I realized something that makes me feel less pissed off in general.

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

We all know there are lines of work that, by their very nature, damage the body of its workers. Maybe poisonous stuff get to the lungs. Maybe you're carrying heavy stuff and that'll destroy your back. Maybe intense lights are slowly burning your retina.

Well, that can happen to the mind too. I now am of the opinion there are lines of work that people can't take on without essentially mind-raping themselves into an ugly, unpleasant personality.

With that in mind, lots of people that I despised for being jerks and bastards aren't despised any more.

That will be all. Have a nice day.

[Warpy]

1. That's quite an insight

but mine always starts off with the fact that I'd rather see such people than ever be them.

I've been peon and management and generally the quickest way to get me to quit a job is to promote me into management for much of the reason you cited above.

[KansDem]

2. I'm curious...

...the quickest way to get me to quit a job is to promote me into management...

I noticed in recent years that those in management or administration really don't posses problem-solving skills or critical thought. They seem to wear the right clothes, the right jewelry and hairstyle, and can do "corpospeak" but beyond that, they are generally shallow.

They tend to "suck up" and "step down."

I used to believe they were "the best and the brightest" but am now perplexed as to how they were even hired in the first place...

I now believe those individuals who "climb the ladder" really have no brains or skills other than they don't pose a threat to immediate supervisor or the ones at the very top.

[The empressof all]

4. To survive in middle management anyways...

You need to be able to divorce yourself from your soul for most of the day. That kind of Compartmentalization is hard on the spirit for most. Some turn off all together and absorb into the corporate think or just burn out. I did it for years....and really had to work on my attitude on a daily basis. My staff and my employers were clueless....

[The empressof all]

3. I don't know.....

When I hear the "It's not personal it's just business" mantra of corporate America I still get the urge to stick my knee in someones unmentionables.

[Cleita]

5. I don't believe a job should ruin your health or

your life in the future. I know there are dangerous jobs like being a policeman, but just showing up to work everyday shouldn't lead to disability down the line. There are ways with effort and commitment and maybe spending some money on ergonomic paraphernalia that many of the dangers or disabling aspects of a job can be lessened or even eliminated, but what I have seen today is no effort by management to even try unless pushed to by a union or a lawsuit.

[raouldukelives]

6. We are a Christian nation

Who abandon faith 9-5 M-F.

[Fumesucker]

7. Actually I think that's all the time except possibly on Sunday from 11am to noon..

Or thereabouts..

[Adsos Letter]

8. It gets abandoned then, too, from my experience...

"Did you see what she was wearing?!"

"I hear (insert name here) kid is into (insert unacceptable behavior here)."

"Did you see (insert name here) checking out (insert name here); I heard the marriage isn't relly working out."

and on, and on...

[pipi_k]

9. Hah...I remember one of my sisters, the Born Again...

telling me, years ago, about all the back biting and stabbing that went on, even on Sundays, in her church.

I suppose I shouldn't have been surprised, but since she and her husband liked to call me a "heathen", I was. Church backstabbers go to Heaven. Non backstabbing heathens go to Hell.


sigh...

whatever

:shrug: