Aaaaahhhhh i feel like shit and i need to rant for a bit
i always want to talk to my mom about the pressures of school and the detrimental effects its having on me but the last time i tried to have this conversation i had already broken down crying from near continuous accusations and she proceeded to tell me that ‘work is more stressful than school, so be glad youre not working’.
oh really…? oh really.
lets take this metaphor to its logical conclusion.
youve recently started a job at a new company. its pretty exciting, and everyone says it will look great on your resume. lots of people that have worked here have gone on to some pretty fancy pants stuff, graphic design, engineering, forensic scientists, you name it.
you wake up about six in the morning, get yourself all gussied up, and off to work. the moment you get there youve got seven new bosses you have to visit and introduce yourself to in one eight hour period. each boss immediately starts teaching you something different at once- this ones teaching proper ettequite when dealing with roudy customers, youve got proper packing techniques over here, how to fix a broken machine- an immediate crash course to everything, even the stuff thats completely out of your feild and you might know diddly about. each boss then gives you a contract to sign and a large stack of paperwork due the next day on how to properly label boxes, ect. not doing either of these on time earns you ridicule and the high possibility of being fired.
and its not just you thats in this. theres about three hundred people just like you, wandering into different offices and being given this obscene amount of day-one papers. they come from all walks of like, girls and guys, rich and poor. some of them are completely rude and idiotic while still doing just enough to keep their job; others are doing top work but are degraded because they were expected to do better.
any amount of creativity or out-of-the-box thinking is outlawed. do it by the book. dont question how we do things. just do it. there is no better way to do this and if you think there is you are wrong. if you even try to defy these rules, you could recieve lower marks on your paperwork and consequently get fired.
and thats not even counting the actual work you have to do every day! even after cramming all of this into your thoughts, youre still probably going to have to work from the time you finish your final boss visit until just about bedtime. so i hope you got a decent lunch packed, because youre in for the long haul!
and even after this, all of your bosses expect you to work with your peers, be sociable and friendly, get enough sleep, always be on time, be a member of a union and attend their meetings, and get all of your work done on time and turned in immediately.
