Moanday. According to the Overlord herself, Moanday is the day of the week when you moan that you don’t want to go to work. You moan through breakfast that you will come down with the flu at any second (you even try a few coughs to hurry it along), you moan while waiting for the FX, and you moan all the way to the office. At the office, you find that your friends are moaning along with you, filling the entire floor with wailing and gnashing of teeth.
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Corpo Days of the Weak
04
Jun 2010
Yuppie Experience: Back to Work
18
Mar 2009
How do I justify to myself that I have to start working again when I know working in another corpo environment sucks big time and is isn’t very interesting at all? (And pays poorly, if I may add.)
Answer: I make realistic-sounding, fool-proof reasons that I shall coin “short-term goals”. Catchy, right?
I’m starting “real work” again on Monday, and will be in another cage without scenery until I get that “dream job” I’ve been aiming for – hopefully, I won’t have to wait for years to realize that one single absurd and utterly pointless “dream” that will put me in a different kind of enclosure. But moving on to the positive side of things, specifically, the “short-term goals”… I’ve just made up some. more…
Things I learned in Corpo – Part 1
09
Oct 2008
Posted by Rio S.
Back when I was still living the hell that was Corpo, I learned a couple of stuff that helped me live through all the bull crap in the office. Of course, corpo’s not all bull crap but you know what I mean. So anyway, here are the things I learned in Corpo:
Thou shalt not shit where you eat.
This is something I learned late in my stay in corpo and let’s just say it’s something that still comes rearing its ugly head and biting me in the ass. Sure, it was good to have something to look forward to as you can see your (in)significant other at the workplace you fantasize burning to the ground. But those kinds of things rarely ever go smoothly and so in the long run, you might find yourself left holding a bag of shit. It becomes especially nightmarish right after the break up since people you work with might have a tendency of (mis)interpreting everything you do as an effect of the said break up. Read: Everything you do is because of HIM. That’s annoying, unless you ARE doing things because of HIM.
It can get ugly too. Imagine crying scenes at the office and – let’s not go there. Plus, the “motivation” you previously had would turn into a great glob of the opposite. Don’t shit where you eat. It’s not only disgusting, it’s unsanitary.
Thou shall keep your friends close, enemies closer.
That’s a general rule anywhere (coming from either Sun Tzu’s Art of War or Niccolo Machiavelli’s The Prince) but it is useful in corpo for obvious reasons. Also, one of the not-so-apparent reasons is that you might find that you can actually get along with some people who appear to be dickwads inside the office. I think the lesson is, most people just find themselves displaying different characteristics in the workplace. I say most because some are just plain dickwads. more…
