Posted on 10/13/2007 5:30:47 PM PDT by decimon
No it is listening to NPR all day. I have a co-worker (afile clerk) who listens to NPR in the file room. It dawned on me after being down there for 20 minutes or so why libs are so upset all of the time. It was just one negative headline after another. I had this horrible urge to jump out of a window (just kidding). Seriously though, it was some depressing stuff!
I wonder if this is because women are more likely to have conscious or subconscious longing, guilt, anxiety, etc., about not being home with their children.
As a naturally lazy individual, that's my plan too.
A co-worker asked me if I'm going to work after I retire. I told her only people with a guilty conscience feel the need to work their whole life away and I'm as innocent as a new born babe.
About 10 years ago... my Mom quit a job at the Treasury Dept. She was black-balled by co-workers for "over-producing" and making the rest of them look bad. After having been praised in front of everyone for her high productivity... she'd come to work and find things missing from her desk or equipment broken. After enduring this harrassment for 6 months...she threw in the towel.
No offense, but nobody here should be posting anything saying they are depressed. We may have some government-paid psychologists out there reading your comments and building up evidence to take away your firearms. /semi-sarc
I used to call it “walking a tightrope over a pride of lions” or “juggling chainsaws”. Sound about right?
I'm a conservative who has suffered from depression, and I've had several family members with similar problems. I suspect that any real survey would find depression equally distributed among political ideologies.
Bill
LOL Engineers just aren't sensitive enough and artsy enough to realize they are truly depressed. /s
I'll take the bennies in sick (beach) days and will call it quits. Think of the savings in therapy!
If Hillary is elected, we will rejoice because this website will explode as it did during Monicagate.
BUMP
More like a pit of snakes. The short story is that you had to become a snake yourself to fight back.
I didn't want this to become a personal whine session so I'll jump to the philosophy. We went through a few decades where too many US companies were complacent (and so, corrupt) for lack of effective competition. Those companies are now going through a painful readjustment in having to do things the right way so to battle their new competitors.
Forget the cowbell, what we've needed is more FMC (Free Market Capitalism) and we're starting to get it.
Bronzy,
You need a all-consuming goal, a vision of an improved personal future, a mission that will occupy your time and energy. Start studying or working on something new unrelated to your job, that will take several years to accomplish, and bring hope into your life.
thanks, bfl
I received a lot of grief at one union shop, but I’ve never been punished for excellence on the job.
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I have! Of course it wasn’t CALLED punishment, it was just that more and more work was piled onto me and I was shifted around to wherever there was more need for someone who would give it his all and I was given more responsibility with no corresponding monetary compensation. I finally said to hell with it and retired five years earlier than I wanted to. I now work part-time at the same place and have about ten percent of the strain on me for the same hourly rate, I see people who never worked half as hard as I did when I was full time making more money than anyone else. One woman who never actually was able to handle the whole job is now in line for a job that pays about forty percent more than anyone else is getting simply because she has seniority. This is a NON-union employer, by the way.
Maybe you should be working for another company.
I can certainly sympathize with your mom’s situation. It’s a shame, especially so from the US government unions. Sad.
Maybe you should be working for another company.
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Actually, as a part time job I love it! Working full time was a different matter altogether, and I never would have worked there at all if not for the fact that I was too old to get an interview for a decent job. At my age nobody cares what I can do, only that I am sixty three.
And that's what has kept countless Floridians depressed.:)
Yes, those were some really great days, and the HillBilly humor threads were priceless.)
But you're really lucky you weren't here in 2000 during the 36 days of the 3 county Florida voting ballot recount.
An emotional rollercoaster doesn't begin to describe it, and many of us still go postal if the term 'hanging chad' is ever mentioned.;)
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