You know I've been retired, well laid off anyway for over a week now and you'd think I would have
more time to post here but hell I've been avoiding it for some reason. But you know I've delt with it now and think
I've worked through some things and, oh who am I fooling? No one but me's reading this dribble anyway.
So after eleven and a half years boom out the door. Some how I know there have been people
that have been rooting for this to happen for some time there. Of course no matter how much we all want to believe it
all of us are expendable at work. If I was younger I probably would have gone apeshit over it, but now what's the point?
It's not going to prove anything and certainly not going to help find another job. Not to say that it didn't hurt.
The interesting part was I have seen this coming for some time now and loosing sleep over it, but when it happened I was actually
relieved. I have really hated my job for the past three years and have been looking for something new. Of course
I was hoping to find something new before loosing my current job but as it goes life is what happens when you are making other
plans.
It did start me to pondering what kind of loyalty do employers think they are going to get these
days if the desicion to lay people off is based only on salary? That seems to put people in the Office Space frame of
mind. "I'm only going to work hard enough to not get fired." What else is their modivation then? Christ
I worked for nearly twelve years in the same place and was rarely rewarded for the hard work. the attitude today seems
to be something along the line of, "Well he seems to work hard and not complain, we'll have to take total advantage of that."
Damn the propaganda of TV and film, screwed me over again. All those years showing the underdog getting ahead by working
hard, that doesn't work!
Work has always fasinated me anyway, I am all for working after all the past week and half has been
boring as hell. However I'm the first to admit that I'm not going to kill my self over a job. That is primarily
why I'm not all that wealthy right now. In fact let's go there for a moment. Now looking at the people that have
a butt load of money the one thing I've noticed is they are not happy people. Why? Easy, they have the most to
loose, so with that what's the good of having that much if it is so easily lost. In the last few years I have had to
come to terms with another truism that I never wanted to believe, money can't buy you happiness, and Weird Al was right it
can rent it.
The people that work their ass off and have a lot of money don't seem to get to enjoy it much.
In my case when I'm at work I work my ass off when necessary but I don't really think life is working twelve or more hours
a day. I want to enjoy life now, not thirty years from now. Some of those that are waiting don't even make it
that far, they work themselves to death. Fuck that.
Back to something I was getting to earlier. I get my work done and make sure I have some goof
off time it's the best way to blow off steam. What has always amazed me is the people that I work with that are just
the "What you expect me to work? Isn't showing up everyonce in a while enough?" type people. I'm not even that
lazy and believe me I can be lazy, I'm lucking to see ten in the morning on week ends.
Of course there is one flaw in my money arguement, the lottery if I won that it get's money with
out the hard work and coincodently happiness.
Maybe it's just me.
