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| Join The Workforce? I'll Pass (Updated 3/31/08) | 3/16/07 |
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I'm 26 and I haven't worked in over 4 years now. Relatives and other people constantly insist: "You have to get a job. You have to work." WHY!? Cause YOU fucking say so? "That's how life works." Well, I disagree. Basically, I don't give a flying fuck how everyone thinks life works. I think it's bullshit. Spend half your life in school putting up with shit and learning mostly pointless garbage that's not in any way useful for a career, and spend the other half punching a time clock at some company that doesn't give a rat's ass about you. I just have no desire to become a working stiff. Busting your balls just to break even/survive is stupid. My father's done the labor thing all his life (farm kid). He's had 6 back surgeries for his trouble. Why do we do it? Why do we agree to dedicate 40-60 hours a week to some goddamn company? When you break it down, an 8 hour day really blows about 10 hours depending on your commute. If you drive 25 minutes to and from work and have a 30 minute or 60 minute lunch, that's shooting another hour or more out of your day. Not to mention the cost of gas and eating lunch out. Add in taxes and you're really not making much after everyday expenses. I would never give up 5 days out of my week again. Really, I just won't work again. I don't like getting up early in the morning, so that rules out day turn. If I actually had something to do in the evening, afternoon turn and midnights would fuck that up. I can't see only having 2 days of true freedom per week. Fuck that. Give me welfare/disability and food stamps. Just as good. These days, you're either rich or your fucked anyway, so why kill yourself just to break even? Guess what, all those bullshit taxes you pay are either going in the pockets of lazy bastards like me, to old farts that should've been put to sleep already, or to other lame ass causes. What about health insurance? It's free if you're a welfare bum, but if you actually make money then you have to pay for that shit too. Basically, you're fucked either way. Why be stuck in the middle of the food chain busting your ass to barely break even. If you're not rich, you may as well be a welfare bum. Plenty of people work themselves to death 5, 6, even 7 days a week while they pretty much have the same quality of life that people on welfare do. The only difference is the people that work have a lot less free time. Take waitresses as an example. They can spend 8 hours waiting tables and leave with less than 20 dollars in tips. That's not even enough for gas anymore! They only make like $2 an hour for being there, so where's the upside? "What if I told you insane was working fifty hours a week in some office for fifty years at the end of which they tell you to piss off; ending up in some retirement village hoping to die before suffering the indignity of not being able to make it to the toilet in time? Wouldn't you consider that to be insane?" ~ Garland Green (Con Air) People work so hard planning a life for themselves, they're really just letting life pass them by. Big deal, you can save up some money thinking you'll have fun when you retire, but you don't realize how pointless that is. By the time you're old enough to retire, you're too old to enjoy it! You have all kinds of health problems, arthritis, alzheimers, etc. You'll just sit in front of the tv, or sit outside on your porch like an idiot watching everybody. You'll be living off Social Security, if it's still there, and wishing you hadn't wasted so goddamn much of your youth trying to plan your future. "The future is right now." Think you've got the world figured out? Take your head out of your ass and wipe the shit from your eyes. Think about your daily routine and think about how much time you waste on shit you'd rather not be doing. You only get one chance. Look at the way the guy on Titanic (Jack Dawson) lived, and he loved it. You know the saying, "all work and no play..." That's what I'm talking about. Too many people don't bother with any kind of social life. They work 2 jobs trying to pay for college or shit, and never really take time to enjoy themselves. I look at society, and all I see is bullshit. They make kids get up at 5 in the morning to get to school on time, load them up with so much homework they spend half the goddamn night doing it, and they think it actually means something. You're only a kid once. You shouldn't be expected to spend all day and night on school activities. When I was in school, I almost never brought schoolwork (or books) home. When you're at school, that's their time. When you're home, that's YOUR time! Note to all teachers: YOU SUCK! Then the college bound tend to work their asses off, study for hours, and keep the goddman coffee joints in business even though they're not even learning anything useful for a career. When I went for Networking (which wasn't my main interest anyway) none of the classes for the major even covered anything useful for a career. It was all garbage. So why am I paying to learn this bullshit? I quit. People talk about getting the college education so they can get a good job, Not "good" as in fun, but "good" as in $$$$$$$. My cousin is exactly the kind of person I hate. She went for nursing because it pays good and nurses are always in demand, not because she has any interest in helping anyone but herself. Luckily she flunked out anyway, but she's still trying to get an LPN instead of the RN. Bitches like her are the reason there are so many medical mistakes these days. Hell, look at all these people getting laid off because the companies are moving overseas or shutting down. There's no job security anymore. Deal with it. You're all expendable, so don't kill yourself trying to seem useful. Unions need to go too. You shouldn't be forced to join the goddamn union when you work at certain places. Hell, they automatically deduct union dues from your check. What the fuck right do they have to touch my paycheck? You're not the goddamn IRS, so fuck off. I worked a union store and a non-union store. I have to say, I liked the non-union store better. May just be store policy, but the union store was always more annoying. I had a manager on my ass just because I punched back in from breaks too soon. Bite my ass. It's all in the computer, and it takes longer to locate and bitch at me than it does to fix, so shut the fuck up. At the non-union store I didn't even have to punch for 15 minute breaks. My guess always was the store had to prove to the union everyone was getting their breaks. Whatever the case, it still pissed me off. People also shouldn't have the right to go on strike. I'm tired of hearing about that shit on the news. Either work for what the company is paying, or go look for a new fuckin job. It's that simple. Companies shouldn't be run by the union assholes. Those assholes with picket signs deserve to get run over by management. Fuck them. I worked at Wally World for a summer. They were remodeling that year, so I got stuck on the remodeling crew. We worked midnights, so at least there weren't any customers around to annoy us. I hate people, in case you hadn't noticed. Anyway, there were nights I ended up stocking shelves. When you got a pile of cardboard, you couldn't just take it back and throw it in the bailer. Nah, those are locked. Apparently, it's such a sophisticated piece of equipment, that only the mangers have keys to it. I'm supposed to page a manager to unlock the fucking thing so I can throw cardboard in it. W-h-a-t t-h-e f-u-c-k? If you want to move a pallet, you have the same problem too. The power jacks and walker-stackers all require keys, which again, only a manager has. Sure, you can use an old hand jack, but not if there's a power jack parked under the pallet you fucking need! You can't even move the goddamn thing without a key. It's stupidity at its best. Then, I worked at a grocery store. They stuck me in Dairy & Frozen food, which was fuckin cold, as you might imagine. The bailers were locked here too, but the key is in a desk drawer or hanging on the wall right near by. It's more convenient, but it's still fuckin stupid. I started leaving the lock off since I was the only one that was really near that particular bailer most of the night. Naturally, I got chewed out by the store manager about it every once in a while. I hated that store manager from the beginning though. I was stocking ice cream one day and a customer asked me for some item that was on special in grocery. Not knowing how the grocery backroom was organized, and just naturally being lazy about it, I asked another guy in the back. While I'm talking to him, I notice this trail of sugar on the floor leading from Receiving all the way down the hall; it was leaked from a pallet that just got unloaded. The store manager came around the corner and immediately asked if I was on break. Obviously, I wasn't. She says, "Clean up that sugar." Fuck you bitch. I'm not a Grocery clerk, I'm damn well not Maintenance, and I have a cart of ice cream on the sales floor. Clean up your own fuckin sugar. Now, my boss agreed with me and commented that the grocery manager never would've asked me to do shit. I was on the store manager's bad side now though. Another thing I got into shit over was not checking prices for customers when the tags were missing. Is it MY fault the goddamn tags keep falling off the shelves? I don't have a price scanner up my ass. Go away. Toward the end of my illuminating career as a stock boy, this same store manager instituted a 5 minute meeting for each shift. Everyone is expected to drop what they're doing and go listen to this bitch (or whatever manager is there) spew the daily stats. I don't care what the store projected, what the actual sales were, or what they think it might do tomorrow. All I care about is getting the work done, collecting my paycheck, and going the fuck home. When asked why I was ignoring the meetings, I flat out told the store manager that I didn't give a shit. I was nearly fired for insubordination that day. If I wasn't one of the hardest workers they had, they probably wouldn't have put up with me nearly as long as they did. If I was really being myself, like now, I would've been lucky to last a week. Don't even get me started on "careers" in the military. Why do people think it's so great to serve their country? You're not serving shit. All you're learning to do is follow orders, which is pretty much expected at any type of job and all through your fuckin childhood. Personally, I'm tired of being told what the fuck to do. They don't want free thinking individuals. They want brainwashed fucking robots. Why do you have to enlist? Why can't you quit like other jobs? Because if they let people walk away when they wanted to, they'd have one small fuckin army. So much for freedom. And what's with the hair cuts? Does your hair need to be a specific weight to aim accurately? Fuck off. Let us not forget the children and others who suffer because they're part of a military family. Not only does your father/husband think he's the commander and chief of the fucking household, but you also have to leave town whenever the fuck the military decides to reassign his ass for any reason they please with no fucking choice in the matter. You get to leave your friends and all you know behind and start over somewhere else for an undetermined amount of time. Bullshit. Pure and utter bullshit. | |
