Why should you be fired from your job?I spent three years "working" in the Ministry of Agriculture carefully crafting projectiles out of folded paper and drawing pins that I would then fire at colleagues with an elastic band. On discovering I'd been conducting all-out warfare when I should really have been in a field counting cows, I was asked to "reconsider my career options" outside the service.
Why, then, should you be fired from your job?
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Scaryduck LIKES EGG, Thu 9 Aug 2007, 13:04)
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I'm Dole Fodder and I know itAs an IT contractor I won't be sacked but almost certainly won't have my contract renewed.
As an internet junkie, I tend to let browsing take charge to the detriment of any work. There tends to be a tipping point somewhere in the project where I go into "Couldn't give a fuck" mode and cease all pretence at doing any work. I'll leave the browser window in plain view and won't care who sees me typing away on bulletin boards.
I also have an 'unfortunate' tendency to tell managers that their love of acronym bingo and eleventythousand meetings a day is a waste of everybody's time and that they can count me out. If I *have* to make an appearance, my sullen-voiced "Are we done yet? Can I leave now?" refrain makes them wish they hadn't invited me in the first place.
Christ only knows how many errors in software I've failed to spot over the years and the thousands of test case scenarios ticked with a 'Pass' just so I could get back to browsing. Fuck 'em, by the time the post-project post-mortem is done, I'll be long gone and well on my way to pissing off a whole new bunch of middle managers somewhere else.
I'm a sham and a fraud and I'll go down in flames some day when I'm finally shown up for the workshy slacker that I am. I'm the scourge of line managers everywhere as I need constant poking with a stick to get me to do anything.
(, Thu 9 Aug 2007, 16:39, Reply)
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