torture. I see the metal coffins (cars) every morning on I-71 who are thinking the same things I am, headed to their 8-hour daily prison “sentence”. But you’ve hit it on the head- I’m too scared not to conform. That “green piece of tree bark”, is, I guess, sort of a necessity? Is there anything worse than conforming though? It sucks. I wish we could live our lives. I don’t think you want to kill yourself Sunday Morning- i think you just want this mind-numbing routine to end.
I guess for some there is a fear of doing something different, for others work is a necessity borne out of having a family to support, and huge mortgages. I think when you are younger it is a bit easier, and a few more options are available. Once I got sick of working, and sold up my house, packed the kids and wife up and went to England for three years. That’s how sick of work I was… Funny, all workplaces seem to have the same features: Lifeless People, Dull Environments, Lots of FLuoro Lights, Computers everywhere, and people wishing they could get the xxxx out of there.
“we should just live off the land”
Not to be a smart alec, but just how realistic IS this idea?
Ever tried to have a back yard garden, maybe just a few tomatoes? It is NOT s sure thing. So many things can go wrong to ruin a garden. If I HAD to survive this way, it would truly be a gamble.
And even if I could, I couldn’t possibly meet ALL my needs. I would still need clothing. Should I grow my own cotton and sheep and set a loom up in the garage? I just don’t have enough knowledge within myself to become totally free from the world.
Even if I dumpster dived a lot of my stuff, I’m still relying on someone to be a wage slave and throw the stuff out.
Kathy, lol! That image of raising sheep and having a loom in your garage, hilarious! Made me laugh. I can see where you are coming from, but I think the key is to just limit the ways in which you are a consumer. If you don’t have to buy everything, you need less money to live on, which equals job freedom! Which is what we all want, right? We are totally trained to be consumers, and consumers = wage slaves. If we can grow some of our own food, we don’t have to buy it…. if you can mend your clothes, or sew, you don’t have to buy from stores as much. Plus you probably get more unique, cooler clothes than what you can get at the stores anyway! To me, it’s all about breaking the cycle a little bit so I only have to work part time at a job I hate, rather than full time. lol!
I think if you take the “less work more freedom” path you are gonna get ALOT of difficulties,especially if you are trying to find a partner. My last girlfriend despised my “lazy attitude” and told me to get a damn FULL TIME JOB. I did, and it was the worst decision of my life. I did quit and when back to my old part time job which is bearable and she broke up with me, claiming i am not someone she sees a future with(house,car,kids,the works).
I don’t own a car (don’t want one), my clothes are “normal”, i don’t go clubbing buying 50 dollar drinks but stay at home or just hang out with friends.
I’m free but at the same time i’m not. I’m being punished by not being a “sheep”, opportunities are lost and you wonder what if i kept my full time job.
I agree, WhatIf about being punished for not being a “sheep”. Luckily, my wife could care less if I worked part time or full time, but my father and some of my friends think that if you don’t work 40+ hours/week, you’re not a real man. I currenlty work 40-48 hrs /week but I’m taking my wife to Hawaii for 2 weeks in January and when I get back, I’m cutting my hours to 25/week.
My pop worked 50+ hrs week for the past 45 years of his life and he is one of the most unhappy people I’ve ever met. Love him but he thinks work is life. He can never relax..when my Mom and he go on a vacation, he can’t relax because he’s not working. I NEVER want to end up like that. F no. When I go to visit him, his first question is “how’s work going?” Everytime, it’s the same question. Then he’ll sometimes ask how many hours I’m putting in. They he’ll talk down about my brother because he’s only working 30-35 hrs / week. I feel sorry for my bro because his wife nags him too to work more hours.
Yeah, I do give up a lot and I do get ‘punished’ or face difficulties for not conforming and working a mind-numbing 40 hours a week. But ya know what? f–k ’em. In my family, I think only my dad truly understands and supports me. But I have luckily found a partner that feels the same way. I’m so happy to have found him!! We are both totally fine with working less and having less. It’s definitely a lifestyle choice, and it’s certainly not easy. Sometimes I wonder if I should just take a well-paying job in accounting (my previous field) and save every dollar I can, so I can quit in a couple years. But even if I did that for a year or two, the day-to-day grind and 40+ hours per week would kill me. It wasn’t worth it before, and it’s not worth it now. Besides, I’d probably end up buying the latest fashions so I could keep up with the office fashion show! No thanks.
it’s that Sunday night feeling again. I think I would rather be hit by a truck than to have to go in tomorrow morning.
I’m starting to hate Sunday nights.
I get the Sunday night feeling right after I clock out of work Friday afternoon. Not kidding either. I guess I need to find a different job if I dread it this much..
One thing about my partner is that we both hate working and can totally understand each other about only working part time. I actually make more money part time then a lot of full time people around here, so that proabably helps in peoples judgement of me. But I get what you mean Whatif, that’s just how most of us are brainwashed to think, that you should work 40 hours a week, because that’s how life is. If you don’t, you’re some type of loser, just cause you don’t wanna waste all of your younger years working. Most people will just never understand, cause like I said, most of them are brainwashed that way since the time they are born.
I hate Sunday night-
It is such a depressing feeling- actually depressing isn’t even a strong enough word because the feeling i get is beyond being depressed.
Dirk, you are correct. People do feel that working 40 hours is the norm and anyone who thinks of doing less is considered “lazy” or “a bum”. People are brainwashed and I cannot understand how people could actually tolerate this wasteful life.
I really need to get out of the 40 hour work week and find a decent part time job that can get me by and have more free time. Maybe starting a business is the answer but that is hard as well.
My bro went from working 32 hours a week (4 days) to 40 hours (5 days) and oh, how he can’t stand it. Maybe it would make life a little easier to make the standard week only 4 days instead of 5, and yet get paid the same. But that is but fantasy I guess. It’s amazing what one more day off a week can do for you.
Hey guys, Some great reading material(it’s a comic !): called”Time Management for Anarchists”
http://nomediakings.org/press/the_time_management_for_anarchists_comic.html
I actually went out and bought it, so very amusing and so true. If you find yourself in a bookstore or whatever, check it out^^
four days of work would be a good start, I don’t know the asswipe that managed to shoehorn in the five day working week, but I’d sure like to meet him/her. Five days a week is too much, eight hours a day is too much. We all want to live, not suffocate in fluoro hell.
I hate work.
I work with homeless people. You know drug addicts, hookers, alcoholics ect.
People always say “oh that must be so rewarding”. Is it f–k.
They are adults who have chosen to not look after themselves. I get shouted and sworn at on a daily basis. I’ve had certified psychopaths track my home down and stalk/harrass me. Ive been kicked, punched, spat at.
These people reliey on hand outs and feel that they are owed it. If we dont have anything to give them we can expect verbal and quite often physical abuse.
If we even slightly retaliate we get reprimanded and the cops are called.
I don’t however just hate my job.
I’m sure its no suprise to you but we are born in to slavery. However we now “choose” to do it.
The wool has been well and truely pulled over our eyes.
Like someone else mentioned earlier in this, I too would like to just live on a farm with a big f–king fence around it and not deal with any of the money hungry bastards out there.
hey everyone- just thought there should be an uplifting feeling within the site…
I hope everyone can enjoy their Holiday season..
But on a side note—what is your occupation, just curious?
I love my job!
You think when your younger life will be easy, how wrong i was, the stupid 9-5 shift humans weren’t designed for this, oh and you look forward to coming home after days work only to be to tired and buggered to do anything same goes for weekends. You leave school only to work for 40+ plus years and what get a lousy 2 week holiday per year?? that’s not life its toture to think how much your missing out on in life. To top it off how can you do the things you could have done in your adulthood when your retired and suffering from pain as a result from years of labour. life should be fun not work dominating it.
Working life, I work as a meter reader for the power company. Basically, I just walk all day long 8-12 miles x day, getting nipped at by dogs in back yards. lol Not looking forward to today. There is 4 foot snow drifts out there. Michigan just got dumped on with a bunch of snow. ugh!! Time to go freeze my arse off! Happy Holidays!!
i am DILF HUNTER!!
t3h 1337 DILF HUNTER
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I would rather DIE than repeat my job circles.
I cannot express, it is humanly impossible to say the level of utter loathing which I have for all companies and most people I have shat my life away with.
Bill Hicks summed it up, “Congratulations for living in the land of the free!
You’re free to do what we tell you!
You’re free to do what we tell you!”
If I continue working in offices with office morons, I WILL end up in jail.
The actions of people that I have experienced first hand, are beyond anything that I thought any self respecting human being could do.
I sincerely believe they deserve to be punished with no mercy.
Yo Craigyfookinhatework, Bill Hicks is a genuine hero man. He knew it all, and sadly died pretty young. A man that knew the pain we are all going through in having to drag ourselves through the work trash heap each day. You will never find any decent people at work, most places are filled with sadists, psychopaths and other human detritus. You quickly lose any sense of who you are, or even what people are supposed to be like.
Well, time to go back to work out in the blizzard conditions. Even that I sometimes prefer to working alondside with idiots.
Hi Simon
Yea Bill was someone who was right about most things, and didn’t fit in because of it 😀
But a lot of other people loved him, he just didn’t always get to meet us.
“I can get up at dawn, go to a job that I hate, which doesn’t inspire me creatively what so ever, for the rest of my f–king life – orrrr I can get up at noon, and learn how to play the sitar”
hahahahaha neeoww ne neeowww hahahaha
\m/ “awwwwwww suck Satin’s cock!!”
Yes indeed, Bill was spot on: if I can’t find work that I can do myself, I’ll work for someone else but in a job that doesn’t involve being with other people.
There are FAR too many wankers out there.
Oh well fellow Bill Hicks worshipper, have a nice time over the Christmas and I wish you well for next year, if it’s not better I hope it’s at least not much s–tter than this one hehehe
\m/ \m/
Goat Child.
My boss is 10 years younger than me- he kisses so much ass his mouth is full of dingleberries. I am the only male in the hierarchy- he kisses up to all the women, but not to me. He is scared of resistance. He thinks he has a great job, but he is a frickin credit manager- i don’t know what the f** he does all day. Then he comes down on me at times thinking I don’t know how to do my job- than a 1/2 hr goes by and he acts nice to me- like nothing ever happened. A-hole.
Its a tiny comfort to know I am not alone in hating my work. I have been in my current job for nearly 3 months and already I am wanting out. I spend my free time away from the office worrying about having to go back. The management are all wankers and a couple of my colleagues are downright nasty, wicked bitches. I fantasise about walking out, however financial commitments have ruled that pleasure out. I hate my life and will continue to do so until I can find another job that doenst make me feel like s–t everytime I enter my office. And to the two c*nts who bad mouth everyone – I truly hope you get your comeuppance one day.
Yea Tracey – but try to remember that it isn’t you, it is them.
xx
I’ve had my share of cunty gossipy bitches in the office. One time they found my blog online, where I was bitching about having to do my fat bitch coworker’s work, and they told everyone about it. I actually got pulled into said coworker’s manager’s office about it. When he told me about it, I laughed. What a joke. They couldn’t do anything to me.
Anyway, sometimes when everyone in the office is stressing out and freaking out and pulling their hair out, I like to sit in my chair and paste a pleasant expression on my face, maybe hum a pleasant tune to myself, go make a cup of tea and breathe it in like I have no worries. They all wonder why I’m not stressing out and I just laugh inside because they are stressing out over dumb f–king s–t. lol!
oh no-its Sunday night. Thank God we at least have one day off. But come Jan 2nd- the next work hoilday is Memorial day- yikes..god help us–almost 5 months of 40 hour hell without a break.
When I think of life, work is the only thing I loathe with all my being. What is the extgift of life without true freedom to live it. I don’t see the point and if not for the instinct to survive, this planet would be half empty by now. Despite this, suicide is still the biggest cause of death and I believe it is directly related to work.
This is my 3rd day calling in sick. I have been at this job for a year, and man do I hate it. I admit, at times its good to know I have a job. But I think the problem is not work, but myself, as I felt the same in the previous two jobs I held. (I am 31). One I left after 4 yrs, the other I left too after 6months, and this one now is getting to me. Trust me, I am lazy but not stupid. I can get the job done and yes, I do enjoy the challenge. But its the corporate fatcats and incompetent managers are the reasons for my sour attitude. I need my job, I want to like my job. But politics, low employee morale and false promises by managers are just getting to me. I give 8-10 hrs of my life to them 5 days a week, thats a lot of my life dedicated to them for my car payment and mortgage and other bills. And yet they ask for more..
And to the people who say our parents worked long hrs, un-appreciated and in other countries where people work without complaining, I dont think they know what the hell they are talking about. I come from a third world country, the last thing they like is their jobs. Its hell for them and they just keep it in , become slaves just so that they can get their daughters married to put their kids through school, not for the cars or material things we have here in West.
My colleague is such a lazy ass. She takes a lot of leaves…and leaves all the work for me to do.I hate her so much.
Writing as I think it:
I can’t take it anymore! We are all slaves to a piece of f–king paper! For what? For who? This entire concept of work is a f–ken bulls–t scheme. Think of it from a simple standpoint: all the people at the bottom suffer but those who employ the people who suffer are the ones who really benefit. They actually make the money from our f–king work. It’s f–ked up and needs to be fixed. Why do we do this? It’s beyond me and I haven’t even worked very much in my life. How can people live their entire lives doing something they don’t like doing day in, day out? I honestly don’t know if i’ll be able to make it in this system some times since I can’t understand and refuse to embrace this. It’s slavery. No matter how you f–ken look at it, SLAVERY! I get angered to the point that I just have to stop thinking about this and try to come up with things to occupy myself. It’s wrong. That’s it for me, no more thinking about this bulls–t. Off to la la land.
HI my name is Mark
I am not looking foward to my life, because my grandparents and my parents etc want me to make it big in life. I feel pressured and I have told them but they don’t listen. I have told therapists but it’s not working.
I feel suicidal because I am going to have to WORK for the rest of my LIFE. f–k!
My grandad who is now retired isn’t working anymore, but he said it took a long time for him to get to this stage to RETIRE he said his whole life has been hell trying to make a living!
I don’t wanna go through this till I am 70. Hell my grandad has worked so hard all his life, that HE IS TOO OLD to do the things that he wants to do, like travelling the world. He says that he doesn’t have the energy because of his age!
I MEAN FOR f–k SAKE WE WORK ALL OUR f–kEN LIVES AND THEN WHEN WE RETIRE WE ARE TOO OLD TO HAVE FUN BECAUSE WE AREN’T YOUNG ANYMORE!
BECAUSE WE HAVE WORKED OUR WHOLE LIVES f–k GOODNESS SAKE!
f–k WHAT’S THE BLOODLY POINT WHAT IS THE BLOODY POINT f–k!
BY THE TIME YOU RETIRE YOU ARE TOO OLD TO HAVE FUN!
Mark, my mom and grandparents did the same thing to me. But I think they’ve realized by now that it ain’t gonna happen! lol! It’s YOUR life, YOU need to live it as you see fit. It will cause problems with your family, hell they might even disown you. Which would suck. Cause some people can’t understand why we don’t want to slave away our lives. The thing I could never understand about my family is that why don’t they just want me to be happy? Do I really have to make $100k a year, too?
Work is f–king stupid.
Lady j is right bro, but your also right this system is wrong, how did it come to this?
Mark, maybe the problem is that we’ve bought into commercialized ideas of what our lives are supposed to be like.
When that doesn’t happen, we think there’s something wrong with us. Never mind that 87% of the population lives like we live. We see a glamorized version of life on TV and get bitter when ours is nowhere near that.
Maybe your life won’t turn out like you think it will now. Maybe it will be considerably better. Give it a chance. Maybe you will be pleasantly surprised. Live one day at a time.
(Ok, you can slap me now, LOL)
I’m thinking of just running an ad for an in home repair business in a couple publications areound here. I work at night so have my days free (somewhat). Keep the ad in all year long, and if anything comes from it, comes from it. Maybe if I keep it up for a couple years i’ll get a decent customer base started and I can quit my job. I think the key is to not have high expectations of getting rich quick and keeping patient and persistent with the advertising.
I can’t keep this working for others, trapped in a building bulls–t up for another 35 years. I have to try somethin.
Even if I got hired at a high paying job around here (unlikely in this city, even with a degree), i’d probably still hate the s–t.
If only I could get my dream job of rubbing down hot women in oil for photo shoots…
work is absolutely soul destroyin!!!! i end up starin at the clock all day waitin to escape!!! maybe if i had a job i liked it wouldnt be so bad but does such a thing even exist??? ROLL ON THE WEEKEND!!!!!!
Dirk, you have a dream at least for a business which would mean that you wouldn’t be stuck working for assholes. I think you should go ahead and at least try it, pick up work for weekends at first, then move on from there. If you had to spend another 35 years working the way you are, you will be brain dead for sure. We weren’t meant to do that s–t.
Here we go again. Sunday night sadness, just waiting for the Monday misery to set in. Great, cant wait to go back to work for another week of ‘fun’ and ‘success’. Still, at least I have my faithful friend (alcohol) next to me keeping me chipper until I go to sleep.
All the best for tomorrow guys & girls, coz if you’re on this site then you feel just the same as me.
Sunday night – 23.20 – boy do i feel depressed. back to work after three whole weeks… i know i got a ton of emails waiting for me, two managers who i hate because of their attitude problems. I am a graduate been working two months and have surely decided that working for someone else / corporate environment is not for me. dont get me wrong – i am very fortunate to be in this position but to be honest i rather be working 12 hour days for myself
I cant face going in to see those bunch of “*^!s – you have to spend 40 hrs a week with those blasted people is it too m uch to ask that you pull together to make life easier for each other? obviously it is. bastards
Sincerely, I feel for you all.
Yep, Sunday night-feeling depressed as always. Why do we live this way? It is a WASTE of a beautiful life we all could live, by enjoying the simple pleasures in life. I hate work, i hate everyone at work, i do not want to talk to anyone at work, ughhh.
THere has to be another way to enjoy this life in a comfortable way other than going to work 5 days out of 7. If anyone has figured it out, please share.
I hate this time of the year- its frickin cold and dreary, and the holidays are over- and no more work holidays (unless you take a personal day, but I dont take those til summer)- until lo and behold, May 25th. God help us. Why do we do torture ourselves?
Sorry for everyone that has to return Monday, myself included… At least we are all in the same boat, and share it with each other. I wish there was a way out of it though, I am a smart man, but have yet to find a way. Perhaps there is no easy answer, as the corporate hell houses have it all sown up for us, so we cannot escape. Any ideas anyone?
Solutions:
– Welfare (bye bye house, significant other, Car,…)
– Vagabond, fancy word for bum
– Suicide (if you believe in heaven,bonus points for you)
– Part-time (bye bye material things)
– Criminal activities
– X-Factor= win lottery, marry rich, 2012
– Self sacrifice, life insurance for those you love.
– Do drugs, Alcohol and Escape to a magical world every evening and weekends!
– Spit out the red pill and pretend that work is wonderfull, be positive and imagine you are not a slave, Society is NOT a beautiful lie.
I just can’t bear work….
I am just curious as to what everybody does as their occupation on this site?
I’ll start off by saying i’m in accounting, and i hate every passing second of it.
beerengine – Administration, general office/reception – I like the work but hate the people; horrible evil s–tey spiteful malicious cunts the lot of them.
IT Coordinator, a hateful job, all the trappings of management, with none of the pay. Overloaded, used up and pissed off…
customer service at a communication company. i advise anyone against accepting a work which requires you to find their missing phone bills or why the flying f–k is my phone not working. Its stressful and im already having ulcer just answering to people’s complains all the time. Im planning to get my masters and go teach kids than develop some form of depression in life later on.
Used to do accounts payable/receivable, past couple years has been administrative assistant type s–t. boring as f–king hell and meaningless. paper pusher, busy work, peon. been making jewelry the past two years and finally started selling some, made $400 from it ($260 profit) in December. Plan on transitioning to that as my full time job. That is, if this s–tty economy doesn’t stop people from buying non-essential goods.
I hate my f–king boss. She lives me dumb ass post it notes all over the place, she’s a control freak, when she eats, get this — she moans like she’s having sex, she also smacks, blows her nose loudly several times a day, brushes her hair and there are hairballs all over the f–king office, even on my chair (WTF!). Damn I f–king hate her. Okay enough pettiness (I try hard not to be petty).
Red Pill: you left out short term disability, which is what I have been hoping for. I don’t care if I’m broke ass with holes in my clothes, at least I won’t be working for tha man (or tha bitch).
I started out as a drafter or draftsman in 1974 and worked my way up in my old company to the position of Engineering Assistant (went to work nights and got 2 year degree in Civil Eng.). Lost that job after 23 years due to downsizing. Got a federal job making maps. Don’t use a tenth of the knowledge or education I have. Very, very, very bored.
This area doesn’t offer much, plus has an active good-old-boys network that I don’t belong to.
I started off in electronics fault finding. Now I work as an IT technician for a kids prison….
Imagine a legitimate ‘Jonestown” lead by a legitimate leader- no cuckoos, no cult- just people wanting to get away. With the technology 30 years later- we could do it. I would join.
Hi Howie, very interesting topic mate. I watched that whole saga on a documentary last week, and it was pretty frightening how much power he had over so many people. I think if you get the wrong person in charge, it can seriously go wrong. Absolute power corrupting absolutely etc, etc. However, with some intelligent, caring, community minded folks it could certainly be worked at. I think at this stage, I would probably go to, and I would work hard just to try to create a piece of paradise on this earth.
Why do we consistently get it wrong??
Everybody I have spoken to since Christmas and New Year look absolutely depressed and devasted at returning to work, funny eh! The season of good will, there’s times I think to myself at the most basic level we create most technology is for entertainment, necessity or lazyness. Weird how we are all slaves to the machines we created hmmm.
I work for the N.H.S and i HATE it. Back at work for 12hrs tomorrow day and then working both Saturday and Sunday night. I must be one of the few people in the world actually looking forward to Monday morning lol.
Sunday……
Sunday…the calm before the storm.
Howie, Simon – You would have to constantly monitor what type of people get into the community so you wouldn’t end up with too many assholes that would screw it all up over time.
I’ve often thought of living in some type of place where the community works together for common purpose, with no one working 40hour slave jobs.
Hey Dirk, yes, the problem would always be the quality of the people in any given community. However, even when you interview people, they can turn out differently to what you thought they might be like. The essential problem with those types of communities, is that they are fragile and very easy to stuff up. They rely on an enormous amount of goodwill and trust. Insert one psychotic leader type and it would quickly turn to shxt. Unfortunately…
I didn’t go in, rang in sick…
On the “community”, the best thing would be, you could leave at anytime.
I was sorely tempted to call in sick, but.. I called in sick 2 days out of 4 last week (well, I really was sick, had a horrible cold) – and I just got a HUGE raise (I’m part time so it doesn’t take much, lol!). Anyhoo, I still goofed off most the day.
Anyway, I am totally for a commune-type thing. I read something a while back, some community in Washington or Oregon somewhere, no one had to work full-time and they provided food and house and basic internet and TV for everyone. It CAN be done! I’ll try and find that article and post it here.
I tell you everyone, try not to spend to much cash. The whole financial structure is built on sand, it’s just not reality. Hopefully it will crash globally and we could live free natural lives, without this slavery…
the system is weak right now, a perfect time for a collective consciousness raiser. The political and financial elites are propping it up but it can easily be taken down by the public, this would require breaking the conditioning of self interest in this context through dissemination of alternative information, to illustrate how unjust the system is, the coup will succeed! (I want to be a revolutionary lol).
Corona radiata is spot on!!!! It’s a control system and it’s failing that same pound coin or dollar bill just goes round and round in circles forever, while the so called elite claim the tax off it! Your money, think about it isn’t even real it’s held on microchips on a credit card or in a bank. Just a few electrical pulses!!!! Totally ridicules concept, now the general public have no money to spend because of so much credit/borrowing they are running scared what can they do print money and make us spend it and then tax it….nope they can’t and they no it. Lets see them do a 12 or 8 hour day just to get two s–t days off, where your body is so f–ked and stressed they wonder why people drink and take drugs!!! To escape this reality of pain and be free within there own minds!!!
thanks dude. I’m hearing a lot of comments these days that times are tough, take what you can, be grateful for having a job. I guess there are two ways of looking at it, yes one would be grateful if they are in debt and its logical for them to take what they can. However I can’t help but think there is something so servile about thinking in this way. Like be a good dog and you might get rewarded. We’re being treated like slaves but under a different banner. But one is only a slave if they believe it. The system rewards injustice, its better than whats gone before, we more rights and so on but its the progeny of the primitive era in human development when ignorance and lack of knowledge allowed the ruthless to rise to the top. Ruthlessness is not remotely a good quality despite what the media might sometimes want us to believe. When asked about how he could account for the global recession, George Bush used a tone of voice akin to one of these neo nazis a documentary maker named Louis Theroux interviewed, ie he sounded very contemptuous. His arrogance is misplaced though because his administration pretty much encouraged laissez faire capitalism. In addition to the Iraq war, the offences at guantanamo, he and members of his administration should be prosecuted and given life sentences. They just let 911 happen. I don’t believe the conspiracy theories but I suspect they knew it was coming and did nothing as it served their interests and those of wider international community of elites, China, Britain etc. The system can be changed, we just need to remove the mechanisms that reward stupidity, ignorance, politicking, ruthlessness, greed and so on. Granted these are human traits, but they’re encouraged right now and this is the problem. .
I have been seriously wanting to die. I had a major fight with my grandparents because they are angry because I’m not working. I hate work I always end up fighting with people, because they are always mean to me. Like in the morning they will be ok and then in the afternoon they wanna kill you. I almost hit my boss and have had 10 jobs in the last year. I’m not trying to create attention, but I don’t want to go through all that bulls–t, and with my grandparents giving me a hard time- well I will probably end up killing myself soon and then they wont have me, and I hope it hurts them, bloodly wankers of grandparents!
I am 20 years old and I can’t take it anymore!
Hey Lady J what is your hotmail.
It would be good if we were pen pals.
I live with my parents and wont ever talk to my grandparents again I hope, as they give me hell about work all the time. I don’t drink or smoke and I hardly have any friends because I have aspergers syndrome. I look normal and act normal, but with my aspergers syndrome I am extremely sensitive to the way people talk to me, which is my downfall!
I may as well die and not exsist!
The only thing that is stopping me from killing myself right now, is because I want to go to outer space one day and fly to mars.
I have been wanting to be an adventure tour guide, as that is my last option, but because I have aspergers syndrome which makes me sensitive to the way people talk to me, as I get to the point of almost breaking down and crying, It makes it hard for me to do this. I feel like it is my last option!
It you guys knew what I have been through job wise since I have left school, man I tell ya it’s horrible!
I hope you guys don’t think I am a idot.
Nah man, I share the same aspiration, I too want to go into space. A far flung fantasy is that one day humanity will be revolutionized with a new discovery, will make first contact with benign aliens, and due to a shortage in personnel will take on people outside the traditional bounds of physics, aeronautics, to work in a new fleet of ships. I’ll join and within 10 years will be captain of a starship. Ok so I badly want star trek to happen and its just a daydream but if prices drop I would sacrifice all my money to be a space tourist, to go up there and experience the universe in a more fundamental state.
Suicide is proof of life.
You know you hate your job when you enjoy getting the flu. Anything that takes you away from LooneyLand…. is your friend.
How quickly do weeknights go? And of course the classic Sunday afternoon/evening which is officially the fastest period of time known to man.
I too love Star Trek, that program should be our inspiration. They work to explore, they have no money and they work to better themselves not to get richer than the next guy…..
LC, not only does time fly when you are away from work, it also goes through a trans dimensional warping and utterly slows down when you are AT work.. I am positive that the hallway clock here actually stopped yesterday around 3pm. I could swear this is true!
eight hour days are a trap, and they have been deliberately constructed to keep us occupied so we do not have time to think about any important issues. Anyone care to speculate as to how far this capitalist free fall is actually going to go? The constant boom bust cycles are surely evidence that it is not working. Read some of John Zerzans work, brilliant man.
Simon you are spot on man!!!
LC
You are so right man. I feel like I just got home, and its already fricking 9 pm.
I live in New Zealand, what country do you guys live?
I would have to say FRIDAY IS FANTASTIC SO IS SATURDAY
BUT… SUNDAY Especially Sunday Afternoons are so depressing, because everyone faces work the next day!
It is especially horrible when you have to hop into bed early on Sunday night. The feeling is just so horrible, it feels like I am in a coffin!
IT’S LIKE WE ARE ALL ROBOTS!
Location: Australia, Perth
Hey BeerEng, Star Trek is great, just watched the entire seasons 1 & 2 recently, whilst being off from work sick. Decent values, and a better time methinks.
Sunday night is to be dreaded, and it is unpleasant not only because Monday is staring you in the face, but also because you are taking up your valuable weekend time thinking about work… Weeknights evaporate even faster than weekends, and most days you are too stuffed to do anything decent due to work.
Illnesses are to be embraced, and you should take as much time as possible to get better! I would also prefer the flu to any time at work..
location australia,nsw
im 19 recently got my first ever job working at a supermarket stocking the shelves working 4 days a week, boy i cant wait till days and like others to i get that feeling of dread on sunday.
my boss had a whine because im up in the lunch room for a few mins every hour getting a drink hello im not going to dehydrate myself??? now there trying to get me to work more but ill say no i like having personal time and to enjoy life and thats final!!
one thing that will forever elude me is starting so early in the morning. Last year I had to get up at 7 (I know thats nothing compared to people who get up at 5 or 6), to be in work at 9.30. I had to teach classes until 5.45, normally I finish at 5.30 ish. Would have one 10 min break after the first class, a 30 min lunch and another 10 mins in the evening. Then I would get back at 7.30. I nearly went insane. I was continually exhausted, experienced an hallucination (saw a fly in the middle of february) and was beginning to feel sickness on a system wide level. I’d say a large part of it was getting up so early in the morning. I can’t cognitively function getting up at that hour. It should be a 4- 6 hour work day with flexitime imo.
I’m in the U.S. Please don’t hold it against me, lol!
Am with you all on Star Trek! I am an uber nerd. Fiancee and I watched the whole Voyager season last year, now we are watching the Deep Space Nine series. Love it. What a way to live!
I’m from the UK, LadyJ I love Voyager, it’s the way forward long live Seven OF Nine!!!! But seriously, for example driving lessons in England are roughly one hour, why? Because the human brain can’t concentrate efficiently after one hour, its science fact. So why the hell are we expected to give our ALL for eight hours and more?????
I just dont think there even exists a job that anyone really wants to do. I feel like that guy in office space who just wants to do nothing. I have only been working full time for two years, (part time for 10 years) and I originally liked my job. Within the past 3 months I just hate everything about working in general. Even if I went another avenue I would probably get sick of it in a year again. ITS NEVER ENDING!!!!!!
work is a soul sucking trap, I don’t believe any full time job is truly rewarding. Office jobs in particular, which seem to be the same wherever you go, and involve the same drudgery and boredom. Humans weren’t meant to be doing any of that sort of stuff, and we certainly didn’t evolve to be office jerks. All I can say is ‘PC Load Letter’ WTF
Hey people
I notice people looking at me, wondering why isn’t he at work, and it stresses me out!
What should I do?
I’m so burned out by Friday- I don’t have energy to do anything, except watch TV. I’m pretty sure I have S.A.D (seasonal depression)- I pretty much hibernate in the winter- especially with this cold spell.
so.. its the busiest time of year at my company. im delirious, pissed, have headaches everyday… is
anyone working 6 days a week or 55 hrs + right now? they even tried talking me into working a double shift.. 16 hrs.
no thanks, ill pass–sorry i like my life too much. s–t.
Mark – f–k ’em. Who cares what they think. Seriously. For all they know you are a millionaire and don’t have to work a day in your life! lol
“Arbeit macht frei”. Work makes ones free, written at the entrance of a nazi concentraition camp. (says enough about work:s)
I’m glad you talking about sci-fi, it’s actually one of my many great escapes to an universe where there is meaning and there are adventures instead of soulcrushing jobs and pointlessness.
Thankyou Lady J
I like to run
My hotmail is
[email protected]
I haven’t been working at the moment because I have had a knee operation, because I twisted my knee jumping off a swing!
I have had a ACL reconstuction and lateral mencius repair.
I am not looking foward to working.soon, but the break is very unstressful. It must suck being so cold in America at the moment!
Lady J we should defintiely be pen pals
I haven’t been working at the moment because I have had a knee operation, because I twisted my knee jumping off a swing!
I have had a ACL reconstuction and lateral mencius repair.
I am not looking foward to working.soon, but the break is very unstressful. It must suck being so cold in America at the moment!
Lady J we should defintiely be pen pals
SORRY I POSTED TWICE PAGE HAD TROUBLE LOADING!
work is kind of like school in a way, a lot of jobs require a dress code=uniform, there’s an incentive to go to bed early to get up early, the majority of work places are based on an authoritarian structure=teachers/rules. I hated school, it was like prison, 5 years in secondary, 5 years of my life wasted in a way. Most people have nightmares of sitting the final exams, to me that was my escape. Went to university, everyone does their own thing, lecturers are enlightened waheey!, free thought and a relaxed atmosphere prevalent. University was paradise.
No real responsibility in college Corona. No need to get up at 6:30 every morning. No need to sit in an 8-hour prison cell every day. Can we go back??
Man my grandparents are giving me hell and I am not going to talk to them anymore.
People is it normal for a 20 year old to not be working and not want to work because of the stress and depression that comes with a job?
Two new managers at my job, and they both are idiots and don’t know what they’re doing. I asked them a question the other day and they both ignored me and kept talking to each other, which was a pointless conversation that had nothing to do with work. It took all the restraint I had to not punch their faces in. I would probably just end up beating them both to death and hiding their bodies in the never ending snow that keeps piling up here. The thing is, my anger is getting so pent up and bad, I’m almost not even joking about that scenario.
And Mark, yeah it’s normal. You just have to beat work into your head untill you can endure it a little bit more. That’s all you can do. I didn’t start working a full time job till 20, and I couldn’t stand it. I jumped from job to job for 7 years looking for something that I didn’t hate, and for the last five i’ve been working at a job part time that I can only just “tolerate”. But something has been nagging on me more lately and making me really want to quit. But I can’t, so i’m stuck for now…
Oh yeah, I probably also have the biggest W2 collection of anyone here.
my grandpa once told me that his people lived off the land. the only thing they needed to buy was salt and oil. that was around 1930’s. nowadays we work in an office environment, where our work mates are dumb, customers scream at us even if its NOT our faults and our manager/dickhead gets ALL the credit for OUR HARD WORK.
sure it was hard back then during my grandpa’s time, but why am i the one feeling jealous about it? my grandpa lived till he was 96. never once he did office work and complain on the old days. he lived life to the fullest and me i feel like total crap.
what happened to us?
Sunday morning.. already had a pang of anxiety thinking about work tomorrow. Last week my boss told me she was going to organize my desk this week. WTF!? Don’t most people set up their own desk and keep it organized? I mean it’s not messy, at all. So WTF!?
Sunday night again, the long dark tea time of the soul! Just had a weeks holiday and a great weekend in London, and now once more, the spectre of work stares me in the face again. Recently I have been reading some books about Neolithic and Mesolithic hunters. Life back then may have been hard, but my god, it sounds alot better then working like we do now. I bet they did not dread Monday morning lol. Oh well, roll on Friday.
I can’t do it again tomorrow…..
I’ve been working since I was 13, I’ve made my money but I’ve made no life! I’m so bored with working no matter what it is, I’m tired of it. I hate rude customers, managers that think they are the s–t but aren’t worth s–t. The higher up getting away with whatever they get away with when the lower people get cut off. We get treated like s–t so they can look better.. HEL NO!
I go to work in the morning, my boyfriend goes in work when I get out, and when he gets out I’m in bed! So really what kinda life is that? I’ve always dreamed living in the 40’s where I’d have to handwash my own clothes. Why does life have to more complicated than it should be? I hope there is no afterlife and I can stay in heaven, then I’ll be living the way life should be.
The truth is, that the way we work now is not worth it at all. All the consumer goodies we buy to make ourselves happier, are just another drug fix in disguise. Unfortunately, we buy so much trash, that we have to work to pay for the trash we need to keep ourselves happy (for the time being).
The only job I actually enjoyed was when I was a contractor, and hadn’t sold myself to any one company. Everytime I work for anyone full time, I feel trapped and frustrated.
It’s already Monday, and each week is just the same as the other, puncutated by a couple of days in between which fly by so fast, I can’t remember them!
suck it up people!
If reincarnation is real I don’t wont to come back as a human being again, never. I would rather be a cat or a bird so I can be free…
beerengine, I agree with you. Who wants to be a human slave, I would rather take my chances with animal kingdom predators, than be a slave for the rest of my life. Their lives may be short, but who cares…..
Beer-
You got it my friend- I’m thinking coming back as a dog- you get fed, your belly rubbed, and don’t need toilet paper. oh, and you get to lay around all day- and not be chastised for it…
man i dream of winning the lottery not having to work a day of my life away no more please come true!!! holiday break on Friday 2 weeks off but unfortanetly fun never lasts then it is back to the fluoro light prison for the rest of the year.
About being reincarnated as an animal, it’s just luck being born as a dog that goes to a rich home, or a dog that born on the street or goes to an abusive home. Just like luck about where you’re born as a human. But I see your point, i’d come back as a bird and go through a hundred deaths as one, than come back and do this s–t again. It feels so pointless.
I’d like to have been born as a super advanced alien or a human in the future when they have gene treatment to make people live indefinitely and ftl travel (assuming). Its mind bending when you think about it, you could have been born as anyone else at any other time, or you may never have existed at all.
If they could make us last for ever they’d have us working for ever.
Everyone try to get out of it, they’re mad pimping us
Check this out, in England people are living to long and we are becoming an elderly population that is not reproducing fast enough due to economics. What’s the governments solution, make people retire at 70! WTF, so now we could potentially work until we drop down dead!!!! Their reason, the skill base acquired is so useful to the UK and people are living longer anyway!!!!! I want to see all the high and mighty get off their butts and joins us in this work based marathon to our deaths, you reckon, yeah no chance pal!!!! If alien abduction is real, please, please, please take me away, from this hell to somewhere better, let me explore the universe with you..
I often wonder, why are we enslaved in this work nonsense, if we are working for a some goal a better life what the hell is it. Better food for example what junk food or food that is smothered in plastic giving us cancer and reducing sperm counts? Better medicine but the bugs are coming more resistant and if we lived off the land anyway our immune systems would e stronger and we would be generally fitter naturally without having to exercise, this why exercise is so laborious and unnatural to most people, because you wouldn’t do it naturally in nature left to your own devices. Even our technology is useless for every great invention there’s a price we didn’t think ahead about! The so called modern way of life just doesn’t work, greed creates greed people are forced to buy crap they don’t want through brain washing (advertising) and getting enslaved by debt to keep the system moving. So called primitive tribes have existed for millenia without this greed system. It’s this system causing global warming,world wide recession,virtual one world government and monetary system,murder,rape,greed. This system brings out the WORST in human beings, half the planet is overweight, over worked,diseased by life style and in living debt. The other half is over worked in famine and diseased by relative poverty, this defied all logic. The ONLY reason WE are rich and living longer is because THEY are poor and dying younger and THEY have all the natural resources of the planet, sounds like some kind of sick genocide to me, I tell you. Obama, Bush, Brown, Blair they never ran the show, they’re just the face for people who sit in the shadows who truly run the planet and these people are sick, sick, sick. power mad greedy and disgusting filth and the state of the planet and us reflects them. Just like how sicko rapists and peodo’s have sick nasty crap in their rooms that reflects their mental outlook the state of the planet earth reflects all global leaders, religious or other wise. The mmek will inherit the earth, this is prophecy give the Earth back to the people, as it was in the damn first place!!!!!
I often wonder, why are we enslaved in this work nonsense, if we are working for a some goal a better life what the hell is it. Better food for example what junk food or food that is smothered in plastic giving us cancer and reducing sperm counts? Better medicine but the bugs are coming more resistant and if we lived off the land anyway our immune systems would e stronger and we would be generally fitter naturally without having to exercise, this why exercise is so laborious and unnatural to most people, because you wouldn’t do it naturally in nature left to your own devices. Even our technology is useless for every great invention there’s a price we didn’t think ahead about! The so called modern way of life just doesn’t work, greed creates greed people are forced to buy crap they don’t want through brain washing (advertising) and getting enslaved by debt to keep the system moving. So called primitive tribes have existed for millenia without this greed system. It’s this system causing global warming,world wide recession,virtual one world government and monetary system,murder,rape,greed. This system brings out the WORST in human beings, half the planet is overweight, over worked,diseased by life style and in living debt. The other half is over worked in famine and diseased by relative poverty, this defied all logic. The ONLY reason WE are rich and living longer is because THEY are poor and dying younger and THEY have all the natural resources of the planet, sounds like some kind of sick genocide to me, I tell you. Obama, Bush, Brown, Blair they never ran the show, they’re just the face for people who sit in the shadows who truly run the planet and these people are sick, sick, sick. power mad greedy and disgusting filth and the state of the planet and us reflects them. Just like how sicko rapists and peodo’s have sick nasty crap in their rooms that reflects their mental outlook the state of the planet earth reflects all global leaders, religious or other wise. The meek will inherit the earth, this is prophecy, give the Earth back to the people, as it was in the damn first place!!!!!
http://www.vnunet.com/vnunet/news/2234253/value-uk-tech-deals-jumps-ten
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/education/article5555797.ece
http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2009/jan/21/binge-drinking-pregnancy
http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2009/jan/21/binge-drinking-pregnancy
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/7837024.stm
The Great A
You are so right
OH MAN
I hope recincartion is not real
Hell that would be madness!
People say that money doesn’t buy happiness.
Hell yes it does. I saved a lot of money once and just lived off that for a while going oversees and it was great.
I believe the people with money are just boring people like BILL GATES!
If I were bill gates I would start up my own space travel company and fly to other planets!
I mean what good is money, like Bill Gates, if it just sits in there till you die!
I SO HOPE REINCARNATION IS NOT REAL.
I AM f–kING SERIOUS!
I AM FREAKING OUT ABOUT IT.
I HOPE WHEN WE DIE our spirit comes out of us, I am bloodly hoping, because if I kill myself from hating work, well I hope my spirit comes out of me!
IF I WERE BILL GATES I WOULD START UP MY OWN SPACE TRAVEL COMPANY.
I WOULD SPEND HEAPS OF MONEY.
The people with lots of money are boring.
But us…
we definitely know what we will do with it, wont we spacey people!
I love outer space, my dream!
I definitely understand what people are saying.
My grandad has worked and is now retired at 70, but he is to exhausted to travel the world, which he has always wanted to do.
I feel really sad for my grandad, I REALLY BLOODLY DO!
THIS WORLD AND LIFE WE LIVE IS f–kED!!!!
I had one person say to me, winning the lottery would be more trouble than it’s worth, and he wouldn’t want to win. Uhh, you must be joking or retarded. I can deal with freinds family and organizations begging me for money all the time a lot easier than I can doing this repetitve bulls–t. Besides, most people I wouldn’t want finding me wouldn’t anyways. The trobules of being rich are a lot easier to deal with than the troubles of being poor, or working to survive, whatever you wanna call it. As a matter of fact, i’m gonna play the powerball today, even if the chance is practically non-existant that I win, I at least know that a microscopic bit of hope is out there.
Anyone care to comment on why we wish over forty hours of our lives away? That’s the one thing I am really tired of, losing 5 out of 7 days of every valuable week, just to pay for a house, food, bills and other ‘essentials’.
Whoever set this up must really hate human life.
You’re so burned out by Friday. It’s really one day out of seven. Sunday goes by in 2 seconds. Yet the work week lasts like two years.
On the lottery thing- that person(s) in Nassau, NY who won the 22M mega $ was thinking this same thing a week ago .. look where that person(s) is today- you gotta play to win.
Greetings all, been reading this forum for some time now and I have to agree with alot of the sentiments on here!
Work in moderation can be alright, occasionally interesting and rewarding. HOWEVER I work as a management accountant and the amount of shit reports I have to churn out to constant deadlines 5 days a week can get pretty depressing if you are not strong minded!
Top that off with the bullshit supressive atmosphere I work in where people are too afraid to be themselves and have a laugh occasionally – really frustrates me… it’s basically wage slavery which ever way you dress it up, unless you can run your own business.
I’ve been doing it for a couple of years and all the ambitions I once had have all but evaporated due to the soul destroying drudgery of this working environment which drains me mentally and you get very little thanks for anything good you do (just mistakes highlighted).
Thankfully there is one other guy in my department I can chat too about how things are because we both hate it equally!
Anyway enough negativity for now, I’ve got shit do to! 🙁
Hope things work out for everyone..
I want to be an Electrician. I think the hatred most people have with work – i.e service industry work, you are either standing or sitting in the same spot doing the same thing over and over again. What you did yesterday is the same thing you do today and the samrt money says you will be doing tomorrow and 10 years from now. My experiance with call centre work is one person screaming in your ear while one of your idiot co-workers is incessantly clicking a pen. To top it all off the environment despite being throughly politically correct, is one of nasty backstabbing bullying. To be a tradesman, you get to move about, think for yourself and progress up the ladder the more experiance you get. The only thing is I’ve been unemployed for 2.5 years now – I had to quit the call centre job I was in because the level of stress was giving me pains in my chest and arm – 26! the job centre wont help either – the closest thing they could offer me as a trade was shelf stacking!!! WTF! Maybe I should cut out the middle man and the next 40 odd years and just take a razor to my wrists!
Everyone watch William Cooper (RIP after being murdered by the police) on youtube.
You will see how you/we are all part of an economic organised slavery. (You could also read Science a History by John Gribbin, to see how the government have always employed the best economists, mathematicians and psycologists for hundreds of years).
The upset you all feel is real, the things you feel are real, your thought of “this can’t be right” is real, the only problem is how do you get out of it?
I suggest thinking of any or all alternatives, when you get out of the environment you find you can think for yourself again, and your confidence increases.
Something very nasty is going on and it’s not an accident. Read this with an open mind, I’m not joking but trying to help you.
http://jonesview.wordpress.com/2008/03/04/people-who-dont-want-to-work/
The comments are interesting:)
Those comments are interesting, I was expecting unanimous agreement.
Anyway a lot of what people are saying here is redolent of Kaczynsky, wiki him, he’s a certified wacko but interesting to read about nonetheless.
We have so much power as a united front, this is why elites employ a divide and conquer strategy to keep us complacent, partly with our own consent of course!
Alan is right about trades, it would be much preferable to be working with a trade skill, than to be office bound. You are set with some skills for life, and there are always requirements for skilled trades people. Office jobs come and go, and the requirement to be stuck in an orifice really makes most office jobs suck badly. Call Centre work would probably be amongst the worst, and I can well imagine the politics and constant pressures.
For Craig, can you give us a short run down of the contents of ‘Science a History”? What was the most interesting part?
Yes, Ted Kascynski, a certified loon, but also had some interesting thoughts. John Zerzan was a confidant of his, and he is also an interesting man to read.
Its Friday and I’m burnt. Too tired to do anything, except sit here and vent. It’s never ending.
I am sat at work as i write this. 02:32am Sunday morning and i am trapped in this fluoresent tomb of a building for another 4.5 hrs, with another 12hrs to look forward to tomorrow night. By Monday morning i will have worked 60hrs this week. I am burnt out and fed up. Never thought things would turn out like this when i was younger.
How about we all hang ourselves.
While we all do it we can video record our selves to show to world that we aren’t going to take this working madness any longer!
We will be famous
But..
I wish…
There is this movie called the beach with
leonardo dicaprio and they live off the land!
cool movie must see, makes me really jealous
“How about we all hang ourselves.
While we all do it we can video record our selves to show to world that we aren’t going to take this working madness any longer!”
I have thought about it, in more than one occasion…
Sometimes it the purposley crashing the car in a pole at about 100 miles an hour on the way to work…
sometimes I just think of taking a gun…
But I eventually get over it, but for how much longer…
And I don’t even work 40 hours a week.
It’s sunday night…god help us for the 50 hours that we are endure..(adding in lunch and commute of course)
Yep- Sunday night here, dreading this entire week. ahh- there has to be a better way to this pointless life.
Monday morning is here! Only an hour til I head off for the ‘joy’ of work. Oh well, only another 50 years or so and itll all be over.
Sunday night = Insomnia (due to dreading the work week). Monday morning = miserable due to being so tired. Came in this morning (called in sick last Thursday, i really was sick though – 3rd cold in less than 2 months, must be the stress or something). Anyway so my desk is covered with notes my boss left me. She couldn’t even put a fricking stamp on an envelope! WTF.
Anyhow. Racking my brain for any/all ways out of this mind-numbing torture. I’m smart, I really am, I just really want to come in, do the stupid work, and leave. When I was a kid, you finish early and you get to play or read or something. Grow up and find out, if you finish early, you get more fricking work!!! WTF.
Am starting my Art degree this semester. I already have a B.S. in Psychology, not that it’s gotten me anywhere. But I love Art and hope that I’ll be able to teach someday. At the college level – so I can teach like a couple classes and that’s it. I love school and learning. I know there is bullshit that comes with every job, though…. would any job really be any different?
Oh God, help me please!
I just can’t handle this existence….
I can’t take this, for the rest of my life…
Lots of despair here, unfortunately, I believe we are all in the same boat. Possibly it is related to intellect, and that makes it all the more difficult to spend your time in a mind numbing job. I have often thought of a telegraph pole whilst in the car, and other less savoury ways of despatching myself. We had a long weekend here in Oz, and it absolutely flew by. Seriously, it seemed even shorter than a normal weekend! Still, at least we didn’t have the normal Sunday night torture, it was Monday night instead.
I want a mass movement to implement some changes to the working week. Five days is no longer acceptable, and reducing the working week would make more employment for others right?
I have been trying to think of ways out of this hell for years, and I truly consider myself pretty switched on. My trouble is that I am reluctant to rip anyone off, and hate selling stuff, apart from the fruits of my brain output. Which sort of sucks, and reduces the opportunities.
The only thing I have to look forward to more of the same shit. I wish I had a broken leg or something.
Conforming sucks. Lets all move to Mendocino County, CA and grow weed- just saw a special on CNBC. Fascinating. Now these people are LIVING.
hey alan. i know what you mean by getting yelled at. i suffer from chest pains as well due to stress.
tell me something guys. is there anything that we do makes us feel alive anymore? i really miss that feeling.
i feel like im numb most of the time. and get this m starting to believe that 90% of the human race are dumb and the other ten are slowly dying.
what happened to us?
“is there anything that we do makes us feel alive anymore?”
That’s what I would like to know. Seems when you were a kid/teenager, things could be fun and exciting. Holidays, vacations, simple things could make you feel good. Now holidays come by, and I don’t care. Doubt i’ll be able to vacation anytime soon, and if I did I would wanna kill myself at the thought of coming back to this. Half of the time my constant lack of sleep make me feel depressed, irritated, and zombie-like so I never look forward to much of anything anymore. The thought of even going out now for the evening even bores me.
And Simon, I know what you’re saying about getting out of work by making money for yourself. I want to do it an honest way without nagging people to buy something, forcing things on people, or ripping them off, which seems to be a lot of tactics for many businesses. Maybe i’m just too ethical to run a business like a greedy heartless business man. Like many of the people we work for.
Anyways, what was my point, i dunno
cold front coming in, and rain! It might freeze tonight!!! If it does, we might not have to go to work tomorrow. It is sad how hard I’m hoping this will happen… keep your fingers crossed for me!
Where do you live that they would cancel work because of that?
I live in central Texas. It rarely freezes here, never snows (nothing that sticks anyway), so it’s just not safe to drive when it does. Our cities don’t have equipment to clear the roads, or even salt them. So everything just closes till it melts. That last time it happened was a couple years ago.
When I was a kid, I was so happy just with the simplest things in life, playing outside in the sun, eating simple food just watching things move and grow in nature. Then they send you to school, thats when the mind programming starts ” What you going to do when you leave school?” if they told me how bloody painful it would be and that I would be in a rat race until the die I more or less died. I would of made sure I left and emigrated to one of those ‘primitive tribes’ or whatever or gone to some community who live off the land in one with nature…
Don’t despair everyone, here is a cool cartoon
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ERbvKrH-GC4&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6wS5xOZ7Rq8&feature=related
There definitely seems to be a large gap between our lives as children and the ones we end up with as adults. I know your parents try and protect you as much as possible, but perhaps that isn’t the best thing for us as people. I had a great upbringing, in a small place, with lots of fun and enjoyment. I don’t think I was properly prepared as an adult for what I encountered. I was certainly not ready to give up most of my life to work, which unfortunately I saw my father do until his retirement.
I am now stuck with a job which has no enjoyment to it, responsibility which I am not paid for, and a huge array of bills and house payments which I cannot hope to pay off in the near or even distant future. Mortgages are a trap, which force us to keep occupied despite our wishes to do other things.
We are attempting to downsize at the moment, to reduce our outlays and provide us with the ability to have at least one of us at home. Currently, we both have to work.
I think the lack of excitement at every day things Dirk, is because you probably have become depressed by it all. I have no answer for that currently, if I did, I would be ok too! for ‘thegreatA’, there is a general lack of feeling alive because we are unhappy with our circumstances. I think in the UK, nearly one in six people are severely stressed by their work situations.
Not a great situation to be in.
No ice, had to come to work today… I feel cheated! lol
Simon, Beer, I agree with you both about being kids versus coming into adulthood and the ‘real’ world. I made good grades, was involved in school activities, honor roll, etc. Even throughout college. I thought that’s how working life would be, I thought I’d be successful and happy and involved. But now I see I’m just a working slave, my ‘keepers’ don’t care about my personal well-being or enjoyment. In fact whenever I told my previous bosses about things I did besides work – like if I was taking a jewelry class, or whatever – they acted like I was betraying the company somehow. If I wanted to be involved in my alumni association and go to the lunch meetings, they would act like I was asking if I could get out of work to go shopping or something. My teachers always talked about being a ‘well-rounded person’ but the employers don’t care about that.
They’re just brainwashed idiots. Slaveowners used to argue that their system was more humane than the capitalist wage labour alternative as they had human relationships with their slaves. Now I think slavery is disgusting but essentially imo, we live in a soft slave type society, soft because its possible to achieve escape velocity by becoming a millionaire. At the start of the 20th century there was a huge concerted effort to get people to work more hours. Its all about control, exhaust the populace so that they become disassociated from political life.
Managers are mostly the biggest brainwashed idiots, because they are the company’s biggest lapdog, and keep all the employees in line for the top dog money makers. Like everything you do should be thinking of is work, and like it should be the most important thing in your life. Wrong, it’s just important because I need the money, I don’t really care about the business and how much money you make or lose because of me or anyone else. Not my business, i don’t care if overall they fail. In fact, I kinda hope they do for being so greedy.
I should move to tibet and become a buddhist monk.
dudes you should check out this dude gerald celente on youtube, total doom merchant but he got the 87 stock market crash, the asian financial crisis and the fall of communism. He says there’s going to be food riots in the states, mass revolt etc.
I don’t think he’ll necessarily be proved right, economics is a very inexact science. He’s also not quantifying the capacity of people to prop up their way of life, exhibiting behaviour in a way conducive to economic recovery. That said mass revolt could bring very positive change.
We’ve all been to materialistic and now were paying the price. We worked for material gain and the world is on the brink of global disaster. All of our ancestors existed for thousands upon thousands of years in small communities supporting each other. Until this work,greed,gain as much as you can and stuff everyone else disease crept in. End of the day, when the world is a ball of fire, lets see money save us…. Obama, Brown and all the elite will be on Mars laughing at us as we struggled for nothing. Ever wondered why they are soooo interested in that planet, looking for alien life no chance, the Earths screwed their just blinding us with work,drugs,war while they plan their Eden which is our birthright…..
Hey Corona, nice piece about exhausting the populace, I have always considered that the best explanation for the amount of work we do. Notice how it is all finely balanced so you have to work a lifetime to pay off all your debts, particularly your house. I can understand the price of housing to an extent, but why does land cost so much? Why aren’t we all entitled to a piece of land somewhere?
Ladyj, employers care about zippo. They only want you to be there all the time, and longer if they can get away with it without paying you. They don’t care about your personal issues, your problems or anything about you really, as long as you show up day in day out and don’t give them any problems. I haven’t met a corporation or anywhere that will take any crap from an employee. I have had my share of problems, but I now know well enough to keep them to myself if possible.
beer, you are spot on man. We have trashed this planet, and wasted a huge opportunity to create a community based life, with opportunity for all. We have exploited everything and everyone!
It is so nice to see that other people feel the same way as I do about work.
I always felt like there was something wrong with me because i hated all of my jobs, but now I realise that it is perfectly normal !
I work 9 to 5 in an office and I am always SO BORED.
I hate siting in the damn cubicle for 8 hours, i drink like 8 cups of coffee each day just to walk away from the desk for 5 minutes each time. I also go for lots of smoke breaks just to escape the drudgery.
There is no solution however, we are all slaves to the system (sigh).
Some times when i am sitting there i feel a real sense of emptyness or a tightening sensation in my chest. I just sigh and battle on with it. Its not that the work is difficult, quite the opposite actually.
Humans are meant to be free but these office jobs are no different from being in prison.
Hey all, read a book called “Profit over people” by Noam Chomsky. I warn you though, it really does cover in detail all the things you hate in work and why things have been made to be this way. You will go one of 2 ways after reading it – enlightened or severely depressed, wishing you could ‘unread’ considering that it makes you realise the utter futility of trying to do anything about it.
The difference between work and prison. Prisoners get a Playstation.
Hey Pub_enemy, it would be interesting to do a comparison list between prisoners and workslaves, the playstation is one, they also get free food, electricity, water, no rates, no mortgage, no worrying about getting laid off, plenty of leisure time, free educational opportunities.
downside: you get to play hide the sausage with some pretty unsavoury men, limited access to anyplace except the prison, no female contact, potential for sudden knifings etc, etc 🙂
It all depends if you get put in a high security prison, or a country club prison that celebs are sent to
beerengine I understand how you feel brother!
Fuck life is horrible with work.
I am not working at the moment but have worked heaps doing all kinds of jobs, but it’s horrible.
I am 20 and fuck it is ages till I can retire fucken hell!
May as well cut my wrists now and bleed to death, saves having to go through the boss and employees giving me hell all the time, also trying to pay off the bloodly bills, that weigh us down!
Not looking foward to work, very soon I am gonna cut my wrists and it will all be over, I kinda feel happy about it!
Because… I believe my spirit will come out of my body, and wont have to worry about bills, petrol etc!
Simon
Jailbirds also get three hots and a cot! (three meals and a bed to sleep in). Most people on the outside don’t get the three hots.
I wouldn’t like to be in jail!
I HATE IT WHEN PEOPLE SAY….
There is lots to live for… rubbish complete rubbish
FACE REALITY.
40hr a week working until you die,
I hate people who say there’s lots to live for, they need to face reality.
MONDAY MORNING….. feel suicidal…
One more thing, why does no one care that I feel suicidal, is it because they can’t do anything for me or something?
I RECKON PEOPLE ON THIS SITE ARE IGNORANT!
I feel suicidal and yet no one cares.
I am not saying it for attention, but I hate work and what it has done to me, I just want to die. yet no one wants to write back to me….
WELL FUCK YOU LOT!
Mark –
ring your doctor and say you want talking therapy.
let people show you that you have options to choose from, and life isn’t as final as you think it is at the moment.
you’re suffering because of the game that’s being played on everyone – talk to people who can help not people who can’t.
THANKYOU FOR CARING
I WILL DO THIS AND TALK TO A DOCTOR
Sorry for being rude people, I can see that, that is all you people can do to say to me.
I was just heated up at the time I wrote it!
Mark- of course I/we care – and no one will be fucked off that you were a little put out – but the reality is that there really are options out there, and you are suffering at the hands of a country that is purposefully using you as labour and doesn’t give a fuck about you – you’re feeling the way a human who is being abused, should feel.
Do not go on anti depressants, get talking therapy, your illness is real but it is not chemical, it is psychological- it is the reaction to an economic ploy that wants to pimp you……
you’re suffering from pressure and stress, if you can wangle it to get on “welfare” under depression – fuck it- do it.
Fuck work – you’re a human being, your life is yours, and fuck the government – and fuck your “employers” – you’re not a fish, you are a man – hook in mouth.
mark listen to what CraighasFuckedworkOff is saying. go get therapy. you’re worrying me too.
have you guys ever hear of a place called vanuatu? the people there are the happiest people on earth on the last UN survey.
they dont have any modern convenience like ours but they grow vegetables and raise animals. in the morning they work. in the afternoon they get together to drink with friends and family.
oh and they worship prince philip. now when i think about it, might be good place to live.
Mark, if you can get away with part time, try that. Don’t let anyone say shit to you about working full time. Part time will bring some money in, and keep your sanity a bit. It does for me. But working out in this god damn never ending snow is pissing me off a little bit. My city is ranked number 2 now in highest snowfall in the US. I’m pretty sure it will take number 1 soon.
Plus, try some herbal supplements for emotional health. Don’t mess with prescription drugs, they just screw you up worse.
thegreatA, I just looked up vanuatu. I could only wish I was there right now.
Mark, there are ways to make work more bearable.. such as, if you can, wear headphones and listen to good music. I’ve had lots of data entry jobs, it’s pretty boring, but at least they just give you a pile of work and leave you alone to do it. Always make sure to take your lunch and breaks, actually leave your desk, leave your building if you can, don’t waste money buying lunch somewhere, but pack a sandwich and chips and go for a walk. Or see if you can work through your lunch, and leave early. I mean.. work sucks ass, but.. do you really want to die because of it? That’s letting the system get the best of you. I think the B-vitamins help you feel less stressed, research it online, but please don’t kill yourself.
That Vanuatu sounds amazing! Wow.
Honestly, i think we should stay away from Vanuata. They have a good thing going on, and i think we are already “damaged”. Cool place though
Vanuata sounded great until I read about the Malaria problem! Mosquitos love me, so I’ll say thanks but no 🙂
there’s always something to spoil it innit hehe
Its Super Bowl Sunday- a 3 hour reprieve, then the Sunday night “dread” will creep up on me.
yo mark, I think you should find something that really interests you and make that your profession, then its no longer work, its fun. You sound fairly articulate and intelligent so you could easily do it.
I’m finding it really hard to go to work at the moment. My job is so boring and I find the whole atmosphere soul-destroying. I don’t understand how my colleagues have worked in jobs that stress and upset them for so long. When decisions come down from management that they disagree with, they don’t try and stand up for themselves, they just take it. They have no problem saying “well, it’s not up to us” and I just can’t handle that.
I, unfortunately, can’t just sit and be quiet doing a job that means nothing to me. I love volunteer work because I know that I am directly influencing the life of another person in a positive way. The path to a positive outcome from my job is too convoluted and ultimately not something I value.
Not to mention the 2 days of ‘rest’, 5 days of work ratio, that makes no sense to me.
I have a solution and that’s to start my own business. No more asking for “permission” to take a little longer on my lunch break! I can work toward something I believe in, be creative, in control and make my work suit me.
However, this is going to take time to set up and in the meantime I still can’t handle plugging away at a meaningless task for 8 hours every day. I try and tell myself that things will get better in a few years time but that doesn’t make it any easier. Plus, all the time I waste at work takes away from time I could be using to start my business. And as we all know, work leaves you exhausted and useless in the evening.
I just don’t know how to keep getting through each day. I know that most jobs are going to make me feel the same way. I’m sick of feeling ill and anxious every Sunday night and crying about how hopeless I feel. I know that other people can do it but I just, I just don’t understand. Don’t they have something inside of them that tells them it’s not right?
I’m so lost. Though I’m glad I’ve found this thread. At least I know I’m not alone.
2 hours to get to work today because of the snow-its a 4 mile drive. Why did I bother? Why didnt have the balls to say its not worth it, im staying home. But no, I had to go to that novelty act for a few hours,and for what? To answer a couple of emails. Smashing. I prayed for this kind of weather so I wouldnt have to go to work and when it comes, i still go. What a winker I am. Gotta get out of work, I really cant stand this anymore. I’m so, so fed up.
The most intelligent animal on earth is a slave to himself….
CraighasFuckedworkOff, Dirk, Lady J, thegreatA and everyone thanks.
Believe it or not but me 20 and my friend 32 have been stressed to the point of breakin point.
I hope I don’t kill myself like my grandmother did because, she worked night shifts and all types of horrible hours and it became to much for her, and I feel like I am going the same way she is!
I will see a therapist. Sorry for what I said about you kind people.
Isn’t it scary when in life you don’t know when you are going to make a wrong turn and end up suicidal like me.
I will see a therapist and talk about this thanks!
When my grandmother killed herself when I was young and didn’t understand, she did it because she was a nurse and felt trapped because she couldn’t take it anymore.
Nurses and doctors are some of the most stressed out people in the world, because of the crazy hours they do!
Hi Mark, unfortunately this isn’t updated as often as a normal type ‘forum’, and most of us will only pop on here as time allows, so really not the best for emergency type situations. Regardless, I am sure you can all count on us for support, even though we don’t know each other. I hope you can get to see someone who can help you with your situation. I understand how you feel, and probably each of us in our own way has had some pretty desperate times, and we are also probably not suited for 9-5 type work, which is the root of my problem anyway.
Still, take care man, and hope all turns out well for you!
Hey Beer, isn’t it ironic that we are lords of this planet, but also slaves? Our pets get better treatment than us, and they sure as hell don’t go to work all week.
Oh for a simple life.
Oh to be a dog- get fed, get belly rubbed, can lay around all day, and you will be loved no matter what..
I am actually on the benefit people at the moment, because I have aspergers syndrome and am too sensitive when the staff and customers talk to me. I freak out!
I like almost break down and cry just from someone raising their tone a little bit!
FROM MARK!
Simon, yes bro your right, we’re are the lords of the planet and yet our pets get loved and fed and do yet nothing? Are we lower even than our own pets, due to our LIFE style?
Know why the concept of “work” is so inherently wrong? Humans weren’t meant to be chained to one spot one, endlessly doing the same thing for 47 years. Who thought this system up? People who, generally, don’t have to live this way because they benefit from taking other people’s lives away from them by forcing them to….work.
I don’t like having to hold a job. It’s a waste of the best parts of the day. I really resent having to give up my day and only be left with a few hours before it’s time to go to bed and “get ready” to do it all over again, day after day, year after year. This is a waste of my time, my life and my patience, and I resent it.
Just imagine if all the people forced into “jobs” refused to work for one day! All the blood-suckers of the world would lose a fortune and actually have to dirty their hands and do their own damned work.
Think about it!
Yes-Misanth- its Chinese Water Torture everyday– I too am chained to a desk. I am so burned out by Friday night, I lay on the couch, and don’t want to move. But in this economy, and all the layoffs, it’s like what can I do?
9-5 7 days a week just seems so ridiculous to me. Why has everyone just gone on like this for so many years! Absolutely nobody wants to do it so why cant we change it. God forbid we spend our days free in the outside world – we might…shock horror…actually have some fun! I reckon everybody should jobshare. Then the places of work would always be covered but everyone only works part time. Alright we wont get paid much but thats the price of freedom!!!
“its Chinese Water Torture everyday”
Howie – exactly!
All these dire predictions about how the “economy” will crash without jobs and work…how about if we just let it and start over? What about a society where the emphasis is not on consumerism and getting and spending, but of just…being? Of existing and only using what’s really needed?
OK, highly abstract and philosophical and whatnot.
But seriously…what if all the worker bees just said NO MORE and stopped working and did what THEY wanted?
Can you imagine the dramatic change if YOU could decide how you spent each day, all 24 hours of it?
All I hear, out of everyone’s mouths, is how much they hate working, hate the office, the job, have to drag themselves in. Hafta, hafta, hafta. Is this all there is? Is this as good as it’ll ever get? Give up your life only to get it back when you’re broken and old and can’t enjoy it anymore? I don’t think that this kind of society and “economy” is suitable for our species (or any species).
My other grandad the one that isn’t poor owns a ferrari and enjoys driving it, but he still works because he gets bored and he is 70!
That’s the problem with some people who work their whole lives ’til retirement – when they get old, they don’t know what to do with their free time.
More money I owe in taxes this year that goes to paying the bankers prostitute money that got bailed out.
This is going to sound a bit crazy but imo the recession isn’t real insofar as its not a physical crisis. An environmental crisis, a global pandemic, a breakdown in the food chain with the extinction of bees, these are real crises. But the recession is a behavioural phenomenon. People act in a certain way to make it real for themselves. Buts its all in their heads.
i was thinking. if we as a society can start over again, what would we want? how should we rebuild ourselves? working our ass off for shitty wages again? working to satisfy the greed that got us where we are right now?
if this world ever does get reset to zero again then i want to live like my grandfather did. what about you guys? what would you guys do?
I think there is a big environmental crisis on the way, it could be runaway climate change or a breakdown in the foodchain caused by declining bee populations, in any case the process of the world resetting to zero is not going to be pretty.
You know what night it is…
Oh God, not again, please no, I can’t cope with this…
Oh God, not again, please no, I can’t cope with this…
Genetics will always ensure that the aggressive, hurtful and cruel reach the top of the pile. Therefore, any reset of this world would need to be accompanied by a massive cull of all the greedy, exploitative people that seem to run this version of our planet. I’d be happy to see another animal take over quite honestly. We’ve done a crap job.
Hands up everyone that hates Monday…
Sometimes I secretly hope for something catastrophic to happen, like everyone was saying would happen in Y2K. I like to think I have a plan but honestly, I’m no survivalist. I like to think I could make it, but could I?
Honestly, I think we are more likely stuck with society the way it is, and getting worse. I keep racking my brain, how can we beat society and the government and corporate game?
Good article: http://www.human-academy.com/english/culture.asp
I agree with this part:
“Centuries of experience shows that material revolution merely results in increased material standard, which only leads to increased materialism, egoism, acquisitiveness, jealousy, vanity, lust for power etc. From the point of view of consciousness, this does not lead to development or change worth mentioning. ”
This is the reason most humans think we have to work constantly, to support power and materialism.
corona radiata, Simon and Sarah – agree with you 100%. It’s all of that, in a nutshell, that’s turned our lives into a collective mess.
There’s no crisis other than those aggressive and greedy people worried that the system by which they ab/use everyone might collapse because they got too greedy and can’t get what they want out of the “rest” of us.
The real problems are global warming, species extermination (and I don’t mean Homo sapiens, as we are the shit species causing all the problems), pollution and habitat destruction are actually the real concerns, not these artificial constructs by which humans force each other to exist.
The problem is that these “economies” are based upon materialism, consumption, and disposability/wastefulness. If it weren’t like that, this would be a vastly different and likely better world.
Just an observation: This thread was started four years ago and contains only 777 comments (as of this comment)? I know more people than that want their say.
Maybe that’s the true evil, that people can’t say what they really think because they’re afraid their comments might be traced back to them (not just on the Internet), and they need to hang onto work they hate to subsidize lives that are made miserable by their work.
What a vicious cycle. Yes, that’s exactly it: It’s a hamster wheel. Hamsters don’t know that they’re not getting anywhere, but humans do. Isn’t awareness great?
What annoys me is that most everyone else in my office appears to enjoy the working everyday. They are always so happy and smiling.
So I am left feeling abnormal or strange for hating this repetive grind everyday.
I mean, doing the same task day in day out ,52 weeks a year , how is it normal to enjoy that ?
I spend everyday at work literally counting down the time till I can go home.
Is this really the plan that ‘God’ had for humankind? Is this really the culmination of all of my education and life experiences, to sit in the cubicle everyday, waiting till i am free to go home?
Sometimes this really does seem like a Godless world, where the bullies and the butt-kissers get ahead, and those people with a conscience and a moral compass have to grin and bear it.
I hate to say it, but everyday, on several occasions, I wish I were dead, or I wish an asteroid would come and destroy this world.
Why is there rarely any justice in the world? Why does God let this happen? Why do the rich and powerful get richer and more powerful, and the normal people have to choose netween serving the system or else being homeless?
It all comes down to God. I mean, How can God just watch all this happen, and not lift a finger to help the righteous against the evil controllers. We are so dumbed down, we just cant help ourselves as a society.
And the scariest conclusion I can make of all this : Maybe there is no God.
It feels better to vent those feelings !
CDOs are a ticking timebomb in the markets.
check this out
http://www.businessspectator.com.au/bs.nsf/Article/A-tsunami-of-hope-or-terror-LHRJP?OpenDocument&src=sph
Economies will collapse globally, tens of trillions of dollars will go back to the banks. It may happen this week.
Tim28 you make some valid points bro! But I tell ya something, my mom always has said to me “You can have all the money and houses in the world, but you can’t take it with ya”. And she’s right, all those butt kissers are just wasting their time. I still believe this life is some sort of test, that’s why you see butt kissers getting more cash and rapists winning the lottery. Look it up, this is supposed to be Satan’s world for now and…..yup, the love of money is the root of all evil. People like us don’t want the materialistic over spill. We just need the equality and the right to decide how we spend our own time (lives), not to be dictated to by governments and fat cats who couldn’t care less about the little guy propping them up. Lets face it everything in the natural world has a perfect balance unless man interferes with it. Everything man makes is flawed and man made money no wonder the world is in the mess it’s in now. Banks paying themselves fat ass bonuses with OUR TAX money and then charging US if we go over the overdraft limit,credit cards or God knows what else they can think of to keep us under control and trapped and frustrated to the point of taking drink,drugs,crime and suicide this is progression?We own the banks, we should tell them go and piss off!!! They make money off our sweat and then charge us for it, ridiculous? Half the world is fat and dying of heart attacks and the other starving with diarrhea?? I believe there is a spiritual dimension in parallel with this life. And I believe you can’t buy your way in, only the humble can walk in……Is the rich man going to be humble? I hope I’m right and these greedy bastards create their own hell at the point of death!!! Yeah thats right see them in some dark pit chained to a desk for all ETERNITY with Satan shoving wads of notes,lobsters,silver,gold,houses(piece by piece), cars (piece by piece),banks (piece by piece), government rulers (piece by piece),bosses (piece by piece) up their arses, looking at us through some inter dimensional window, free in some kinda Paradise……..saying I wish I was out there with them enjoying Eternal bliss yeah that would be sweet poetic justice, for making us suffer now, curse the fucking lot of them!!!!!!
pretty much it, I can’t understand the mentality of greedy power hungry fools. The CDO thing seems very serious. Total economic collapse is bad, very bad, insofar as people go crazy and then you have total chaos.
God & Religion is the opium of the people. It’s just a means to take in the ass and shutup. “i’ll do good and work as a slave, no questions answered. Society&System equals goodness. This life sucks but hey i’ll get into heaven yippie”. Back in the days, farmer were victim to this kinda thinking. Slaving away, giving away ground&food to the church and thinking they did good. Poor bastards and it was all for nothing. Same as us, we work our lives but for what? Atheism makes us realise that this is IT. We only got one chance.
IMO There is no God and if there is, he can fuck off for all i care.
God & Religion is the opium of the people. It’s just a means to take in the ass and shutup. “i’ll do good and work as a slave, no questions answered. Society&System equals goodness. This life sucks but hey i’ll get into heaven yippie”. Back in the days, farmers were victim to this kinda thinking. Slaving away, giving away ground&food to the church and thinking they did good. Poor bastards and it was all for nothing. Same as us, we work our lives but for what? Atheism makes us realise that this is IT. We only got one chance.
IMO There is no God and if there is, he can fuck off for all i care.
I agree with you that religion is a control culture and based on irrational suppositions.
In fact all ideologies seem like control cultures, but I guess the old adage live and let live rings true. Pity very few follow it, even though that does sound like an ideological statement.
On that CDO article, here is the reason we are all in the shxt.
‘A synthetic CDO is a collateralised debt obligation that is based on credit default swaps rather than physical debt securities. ‘
People that make up this sort of trash should be rounded up and imprisoned. I saw a documentary, and one high up investment banker said that most of his colleagues could not understand most of the packages that were around…. nuff said.
They are entrusted with our financial wellbeing, and quite frankly, they haven’t a clue what they are doing.
Nice.
Religion has been around as a control tool for thousands of years. The use of fear, either with religion, or with our day to day lives is a well documented tool for control. Think of all the millions of people hoodwinked over the ages, and fooled into giving away their lives for nothing.
If this world does collapse, I sure hope that whatever takes its place is better than what we have created for ourselves.
While people are willing to be led by fools, and taken for a ride by so called financial wizards, then we deserve what we get.
Everything we have now is transitory, and can be removed very easily. Check out the bushfires here in Oz. Also, you cannot take it all with you when you depart..
Also, if you read that CDO article, you will come across this little gem:
About a decade later, a team working within JP Morgan Chase invented credit default swaps, which are contractual bets between two parties about whether a third party will default on its debt. In 2000 these were made legal,
So, they have been BETTING on the outcome. Legalised gambling with trillions of dollars of your money……
Another fascinating piece on Traders, and how they operate. No training, no clue, and billions of dollars of other peoples money to play with.
http://www.portfolio.com/news-markets/national-news/portfolio/2008/11/11/The-End-of-Wall-Streets-Boom
Banks are probably one of the biggest reason this world is in so much shit, as far as money and economy go.
As for globabl warming, you either believe its due to us (humans), or it’s happening naturally as the warming also seems to be happening on mars. I don’t think we can do much about it in either case, it’s gonna happen, and weather is gonna change. Some places will be worse than others, and we either adapt to the changes, or go to shit. I believe will probably go to shit, because we all can’t work together because of too many greedy, unbelieving, or uncaring bastards out there that are too obsessed with themselves to give a shit about anyhing else. Until the reality of it slaps us in the face, then we will try to do something about it, but by then it will be too late.
“If god were to punish man according to what he deserves, he would leave not a beast on the back of this earth.” When I first heard that, I thought “whoa, that’s kinda harsh, not ALL people are horrible enough to deserve that kind of punishment across the board.” but the more I thought about it, I started to agree with it… we have such resources in our grasp, and what do we do with them? We destroy everything, especially the earth. We destroy ourselves, and each other, and what’s worse, everyone is so wrapped up with their meaningless lives – lives filled with houses they can’t afford, cars that guzzle gas, techy doo-dads and gadgets that cost more than my first two cars put together, our hundred-channel TVs that don’t tell us anything new, just keep us brain dead by entertaining us with dribble, etc etc. Most people are so wrapped up in that stuff, they can’t see anything that is really happening around them. What are we doing?!!? Aren’t we smarter and better than all this? I remember in psychology class, the teacher asked us if we thought people were basically good, or basically bad… like inherent nature… it is so hard to say, I see so much bad, but also know of so many good people trying to fight the good fight…
Simon, I hope you are safe and hope the fires end soon.
“If god were to punish man according to what he deserves, he would leave not a beast on the back of this earth.”
The sad truth here is that humans choose to be evil and use/abuse one another. Other creatures have disagreements and sometimes the results are tragic, but there’s never a protracted war and insanity like there is with Homo sapiens. We truly are a shit species and what’s even sader is that those who are evolving are still being held back by those who are the worst possible manifestation of the species – the kind that have been aptly described in several posts, notably by Tim28, beerengine and zizagangel.
I had a dream/nightmare several years ago that uberaliens came to the planet and revealed themselves. They treated humans the way humans treat other species – like captives and slaves – and we objected, of course. The uberaliens stated we had no grounds to object, considering we did the same things to other creatures. They called us hypocrites and asked us if we’d collectively learned the object lesson they had just decided to teach us about “might makes right”…the lesson being “just because you can do something doesn’t mean you should.” Most humans were indignant, but some weren’t and got the message.
I guess this is what it’ll take for the “evolved” to wake up and do something before the stagnant in our species ruin everything – the lives of other humans, other creatures, and the planet in general.
Where O where are those aliens when we need them most?!
Just wanted to say – loving this sh1t!.. so much truth written here. It’s nice to know much of what I have felt and thought is shared by other people. I feel semi-enlightened. My life is a big waste at present which I am cruising through with as painlessley as possible. Trying to be philosophical about work and it’s helped alot to stop being stressed by stuff taht is ultimately unimportant.
Where to go from here though and what changes to make? I wish there was someone/thing to guide me and others but I guess it will take time from within?
Good points Simon, Misanthrope and Lady J
Think something very big might cascade through the markets tomorrow, though maybe not.
This is a great blog eh LFC. This conforming and “keeping up with the jones’s” shit is gnawing away at our souls. I never liked the Jones’s..
Yes this blog is a real eye opener, I’m glad I stumbled across it and that it hasn’t been blocked by my work web filter (yet). What started off as a big b1tch and moan thread has developed into an interesting debate on life in general and the way in which we are controlled. Very few are truly free and that is sad.
I think someone mentioned earlier that to go back to a more idyllic way of living where we don’t slave away would not be sustainable due to the world being overpopulated and I believe that is probably true.
I have always though I felt “different” in some way and that I was fighting against something without really knowing why, but now I am beginning to understand it is simply my perception of the world that I believe is a little less blinkered than the majority and as I have grown up (late 20’s) I now embrace this rather than trying to fit in with the people who are happy in the system. Hopefully a few others can gain some inspiration from this site and not let the work BS get them down. I know it has depressed me in the past and I vow never to let that happen again from now on!
Look forward to hearing more thoughts/stories.
LFC Fan
Your source of misery comes from the fact that the price of alloys has come down so there aren’t many hub caps for you to steal anymore 😀
hehehe just playing – truth is people are controlled by people behind and above the government- it’s no accident that we’re all enslaved –
To live you need a house, to have a house you need a mortgage, to pay a mortgage you need a job, and the employers pay you as little as is possible to keep you for as long as is possible – to make hard core money off your ass.
Government get paid up the arse from many sources, your taxes which they TAKE from you, the interest on the mortgage you pay, which can change rates in time – and when you can’t take no more because of your shitty life, you get drunk and pay the cunts again.
THEY ARE THE SINGLE MOST HORRIBLE CUNTS ON EARTH.
But who are they and where are they? and why don’t you know? – because they don’t want you to know.
African Slave Trade right, English go to Africa, violently steal people for hard labour (by the millions over time) ship em to America – half died or were thrown overboard if not enough supplies- work in America in cotton fields, and in building railroads/roads- left to die in a field- products made from labour shipped to Europe, make lots of money, back to Africa to get more people- Now white people think they’re above all that, but we’re not- 5 days from 7- so that’s 5 to them 2 to you, 40 hours a week, one day is used to prepare for the following week, so you have maybe one day saturday- to get pissed and pay them again in income tax, so in reality you have ONE day a week which you nurse a headache and read a book –
So look at the month, 4 days in a month are yours, look at the year – 48 days in a year are truly yours to do as you wish.
And the motherfuckers wonder why alcoholism, violent disorder are rife.
I’d like to revolt against the cunts, but at the end of the day it comes down to violence and they’ve got all the weapons.
Slaves.
Everybody in here is depressed- go to the doctor, be diagnosed with depression then sign on sickness benefit- and fuck the bastards off!! Grow your own vegetables and fuck loose women!!!! we weren’t born to be enslaved because of our niavety
+ that too craig
interesting. The reason they have control too is that a lot of people are indoctrinated. If people revolted against the system no amount of weapons would be any use, if the will was strong enough. Ideas are the deadliest weapon in any arsenal, except maybe nukes.
Heres an interesting link, I’m not into conspiracy theories remotely, but this guy has some peculiar things to say on the whole financial crisis situation. (My history isn’t so good prior to the 19th century)
http://www.enterprisecorruption.com/
although he is charging 720 for people to subscribe to his site, so he’s a fraud.
it’s true if the majority of people said enough is enough – there could be change- but people would have to be willing to die, and they’re not at all.
government would just effect martial law- curfews, and stop all petrol supplies and food stocks.
they have every one by every ball
only way to do it, is to have enough like minded people working together, owning land, building on it, then not working, not paying taxes and being self sufficient, but the law might call that something like a settlement which I’m sure they’ve got sewn up too.
people absolutely without doubt are not free.
“Free to do as we tell you” –
I love people who steal huge diamonds or rob trains, they’re my heros.
wont surprise me if this page is being monitored by some organization……….
No gain in the history of the western man has ever been achieved without extreme violence.
I love the earth but I hate some people.
“I love people who steal huge diamonds”
Me too! I read a book about a very successful bank robber from the 1990s in the U.S. He got a way with millions in Washington State, I believe. They eventually caught him but I enjoyed the book and thought the guy was similar to a lot of people in here (not saying anyone here robs banks);). He thought society and the whole system was fucked up so stole from the banks and gave a lot of it to the people. .tipping waitresses $100 bills. Fun read:
http://www.amazon.com/End-Dream-Golden-Never-Grew/dp/0671793578
A lot of rude people these days make me wanna punch them!
I asked a guy a question at the supermarket and he was very rude and not very caring.
I live in New Zealand and a lot of the people here are just so fucken rude!
I hate the general population in New Zealand. It’s like their mothers didn’t bring them up right, to teach them manners, which my mum definitely did.
Or maybe it’s because they are adults now and manners doesn’t matter anymore!
Fuck the general population, so bloodly rude they are!
sunday feeling of dread to whats coming tommorow, i wish could be a millionaire i could live free without having to worry about going to work. lotto here i come i guess.
The reason things will never change is because there isn’t enough people that think the way we do. You try to tell other people how you feel about how your life feels unfulfilling, how work is pointless and they think your depressed or lazy, when that isn’t the case. We know this way of life just feels wrong, and others are just so brainwashed that they can’t see it. At least here people can understand how you feel.
Get good grades in school so you can get into a good college, so you can make some other guy rich.
Get good grades in school so you can get into a good college, so you can get a job for 40 hours a week making okay money, but ultimately making another person rich by working like a chump sucker for him/her or “them” (corporations).
..and the Dirk- retire at the ripe young age of 65! like we’re going to pick up babes at the bar at 65..or be able to have any kind of fun- our brains will be burned out by then
All of you are so right but CraighasFuckedworkOff made me think the most! If enough people in a country banded together there is nothing the government can do! What if soldiers don’t wanna work by going out getting killed for people who’s sole motivation is greed? What if the police jack? Who they gonna send send to make you work? Nobody, their power is just an illusion their power is us!!!! And without us they have nothing and they no it. We work our butts off we pay the tax. No tax, system failure, system failure we go free. I believe the majority of working class people could live off the land easily in say a log cabin. I just can’t Gordon Brown and his mindless drones being able to have the intelligence to dig up a potato or sow seeds. I doubt he can even collect an egg from a chicken and boil it, as for starting up a fire from scratch no chance. This is why we are slaves to look after them and then get shafted at 65 (no pension). Why cant we retire at 30?? This bull shit is designed to break your spirit man, while they sit back deciding our destiny’s, by who’s authority have they to say to me that I have to do this repetitive bullshit to 65 and then drop down dead??? Why don’t Gordon Brown do the courages thing and swap his life style with one of us for a month and see what reality bloody is!!
+1 beerengine. This is the crux of the matter, people consent to authority. I don’t know why, maybe its indoctrination, maybe its our evolutionary history in being social animals. In any case if people always consented there would be no progress, so our future depends on eliminating unjustified authority. Like yes we need a police force and an army unfortunately because some people are total idiots, but in a reduced capacity. A culture which frowns upon exploitation, crime and violence and which fosters independent thinking is the best preventative solution. Its just history fucking things up, social inertia etc. Group think=mind control. Talk of war and defending the country is when the alarm bells go off.
beer/corona/all, yes some very valid points! We have been conditioned over time to accept a certain amount of crap, and there seems to be a critical mass point where we refuse to accept any more and a revolution occurs. I guess it depends on the situation at the time, but if enough people lose their jobs and livelihoods this time around, then it may become unacceptable. The peaks and troughs of economic activity seem to swing more violently as time goes on. Recessions, booms busts, they all appear with clockwork regularity, and they really should not be happening if we had a functioning and healthy economic system. The system does not serve everyone, there are far too many people on this planet with nothing to show for all their labour and effort. How long will it continue? Who knows, but there are sure enough people who are unhappy with it.
The worse thing is, that even the people who are employed and supposedly doing ok through it are unhappy, as in us. There is only a very small minority who are exploiting others, and that pyramid structure needs to be removed.
I love reading this site, some great thoughts and I can’t pick holes in any of it really. Just makes me angry, frustrated and sad that I, like others have trapped myself in this working hell hole!
It’s gonna take something monumental to break this “consenting to work long hours for very little benefit” cycle and though I think there are probably more people who realise what is going on, there are alot who are likely resigned to the system and so brainwash themselves just enough to make it bearable. I’m hoping these people would rise up if they could see a real opportunity to change things, but doubtless there is probably a real fear of change amonst people too.
The only work I’d every really want to do for money would be one of:
1) Acting
2) Sports
3) Musician
4) Film Director
5) Artist
6) Novelist/Writer
I’d say people with those kind of jobs are probably quite happy and well paid for the most part. Anything else is just sh1te in my opinion!
Am I making any sense?
Us guys should come together in some way if you are willing? Start some organisation to spread the word or something, just see how far it goes?
p.s Craig – though a Liverpool fan, I’m not a scouser so no stealing hubcaps! :p
that’s a good idea, LFC Fan.
Dirk, I think a lot of people DO think the same way we do, but like Corona said, they are too indoctrinated to think it can be any different.
Fortunately with all these people losing jobs, I see more people working part time, or consulting, which will hopefully start to sink in that they don’t need to work their asses off in order to survive. Of course they won’t be able to afford their McMansions and gas guzzlers, but then again, I say they don’t need ’em. 😉
check this out, both hilarious and insightful!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2-BZfFakpzc
Hi Ladyj, thanks for the kind words in relation to our fires here in Oz. I am on the west coast, but lived in Victoria for many years, and still know a lot of people there. It is an unfortunate fact of life for us that there is always going to be a bushfire cycle, which despite the widespread devastation is a natural cycle. The people here are pretty tough though, but it will take a long time to heal. If you want to donate, you can do so through http://www.redcross.com.au who are managing all donations here in Oz.
cheers
I am trying to steel myself up for another day, and I am not sure how much longer I can do this. It is draining my wellbeing to a point where I feel absolutely helpless. Alternatives include not working and losing my house… Not a pleasant one really.
I hope I live to see a massive change in this world and how it operates, with people cooperating not competing.
Keep away from any indoctrinating sources like commercial tv, and the major newspapers. Look for alternative news sources and information you can trust. Refuse to be brainwashed!
I’m sorry people but there is nothing you can do. I will break you all down and you will work your lives away. i love being rich.
From the other side
Sincerely,
your employer
Satan
We need to use the system, against the system. Use it, to manipulate, your freedom….
We need to use the system, against the system. Use it, to manipulate, your freedom….
Do you think we’re a small minority, or are a lot of people aware of what’s going on, but are afraid to say something? I think I might be expressing myself to a fault. I’ve been looking for work, often applying for jobs I don’t want. Yet I blog about it because I need to vent my rage. Do you think if potential employers/clients read my writing I’m screwed? We already have no freedom in the workplace. I consider that my mind is mine, and that sharing my thoughts is not a bad thing to do.
My last two blog posts were about hating work, but I’ve been interviewing between hating work and expressing that hatred online. Unfortunately, people need money to live.
I’ve been keeping quiet about my blogging. What if people who are in a position to wield their power, real or imagined, over me can use my words against me? But why should I hide? I’m telling the truth. I absolutely have to say what’s on my mind or I’ll burst, but what if an idiot reads me and doesn’t get me? Am I screwed?
Maybe it’s better to just let the whole system tank and start from scratch.
E! You are too paranoid my friend- vent away- thats why we are here- because work sucks donkey balls.
E, I think if they see your blog they will not want to hire you. They do not understand anything other than the die-hard employee who is willing to sacrifice family, friends, and having a life to work 60+ hours per week. But if you don’t advertise your blog on your resume, they shouldn’t be able to find it. Unless they can find it by googling your name or something. My last employer flat out told me she googled my name and looked me up on myspace (fortunately, my profile is set to private after getting burned at my previous job for something I blogged about).
freedom of speech and all that…
I can’t believe you got burned,
good blog E.
Great quote: “Corporations don’t give a damn about you or your life. All hail the new machine. They steal the humanity from humans and flatten our true potential. They care not even about those who help them to accomplish their selfish goals. ”
Why do I have to go through this pain, again for, tomorrow?
I feel a revolution coming on. If it were up to me i world hang every ceo, every bankers and every politicians in the world, but you know what ? the same thing would happen again coz GREED fucking rules!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Yes, greed is an all encompassing factor in todays world. Their is very little altruism left, especially in the corporate world…
Amongst the things I found interesting when my job was eliminated and I was laid off in late 2002 was what people *thought* I felt. People thought they were being supportive and encouraging telling me to “keep on trying” and “don’t take it personally” and “try to keep busy so it doesn’t get you down.”
They thought I was depressed because I lost my job? About not having to work? On what planet!!
My student loan went on deferment, I had no other debt at the time, and even some money stashed in a savings account. And then there were my unemployment payments coming in weekly. What reason would I have to be unhappy?
My unemployment payments covered all my immediate living expenses (food, rent, utilities, gasoline, etc) and I still had a little money left at the end of the month. I got to read books, go birding, go on extended adventures in the parks, swim at the pool, spend time with companion animals…you see how blissful it was! Sleep in, stay up late, go to the gym and work out, and then do what you like for remainder of the day and night. There’s something bad about that?
I loved being “unemployed” because I got to experience real and true freedom. I did things on my schedule, came and went when and where I pleased, stayed as long as I liked, and didn’t have to rush around. I got to do things I liked and it was exhiliarating.
Personal growth, anyone? It was the one of the few times in life I ever had a true and genuine sense of well-being.
I didn’t miss working, jobs, offices, people, nothing. With a little creativity, I played local tourist and enjoyed every minute of my freedom.
The honesty and truthfulness of the folks here expressing their real feelings about being forced to give up their lives for someone else’s purposes reminds me we’d all be so much better off and happier having complete control over our own lives.
Beer-
I’m with you- might as wear an orange jump suit, or pinstripes- its the 8-hour, daily prison sentence..it truly is..
You lot are a bunch off useless moaners. Do urself a f*cking favour and get a life.
Nameless one, it’s a sad day when a person doesn’t even have the right to say how they feel. If you don’t like it, then buzz off. No one is making you stay and read.
Check this out, its a lecture on how wages have stagnated for the past 30-35 years, the culture of consumption and how these intersected to result in excessive loans=more profit=bubble explosion. Very interesting in terms of an analysis of work culture, the dude giving the lecture is a bit dramatic but the content is worthy of attention. He basically comes to the conclusion that workers should own the means of production.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7382297202053077236&hl=en
Namless One, you are so right, we are moaning about getting a life! Buzz off!!!
Well guys it’s almost Friday! Whoopie, tomorrow I will be so tired I will probably watch TV, like I have done all week. Saturday I wold have recovered so I will stay in get drunk and watch TV because it’s cheaper and safer than going out. Then Sunday I will be waiting for Monday to repeat the whole BS again….that’s life folks! x
I think this is an excellent page, and I encourage all of you to put down anything in relation to the working hell concept!
Hey Beer, it is nearly home time here, and this is the only time in the week I feel a bit of weight lifting off from me. Trouble is, as you say, we spend it all recuperating from the weekly grind, I barely have enough energy to take a piss, let alone do anything energetic.
May the weekend pass slowly for you all.
all the best
I find that if I treat my weekend like a vacation, do fun things out of the ordinary, then I feel like I had more of a break from work. I mean, I totally hear y’all on being so tired from the work week that you just feel like resting all weekend. But try to reverse it – you’re gonna be a zombie during the work week anyway, so on the weekend, have some fun! ‘Recuperate’ and take it easy during the week. When people ask you what you did this weekend, they are gonna be so jealous when they hear all the fun things you did, cause they were running errands all weekend. Ha! Be different from them. (just trying to share what helps me)
On a different note, my boss just left me a message (4:30pm on a Friday) asking me to come in on Sunday! She’s working on something that is due Monday, and she started it yesterday and wants me to come in and save her ass. Fuck no! I won’t go!
a-ha! Found it! Been looking for the link to this website that I found some time ago. I don’t think it’s being updated any longer but you can still read around it.
http://www.whywork.org/index.php
A member from WhyWork started a new website, pretty cool linkeminded people
Call themselves “The Ghost Shirt Society” (hint hint^^)
http://isis.phpbb3now.com/viewtopic.php?f=23&t=315&p=1702#p1702
Lady J, thanks for that link. Great reading! :
http://www.whywork.org/about/features/stories/stories.html
Especially enjoyed this one:
http://www.whywork.org/about/features/stories/curse.html
You know what night it is….
thx Zigzagangel, always nice to see new linkeminded people. The Welfare bum is my hero, he lives cheap but atleast he has a life aka no working.
i’m so frickin burned out- oh its only monday night…ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
Hello all,
Just a little story to demonstrate why I’ll soon be resigning..
I work as an accountant (at the company 4 years) and I’ve been working pretty hard for the last few months as it’s a busy time of year, staying late at times etc and been pretty burned out by it all so I decided to take a long weekend (fri-mon off)…
Just before leaving work I notice an error has been made by someone else that I am resonsible for and I own up and apologise for this, it’s not the end of the world and it can be corrected. I go and enjoy my weekend.
I come back to work today and within 30 mins I’m dragged into a meeting room for what I thought would be a simple catch-up. However, I get completely sh@t on and told my attitude and performance has been really poor over the last few weeks!. I try to defend myself and explain that I have been under pressure, working hard and I am not a robot, which is why I took the long weekend as I needed a break. (no thanks for the hard work or staying late by the way).
I am then also told by my boss that her boss mentioned that I had been “confrontational” over the mistake that I owned upto before the weekend… wtf? I was so angry I shouted out “That is COMPLETE fucking bullshit!” I said I was totally professional over that, apologised, owned up and got the mistake corrected – what more can they expect me to have done!? I had even helped the bitch out with some advice on her own work straight after the mistake which she seemed happy for…
This is the kind of shiity man-management and underhanded bullshit treatment I got succepted to day in day out. Praised one minute, shit on the next. No support and I’m really sick of it.
I hope that was in some way interesting or even amusing. Does anyone else have such a tale of unfair treatment to share?!
One of my friends had a similar experience with office politics. Well done for standing up for yourself.
It’s only Tuesday….God save me……..
i sell drugs to businessmen (little risk of getting caught) and work part-time. Yeah it’s outside the system, but it’s not like i have a choice.
Hi LFC Fan, well you have my sympathy mate. I can think of several occasions at work that really got under my skin, and I guess it is inevitable that we will all go through somthing similar. Any business will praise you to the hilt when you do something for them that they like, but you can bet that whatever you did will be forgotten by the next day, or even the same day. I have come across that a lot, and nowadays, I couldn’t care less if I got a pat on the back or not.
I think you need to accept that they will never really treat you like a person, despite all the words that come out of managements collective mouths. You are a cog in a gigantic wheel, and the only way you can get any self respect is to work for yourself. I am trying hard to find something I can do that will also pay my bills and keep my children off the street.
Again, you were treated quite shabbily my friend, so keep your eyes open for another opportunity, and leave them high and dry.
LFC, that sucks. It’s happened to me before and I have to say it just cements my views about how dysfunctional our corporate world is. When did we become their pawns instead of valued employees? It’s ridiculous. I had more freedom in school (even grade school) and my teachers trusted me way more and listened to my thoughts & ideas like I was a person of value. I’ve had so many bosses look at me like I’m just stupid whenever I tried to pitch a new idea or something that would work better. If you go against the grain, even by speaking up, then you get screwed. Oh yeah, and as soon as you do one thing wrong or make one mistake, they pull that “Your performance and/or attitude has been bad over the past —- however long”. Why the hell do they do that?!?? Grrr. You know for a long time I thought I’d go into management, even took several classes towards my Master’s of Management, then realized it will never change. Now I think I’d like to go into teaching art. I’ll never make much money at it, but then again, at least I won’t be paying as much taxes (which my government is relying on to pay for these billion-and-trillion dollar ‘bail out’ packages that do nothing for us citizens and just help the fat cats stay on top of the heap).
Anyway, best of luck to you in your search for a new job!
Ohnoes, I’d probably do the same thing if I knew how to do it with little risk. You say you don’t have a choice. Please explain?
How come our governments have no money for hospitals,schools, their people in general (soldiers,teachers,nurses,elderly,babies,women,men,everyone…..but they can find billions for……BANKS???? But they make money from OUR money. So if the banks belong to us and they are now making profit…..where the hell is my/your cut of the profit they have made?? It’s all built on sand, it’s all nonsense they can cut this tax, alter interest rates at will? A pure evil and sick system of monetary slavery, pure sadistic mind control. Only humanity could think of something so disgusting to enforce upon their fellow man, for what? What is this great goal we are all striving for, I just can’t see it?????
hey lady j, I think teaching art would suit you or maybe a phd or something in academia perhaps? I takes a lot of work but lecturing/teaching might be a good choice.
On governments screwing people, you should check out enterprise corruption.com, very cryptic but this guy Reinhardt predicted the stock market crash on sep 16th in July of 08 on google finance. Now he’s probably a conspiracy person but so far his other predictions have been accurate. For example he said the Dow would drop significantly from feb 9th of this year and so it has by 3000 points. Interesting stuff as he bases his analysis in financial history. Don’t know what to make of it myself.
@ Frank: i mean i do have a choice. I can suck it up, work fulltime and EXIST. Or, i can sell drugs, work part-time and live more than a saturday and a crappy dreadwait sunday. I don’t sell to kids or teenagers, these are responsible adult men.
I know i can get busted,but honestly it’s worth it. I remember the days when i worked full time, well NEVER AGAIN.
Hey Nameless one, you are a dick.
Kathy you tell the wanker.
People, the Maori population here in New Zealand hates work, because they used to live off the land. But when the English like me came to N.Z the Maori people wasn’t really allowed to live off the land because they had to get jobs like all the other english people here whom migrated to New Zealand!
I am 20 and hate work sad fnn life!
yeah beerengine. i was thinking what freaking goal are we actually trying to achieve?
the more i think about it the more i ask myself what is our purpose? where are we going as a society? as people?? and why is it that we’re in this god damn mess???
yeah nameless one. we’re all moaners but you know what? i never asked to be born. i wasnt given a choice. fate or whatever the hell it is got me to this planet!
and if there is a so called purpose to all this madness then it better be a good one…..
Thanks, Corona. My goal right now is a Master’s degree in Art + Teaching, with a focus on community programs (museums, non profits). I am starting volunteering this summer, at an art school at a local museum.
To all: one thing I’d like to know, why do bosses always want more? If I’m not good enough, then fire me. Don’t ‘push’ me to try to ‘make me better’ or ‘help me grow’ and take on extra responsibilities that I don’t freaking want in a job/career that I would never have chosen (I just fell into).
Oh, beerengine – I am also engraged that our governments never had enough money for things that truly matter – schools, health care, etc. Guess those things are secondary to what’s truly important: making sure banks and investment firms stay in business, and now, apparently the auto industry too (as if we don’t have enough cars). The reason you can’t figure out the ‘goal’ we are working towards is because, quite simply, there is no main goal we are all cooperatively working towards. It’s every person for himself, dog eat dog, whoever makes the most money and gets the most things and gets to the top. With this kind of attitude, how can we ever expect to work towards common goals and reach common ground? Sad, but true.
can we please have a world wide strike against everything, ie the banks, the corporate ass wipes, we are nothing but slaves. my life at the moment means NOTHING i get up, go to work, get more work, even a promotion, do i get a pay rise, ofcourse not! i mean hello we are in a recession it is SOOO LUCKY that I even have a job! oh yes I am so fortunate to be able to sell my soul to you blood suckers. Every meeting with you I DIE a little inside. I used to be such a happy person before work, now all I seem to do is fantasize about my childhood. We need a revolution, like the Industrial revolution but opposite, the Un-industrial revolution. And banks, they are truly psychotic over-privileged fucks that get employed by daddy to get massive bonuses and sell loans to senile people who will never be able to pay them back to make an extra buck in charges. Banks make me SICK. sick sick sick sick sick sick. Where I work isnt even that bad, i get along with my colleagues but really its either you get paid well