If only sleeping paid the bills!
Posted by Chris on 2 December, 2008
The thing about being unemployed is that you don’t have a rigid schedule anymore. If the alarm goes off at 6am and you don’t want to drag your ass out of bed you can just turn it off and get up when you’re ready. It’s also easy to put things off until later, I can always do that tomrrow – what else do I have to do? One thing that has really been suffering of late is this blog. Between losing my job and the election being over I’m scraping the absolute bottom of the barrel for posts lately.
With that in mind I present you with some things that I DO miss from my job and some things I DON’T miss from my job. Entertaining shit, I know. At least you can count on WTF Wednesday tomorrow…
Things I DO miss:
- Having a schedule to adhere to, I get much more done when I have a time table to work towards
- Interacting with someone other than Bryan and the cats on a daily basis
- Being able to go to sushi Thursday with S every week (I am craving sushi like nobody’s business!)
- Feeling like a productive member of society
- Getting that pay check every two weeks
- Having my co-workers for blog fodder
Things I DON’T miss:
- Having to interact with someone other than Bryan and the cats
- Watching the R4BB (rock for brains boss) walk by and try to avoid making eye contact
- Listening to MPP (miss prissy pants) and GH (greasy hippy) snort to clear their sinuses on an hourly basis
- Listening to MPP squeal like a little girl when talking on the phone to his queeny friends
- Going to GH to borrow the scanner and seeing that his cube is covered with decaying food, empty beverage containers, crusty coffee cups and leaking hot sauce bottles
- Having a schedule that I have to adhere to (actually this was great for only about a week)
- Listen to the R4BB and GH kiss each other’s asses with ridiculous ideas that wouldn’t work anyway
- The shitty coffee
- The office manager’s constant emails about nothing sent to the entire company
- The vice-president who was unable to pick up his feet when he walked
I’m sure I could go on and on, but I just saw something shiny and got distracted. What would you (or would you not) miss if you no longer had your job?
R4BB, this one’s for you…
A Lewis said
Do you think you can get paid to sleep in one of those sleep studies? Thinking of you during these tough times.
Steve's Rebooted said
Hugs
Northwest said
Jeez, how stupid do I feel that I missed your post about losing your job. Sorry to hear that, unless you aren’t of course:)
Maggie's Mind said
Your list of what you miss is longer than mine. I shouldn’t say that publicly, but, well, it’s true. I totally agree that once the lazy sets in, it gets entrenching. The first week I was determined to be up by about 7 or 8 at the latest just because I know how this thing goes. And I was right. Now? Mmmm, 9:30 is close enough, but I still kind of *wish* that I was getting up and doing the productive thing. Maybe tomorrow morning, if I don’t stay up until 3AM again because that habit has returned as well.
Chris said
Lewis ~ I’ve done those and they always want to charge me – bastards!
Steve ~ thanks man
NW ~ no worries, and I am sorry not only b/c of the dramatic reduction in our income, but I actually loved my job, except for the R4BB and people like him are everywhere
Maggie ~ I’m becoming a night owl as well and need to break that habit
david said
As someone who hasn’t had a “job” in 12 years, I’m not qualified to answer that. I do think that I’d be a much better employee now than I was back then but maybe not. I’d probably get bored with it after the first few weeks. My biggest problem is that sometimes I’m very busy and then when the busy stops, it’s like “what do I do now?”. I’d prefer to stay busy all the time.
Chris said
David ~ that’s my problem lately staying busy without deadlines, something I’m not good at it seems
poppingbubbles said
That poster could have been written about my manager, Kojak the Asshat. UGH! Good luck on the job hunting front!
XOXO
Chris said
Poppingbubbles ~ Kojak the Asshat – snort!