Comments on: Back to work

By: Mattface

Mattface — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 11:33:19 +0000

Your descriptions of office drudgery evoke Fight Club’s sleep deprived montage of Ed Norton’s numbed daily existence before he met Tyler.

You should probably find a new line of work before you create an alternate personality and found a terrorist organization.

Or not. That does have a certain appeal to it.

By: Yakoub

Yakoub — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 21:02:20 +0000

I’ve managed to avoid your kind of working life — I swore I always would after 9 months in a solicitors office in EC4, aged 17. Mind you, I’ve spent a good part of the last 15 years sorting my severely autistic son out, to the point where I’m now almost completely fucked, mentally and physically. Even if I had been spared this messy, exhausting life, which I didn’t choose, I would have stayed with my quest to do interesting things, from getting stoned on the dole to working as a receptionist for a local authority housing department to shovelling shit at a riding schools to teaching E2L infants. You too can have this lifestyle. Just do it. The truth is out there. The pay is crap, though. Sometimes.

By: Doxie

Doxie — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 17:04:32 +0000

Brought tears to my eyes. I don’t know what else to say.

By: Colin Davey

Colin Davey — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 12:32:34 +0000

If “welcome back” is inappropriate, sorry!

Top of the Inbox, we need you to tackle Desmond/ Channel 5. My desk please, earliest convenience. In triplicate.

By: Charlie

Charlie — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 10:06:04 +0000

Crikey, I feel sorry for you!

By: QueenB

QueenB — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 08:34:40 +0000

Quit if you hate it so much.

By: George W. Potter

George W. Potter — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 08:21:49 +0000

I’d say that it’s worth remembering that one always has a choice and possibilities before one. One could, for example, hop onto a train to London at 12.15pm and have completely disappeared into the great metropolis by evening, turning one’s back on all that one knew before. In practice it would be extremely difficult for most people to do this, because of family and friends and commitments and so on. Likewise one could randomly punch the next person one sees, after all, there’s nothing to stop one but the potential consequences. It might not be much, but to me it has always been very helpful to remember how much freedom we actually have if we wanted to take it.

By: CjEggett

CjEggett — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 08:12:14 +0000

Disconnect?

Modern life is fundamentally upsetting.

By: Red the Ragmatical Runagate

Red the Ragmatical Runagate — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 02:05:03 +0000

I, in my capacity as a …oh, I don’t know …lets say I’m a Doctor, recommend a few drops of LSD, and a nice long walk in the countryside – parts of Kent are just simply quite beautifully post-card-esque – far away from, and I hate to phrase it such, but, …the SYSTEM! (makes me feel a bit stereotypical, but it is what is it and it gets the conceptual point across. No laughing at the back!). Much like the traditional ‘trip’, it helps one to ‘get away’ from the usual horror and decay that one finds thrust upon thyself continually, and in such heavy, barraging, discouraging flow. However, one (well, this one at least) feels so refreshed, that the usual melancholic setting of such melodramatic malody is refurbished in a new light; and one finds one way once more up the path of life lived with merriment and rapturous delight.

(Although I daren’t think what will happen to this charming site if that actually happened). (I mean, I don’t think reading the Daily Mail is even remotely compatible with what I just wrote). (Why, even reading about yourself reading the Daily Mail increases my bile thricely, so it does). (.)

Anyways, it completely re-invigorates one’s soul from its very core*, I say (not the Daily Mail, t’other stuff before), and – get this, Tony – can even renew one’s dwindling love of the England** that we so inhabitate suchly.

WARNING:

Side-effects may include: lack of focus, increased difficulty in urination, too much focus, bliss, realisation, the possibility of chucking in your job/life to go live in the wild amongst the trees and the fauna, erectile conundrum, and ‘false-nose’ appeciation syndrome.

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*Set & setting dependant. Consult your local dealership.
**OK, kinda dependant on all kinds of crazy factors, but it can, I swears it! (Try to avoid the people) …(it helps, is all I’m saying).

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DISCLAIMER: Working the long, slow night shift right now (at a secret, undisclosed (redundant?) location). Thanking you for helping me, unwittingly, (you sly devil, you) to pass the time with mirth and so much shirked responsibility.

I take no responsibility, legal or otherwise, for what I have said.
Or what happens next.

By: Suva

Suva — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 20:58:46 +0000

Or you could be straight out of University wanting to work and find yourself stuck on the dole for a year. Applying for hundreds of roles and never even getting a response. Knowing that your next holiday abroad is going to be years away. The grass is always greener and perspective is everything.