I've worked A
LOT of shitty jobs.
… I mean, A
LOT...
… I mean, A
LOT of shitty jobs!
In fact, the
shitty jobs FAR outnumber the “decent” jobs... and I don't think
I'm alone in saying that... I know a lot of people who have floated
from one miserable experience to another, hoping to find something
where they just feel valued in one way or another; only to find
themselves repeatedly in a place where they just get shit on all day,
for shitty pay, with a shitty boss, and shitty customers, and shitty
conditions, and a shitty atmosphere, and absolutely no recognition
for good work... you get the point...
… which begs
the question... what exactly DEFINES a “shitty job?”
Well, let's see
here... some people might see it as the job, itself... cleaning
port-o-potties or outhouses, for example... or cleaning up
blood-splattered crime scenes... or cleaning roadkill off the
pavement...
Some people
might see it as bad working conditions; be it safety or climate
related.
Some might see
it as a job where there's no chance of advancement.
There are those
who might suggest it's a hostile work environment; maybe you work
with an ex; or maybe you just work with a dick, or a few dicks; or
maybe it's because you CAN'T KEEP YOUR DICK IN YOUR PANTS.
Some might say
it's a job with shitty pay, or a job where you're not paid what
you're worth.
Some might see
it in the “Horrible Bosses” sense.
Some might
compare it to “Fight Club” or “American Beauty.” You know...
a job where you're miserable just because the job is a bad fit for
you... you just hate what you do.
I've had all of
these scenarios... some where I had several of these issues at once.
I've had shitty
bosses that screamed in my face for taking five seconds to hang up my
coat, after clocking in AHEAD of time.
I've had jobs
where the company was so big that nobody had any kind of voice.
I've had jobs
that would really be better positioned if they burned to the ground.
I've had a job
where “part time” was 39 ½ hours; but you were still expected to
work as many as 84 hours a week (seven twelve-hour shifts), if the
deadlines called for overtime (translation: they didn't have to pay
for benefits... cheap bastards).
I had a job at
a movie theater where we had a RAW SEWAGE LEAK behind the concessions
stand. I was wading through three inches of shit and piss while
serving popcorn, candy, hot dogs, nachos, and soda to people who
wanted to save a few bucks by going to a “value” movie theater.
Then, they decided to vacuum up the mess with a shop vac (with a
frayed power cord), and told us all to get back to work before the
9:00 rush.
I had a job
where I was getting paid EIGHT DOLLARS A DAY, working FULL-TIME!
(fuckin' telemarketing... I'll never do THAT again...)
… and that's
just scratching the surface...
The common
theme: the people at the top didn't give a shit about any of the rest
of us. The size of the company didn't matter... one of them only had
about 150 employees. But while WE were just scraping by, the
douchebags who ran the company were gallivanting around the world
collecting their rare hunting trophies from every continent (which
had their own HOUSE... yeah... a whole HOUSE... just for their
hunting trophies... every room made up to be a different continent...
doesn't it just make you sick?).
They hide
themselves from us in their gated communities and on their yachts.
They go places where they don't even have to look upon the poor.
They isolate themselves completely from us, so they can maintain
their delusion that they're better than the rest of us!
Mitt Romney's
47% comments (and really, the entire tape) illustrates this fact in
spades. They simply don't see us as humans at all. They see us as
rodents and cockroaches. They see us as scavengers, who are always
trying to take from the REAL humans... (that being the rich, of
course)
… and you
know what?
… they're
right (in a way)...
… we're NOT
humans anymore...
… we're
something MORE than 'just' humans...
We're not SOFT,
like them... we haven't been PAMPERED our whole lives... we don't
have the cleaning staff, or the cooks, or the drivers, or the
butlers... we do OUR OWN work! We clean OUR OWN houses! We cook OUR
OWN food! We drive OUR OWN cars! We maintain OUR OWN lawns! We
shovel OUR OWN walks and driveways! Those wealthy fucks are SOFT ASS
PUSSIES because they've never actually had to do any WORK!
WE possess
COMPASSION... something they lack entirely. We possess HUMILITY! We
possess the HUMAN qualities that THEY DON'T!
Here's the
fact, people...
We're the ones
who've been hardened by our work!
We're the ones
who've earned our muscles and callouses the HARD WAY; rather than in
some cushy gym!
We're the ones
who endure the harsh conditions in the warehouses, and in the
factories, and on the roads!
We're the ones
who've taken EVERY STINKIN' PILE OF SHIT they've shoveled at us, and
WE'RE STILL STANDING!!!
That shows that
we're resilient... It shows that we can't be stepped on that easily!
We need to USE
that resilience to CRUSH THESE FUCKERS!!! We need to show them that
WE'RE NOT THE INSECTS THEY THINK WE ARE!
Why am I
writing this?
Why am I saying
all the things I've said 10,000 times before?
Why am I
repeating all this again?
… because I
want a better world...
… because I
see the powers that need to crumble... and it's not the government,
as many have been deceived to believe...
… it's the
shitwaffles that are CONTROLLING government!
To solve ANY
problem, it's best to attack it DIRECTLY at the root; and my friends,
the root is all that dirty money that's being shoved at the people we
elect by sub-human, narcissistic, worthless, elitist, fuckers with
bank accounts that could be featured on an episode of “Hoarders!”
… and WE'RE
the ones that have to do it! They're not just BUYING government;
they ARE government! You can't seriously expect the rich to regulate
their own income, can you???
Then again, why
not? I mean, we allow Monsanto to regulate itself, and oil companies
to regulate themselves, and banks to regulate themselves... I mean,
they have members on all the regulatory boards, so I guess we DO
expect them to regulate themselves... wow... they're doing a REALLY
shitty job...
WE have to take
the initiative to fuck 'em! WE have to do it, because nobody else is
gonna!
… and we have
to do it...
… because
we're SO MUCH MORE than 'just' humans!