My boss is utterly useless at business and his time would be better spent fucking about all day and not contributing to the running of the company in any way whatsoever
which is pretty much what happens. The only thing that keeps our business afloat is many of the drivers, a hard-core of dedicated customers and, I'm modestly told, me on the phones during the dayshift. I'm technically self-employed, I earn £5 an hour, I don't get paid for hours I don't work, there are no benefits apart from occasional free lifts to work and back, my office is the grubbiest little shithole from hell and it breaks my soul to get up every day and go to work.

It sounds like I'm complaining, but I'm not. It's a job, an income, in a town where the job market has been stagnant for longer than a year. Daughter and I survive on the money with a little help, I get to piss about on the internet all day (which I'm sure will be evidenced in TGB's next graph), I'm on first-name terms with many of our customers, some of the drivers are fantastically wonderful people, I finish work at 3pm most days meaning I have a whole portion of day once I leave, and last but not least it just about beats lying around in bed all day feeling sorry for myself.
( Noeli overtheshoulderboulderholderthingstraplatchboobs, Thu 14 Apr 2011, 16:02, Reply)