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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You even have to ask?I'm on b3ta, Livejournal or some other forums half of the time. The best part of the remainder is spent chatting to friends, taking extended smoke/bathroom/snack breaks and the bit that's left over is for actual work.
I can spend hours daydreaming whilst staring blankly at the computer screen--interspersed with occasional 'gosh, I just can't figure it out' or 'this is soooo frustrating' followed by a bit of typing or clicking, lets people think you're looking really hard at a bit of code. (No one else in this office knows the first thing about programming.)
When I first started, I had no set hours, and would come in a couple hours one day, a few the next, often missing meetings, blatantly reading forums in front of my boss, bringing in a big lunch and spending an hour slowly eating, never being less than half an hour late to when I said I'd be there, etc...but lately I've gotten much better at appearing diligent. Some days I'll stay late just to fiddle around on my laptop (hourly wages and all that).
Frankly, I'm a starving student at a shit university, the very same that is unwittingly paying me to type this post up right now. I've been milking the 10$ an hour for all it's worth, and I intend to do so for the next year or so, until I can escape from this vile institution.
Previous jobs: Comic book store, read the comics and watched cartoons all day (far too much of my pay went back into the store, what with me taking advantage of the employee discount); computer hardware and repair store, watched movies and took excessive smoke breaks; math tutor, slept on the sofa in the tutoring room until it was time to go home or brought in my consoles and tried to play games on the stone-age teevee.
Was only fired from one of those; the rest I quit because the boredom was too much. Now I can skive off in a relatively comfortable office, for relatively good pay, and don't have to deal with customers.
Guilt? Apologies? None--as this is the first qotw I've had a decent reply for.
(, Fri 10 Aug 2007, 2:21, Reply)
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