That's Why They Call It Work
That is what I say to the wife in the morning as she bemoans that she doesn't like/want to go to her job. "But that's why the call it work", I say. Well, this morning she appropriately threw that phrase in my face. I was complaining about having to spend the day at a client's babysitting their A/V equipment for a policy meeting. I hindsight it wasn't such a bad day - just mind-numbing. Made even more so by my recent mantra to shun manual, repetitious labor for high-concept, high end creative works.
Still, these gigs are all bad. The free food - tea, scones, muffins, sandwiches - help the hours pass. For the eight hours I spent there I only did two things - place a call to the UK and manipulate Powerpoint slides which only took 90 minutes of my eight-hour work day. The rest of the time I surreptitiously read Wired magazines I brought from home.
posted by Jason @ 7:35 PM
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4 Comments:
Amen to that. Thank god for blogger...
And I enjoy the Futurama reference in your title - where would we be without Elzar and his spice weasel?
Hey, Owen.
Cheers for the Futurama catch. The 'spice weasel' gag was one of the 1st things that endeared me to the Futurama series. Great series - it was bittersweet buying the 4th and last DVD.
I think I would hit someone in the head with a large, blunt heavy object if they told me in the morning that "that's why it's work" when I was whining that I didn't want to go and that I hate it (which I have been known to do from time to time). Lucky for you Dawn seems to not have the violent tendencies that I do ;-) haha.
It helps that she's sleepy. She doesn't yet have the where-with-all to bonk me over the head that early in the morning
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