1715Take Back Your Time Day

• Oct. 24, 2003

  crockety-crok!
  
  Dland:
  
  Hey, it's Take Back Your Time Day, so ...go do something happy and
  unproductive for a change.
  
  
  I don't know how these other countries do it, but here in America,
  it's real easy: Employers want as much work as they can get out of
  you for the least amount of money. Employees want as much money as
  they can get for the least amount of work.
  
  
  And if you actually have a work ethic and believe that hard work,
  achievements, intelligence, and honesty are going to get you anywhere
  in your career, be prepared for the psychic equivalent of an anal
  raping for the rest of your sad little life.
  
  
  I have never ever ever eeeeevvvverrr worked ANYWHERE (except school,
  and even then there were social penalties for being academically
  successful) in which this hard work = reward.
  
  
  And the people who will whine loud enough to get perks are the same
  dipshit jackoffs who stand around the coffeepot all day talking shit
  about one another and don't get any work done.
  
  
  If people would friggin' WORK when they're at work, and if employers
  would PAY MORE for MORE & BETTER work, maybe then we'd all deserve a
  day off. But that's not the way it is.
  
  
  Welcome to the real world, kiddies. It's all fun and games until you
  lose your soul.
  
  LJ:
  
  It's "Take Back Your Time Day"!
  Whatever the hell that means.
  
  http://www.simpleliving.net/timeday/
  
  Oh, wah, diaperbabies wanna go pway!
  
  
  Americans have the WORST work ethic in the fucking world. As a
  country, we don't deserve any breaks on the work-front.
  
  Oh, my uterus worked, let me take off a year to go hatch my spawn!
  And then bring me back with raises and promotions that I would have
  had if I'd stayed at WORK instead of having babies.
  
  Oh, my wrist hurts! Let me take off a year and a half for some piddly
  little surgery and rehab! And then I want my old job back plus a cost
  of living raise! Wah! goo goo!
  
  Yes, I personally have a work ethic. I work hard and I'm smart. All
  it's gotten me is the hatred and fear of coworkers and supervisors.
  If there is a company or organization in the US that actually rewards
  hard work and intelligence and honesty, I haven't heard of it. It
  probably went bankrupt in the friggin 1930's.
  
  
  Take back your time, my ass. Sit down, shut up, and WORK, goddamnit.
  I'm sick of being the only one working.
  
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  Capitalism is so screwey--it totally plays to the lowest common
  denominator. Make the shoddiest possible product & sell it for the
  most possible profit. Work your people as hard as you can and pay
  them the least amount you can get away with. Which makes your
  employees work sloppier, the product shoddier, and gives them less $$
  to put back into the capitalist system by spending it on shoddy
  products made by other overworked, underpaid shmucks. (that is,
  assuming any products are even fuckin made in the US anymore. If not
  insert 'service' into all 'product' spaces above and it's the same
  damn thing.) I dont' know how (or whether!) these other countries do
  business like we do...but there must be something different going on
  over there. If you walked in here tomorrow and said it was going to a
  30 hour work week and every employee gets 30 vacation days a year,
  our production would go down the toilet. Not that the same amount of
  work couldn't be done in less time, as I've proven to myself.
  But...why bother?