#corporate grind

[sushi-yaps]

lol. my CFO specifically sent a message singling out the people who came in to work over the holiday weekend to thank them and praised them for going above and beyond. With strong hints that this will be the new normal going forward but he's soo grateful for them despite the challenges.

I remember when they used to have work life balance. when holidays were just that: holidays. and weekends weren't an expectation.

It is exhausting working at this company.

[sushi-yaps]

performance review today after receiving the doc yesterday that ruined my day and made me go into an anxiety spiral and waste about an hour looking at jobs in my area and becoming more hopeless about the job situation.

My cat has lost a pound and the vet gave the usual advice of just try to encourage her to eat which like. sigh. her blood work comes in wed so we shall see.

didn't sleep well. tired. stressed. writing in my journal about the things i hate about my job.

[thecolorfulescape]

November 15th, 2021

Today, my office did not have internet until 15 minutes before we closed. I literally spent my day staring at either my phone or the wall, but we all had to stay there anyway and do nothing. Please excuse me while I go scream into the void. Where’s the whiskey?

[unlickdbearwhelp]

I wish this fuck ass customer I had to deal with today had come at an old black woman, because he woulda got THAT WORK, and not a soft punch to the shoulder. But props to the woman who stood up to this lame, after he called her a "c**t".

OVER SOME GODDAMN POPCORN!

Prayer circle for the kids he says he has. He's clearly abusive.

[eightofswords-blog]

“I had one of those loud conversation cell phone guys behind me at the store today.” I put the grocery bags on the counter and rolled my eyes.

“Oh? What was his conversation about?” Rachel peered into the reusable bags and began pulling out frozen meals, giving me a reproving frown.

“Well, normal work stuff for the most part. You know, reports and estimates and so forth.” I went to the other bag and began loading produce into the fridge, waggling a bunch of celery at her.

“Ugh. Annoying. They don’t’ even have the decency to leave their bureaucratic nonsense in the office. I swear to God, it seems like we can’t escape from that corporate bullshit anywhere.” She took out the mini-cans of soda with another frown. I shrugged and got an eye roll in return.

“Maybe it wasn’t his choice. You know? We were once slaves to the man too.”

“And his loud conversation was you punishment for leaving the grind?”

“Trying to draw me back in. Show me all the fun I’ve been missing.” I folded the bags carefully, laughing nervously.

Rachel looked at me closely. “What is it?”

“Just as I was leaving…” I closed my eyes and rubbed the bridge of my nose. I used to get tension headaches there, when I worked in the corporate world. I used to pull in five hundred gs on a bad year, had a huge house I rarely enjoyed, a big bed I rarely slept in. The headaches had almost killed me. I retired with Rachel to a large house in the country. I found peace in a world of gardening. A world without cell phones. We still had dial-up here.

“Come on, what was it?”

“It will sound silly.” I took a deep breath. “But he was from my old company. I recognized him. One of the up and coming go-getters. You know the time. Like I once was. The sort who would do anything to get ahead. Well, I could have sworn, as I was walking away. That he said he’d found me.”

[munchie-buddy]

Hewhocorrupts - "Master of Profits"

One of the first grind bands I got into. Great and technical and fuck Metallica.