Friday, January 04, 2008

Live To Work!

Back at work on Wednesday after our lovely long break and people are saying they were bored at home, desperately missing routine and a reason for getting up in the morning, glad to be back in the office.

How will they cope when it's time to retire? Are we going to have future generations of working 65 plussers, unwilling to get off the treadmill, drawing their pensions and their salaries, accumulating more and more wealth until they're unable to leave their homes?

What is this work ethic bollocks and who's the tosspot who invented it?

25 comments:

  1. They were probably a Protestant or a capitalist. Or both.

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  2. I remember Mark Knopfler once saying he "drove fast to work". People who enjoy themselves so bleeding much should give up their salaries.

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  3. Didn't Knopfler also get a blister on his finger from shifting refrigerators and colour TVs?

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  4. Billy - A cross between Ian Paisley and Rupert Murdoch. What a horrible thought.

    Murph - Was that when he was a teacher? I hope he didn't run over any pupils.

    MJ - He was in business with Sting, selling shite.

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  5. "who invented it?"

    Not a gorilla. I loved arsing about on my free days in the circus. The problem is that humans have lost the ability to have fun (without getting drunk). I blame TV.

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  6. I always thought the guys who couldn't wait to get back to the office must be having an affair with their secretary.

    But just look at Mick Jagger etc... Sometimes I think I must be a bit odd to enjoy 24/7 freedom.

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  7. It's like I think it, and you say it!

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  8. GB - Welcome. Us humans can certainly learn a lot from the animal kingdom. Who's happier in their day off from the circus? The gorilla or the clown?

    Kaz - It's not the men who are itching to get back at our firm, it's the women. Must be my animal magnetism. You've got it right, Kaz. Mick only has to work so hard to keep him in bees.

    Rimshot - I might go into mind reading as a sideline.

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  9. I have to say this; they sound like a sad bunch of colleagues that you have there, Geoff.
    Any normal person craves time off from their job.
    Unless, of course, they happen to be Hugh Hefner.

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  10. Or a very fat, greedy person who works in the Ginsters testing department.

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  11. When the dust settles, after WW3, we will all either be human batteries (matrix) or lost in huge make work bureaucracies (brazil)...either way, my uncle Morty's suggestion to beef up my retirement plan by selling my organs to the Pharmaceutical Corporations sounds like a winner.

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  12. actually as I have to go to work, it would be quite novel to look forward to it instead of dreading it. I wonder how they do that?

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  13. Istvanski - I've heard it on the train, too. They all wanted to get back to their "routines". I'm sure Hugh Hefner needs a break from his ladies now and again.

    Tim - They wouldn't need a company pension.

    HE - As long as you keep your guitars.

    Ziggi - It's mind over matter. Since we spend half our days at work it's not a bad state of mind to get into. I just can't do it personally.

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  14. Oh, in answer to your original question, it was Max Weber.

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  15. Thanks Tim.

    If I were working to please a god, I might get something out of it.

    Maybe I could be Sting's cook.

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  16. I accidentally read that as "Maybe I could be Sting's cock."

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  17. I couldn't. I couldn't stay up all night.

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  18. That usually happens at our place - people are desperate to get 'back to the routine'. Not this year though, I haven't heard a single person expressing relief that they don't have to stay at home a day longer...it's Officially Rubbish here!

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  19. I don't know if they're still happy at work today. The queasy bug kept me off.

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  20. I've been feeling queasy since reading MJ's comment. Didn't induce projectile vomit, though. Yet.

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  21. Sting's music has that effect on me. His sex life makes me laugh.

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  22. I went to work during the Xmas period so I got a couple of days off in lieu - not back to work till 7th. By then I was getting pretty bored of being at home, especially as the weather wasn't nice enough for me to do gardening.

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  23. We've no truck with that "I missed work" shit round my way. I have been off with the delightfully named 'winter vomiting virus' all week and I fucking love it compared to being at my desk.

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  24. Welcome back, Violet.

    I'm sure they'll say the same to you at work.

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  25. And they can piss off. But you're OK though.

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