Shit Job All The Way
By ice rivers
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Perhaps we've all had shitty jobs accentuated by shitty bosses.
Towards the end of the twentieth century I thought that by the 21rst century we'd be past this syndrome what with all the degrees in management etc but I don't see much difference from my first job.
A shit job is a shit job all the way; poor pay, random schedule, fearful motivation, arbitrary dismissals, massive turnover,horrible management through low budget bosses who thought THEIR jobs were expandable and soon found out the jobs were expendable and in order to survive became, petrified power hungry posers, drinking too much Kool-Aid and forgetting to be competent in desperate moves to climb illusionary ladders of success by trampling upon whomever is at a lower rung while playing a humiliating game of follow the follower to nowhere.
Yeah
At least my early bosses had the courtesy of being drunk and not even bothering to hide their drinking.
I worked for the city on a ground crew and the old geezers who were my bosses and hated "college assholes" used to start and finish every day with visits to taverns for shots while me and my buddy waited in the back of the dump truck on our way to the dump.
Of course those old geezers back then were probably younger than I am now so maybe I should forgive 'em..they were just kids.
Oh, I forgot, I forgave them every day back then because the more time they took in the bars, the less time I had to do the shitty tasks that constituted this shitty job and the more time I could spend with my buddy in the back of the truck complaining about the shitty job we had and how we would never do this kind of work ever again.
He went on to graduate from Pratt and actually became an artist.
I also became an artist. I became a teacher. THAT, was a good job.
For all of those years as a teacher, I really didn't have any idea how shitty a shit job could be; so I operated under the illusion that everybody had good jobs like mine. Avocation was vocation.
Then I retired and spent a few years doing shit jobs in a stormy voyage of discovery where I was continually checking for leaks which my supervisors like 26 year old Skip mistook as rocking the boat.
Believe me there's a big difference.
That's when I began to fully realize more about the rage engaged within the American working ethic and how thankful we should all be when we don't have a shit job.
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