From Obnostic@erols.com Fri Jul 10 10:16:20 1998
Newsgroups: alt.slack
Subject: Even Doktors Get The Blues
From: Steve Slack <Obnostic@erols.com>
Date: Fri, 10 Jul 1998 13:16:20 -0400
Will you permit me to cry on your shoulders
about job shit for a moment? (Hey, at least
I warned you in advance so you could go to the
next post!)
Today I got a major ass reaming for calling
up a vendor to say I was placing an order BEFORE
I got a price, even though we weren't doing
competetive bidding, we're bought stuff from this
same vendor many times before and we were only
talking about $40 worth of materials. They even
told me what vendor to call!!
When I tried to protest they came back with the
tired old line about how if I fucked up something
this small, I would certainly do it on an order
of thousands of dollars of meterials, blah blah
bleat, and they were gonna nip it in the bud.
Basically they can't trust me to be responsible.
Now I ask you, if someone was breathing down
your neck, ready to jump all over your ass for
the slightest faux pas, could you function
adequately at your job? I would wager a guess
that you'd probably be so nervous all the time
that you'd end up fucking up even worse!!
Every day, or every other day, it's some kind of
shit with these bug-eyed Yosemite Sam acting
screwballs. They'll yell at you for the sake of
yelling at you and act like you're an idiot who
can never do anything right, just becuase you don't
jive with their Limbaugh-loving mentality. They
can fuck up left and right as long as they have
someone else to blame, usually me. And it
certainly doesen't help to be someone who fits
THEIR profile of the stereotypical 'faggot'.
Today's reaming included a big lecture on THEIR
concept of how businessmen operate, distilled
down to: They all lie and they all will fuck you,
along with some absurd generalization that this
is how all the 'librules' in California operate.
When I tried to tell them that not all people
are like this, they said "Mabye 'cause you only
trade with your own family." They don't seem
to understand that their shithead behavior is an
open invitation to be fucked over.
Just the other day I got teased for saving paper
for recycling. "Are you getting paid for it?"
It's part of that whole mentality that if something
doesn't DIRECTLY result in making money, it's not
worth doing.
What's the sense in making a pile of money if
there's no joy in it? But that's how these
sick twisted motherfuckers operate. I don't know
how people can live like this, in this constant
atmosphere of paranoia and defensiveness and mistrust
and fuck-them-before-they-fuck-you. No wonder they're
all getting ulcers and heart attacks and cancer and
obesity and relieving stress by drinking heavily,
shooting guns, and brawling. Oh, but it's all the
fault of the 'librules', and the 'niggers', and the
'mentally defective welfare-cheating college weirdos'.
It's been like this for me, every day, on every job
I've ever worked, for the last FIFTEEN YEARS. And
even though it's been mostly conservative fascists,
I've had my run-ins with smug liberal chickenshits
as well. When they've decided to hire me, that is.
Usually they haven't because I haven't dressed in
whatever trendroid uniform they thought was 'cool'
at the moment, or stated my opinions instead of
'the party line.'
Wouldn't it make more sense just to get away with
dealing with those kinds of people, who are so
ingrained in this mentality that no one is trust-
worthy, and if an honest person comes along they
can't be trusted or believed, and the only thing
left is THE SCAM?
Well I wish I had a happy ending but I don't. I
live two lives and I got a feeling that it's
gonna be this way for a hell of a lot longer.
When you KNOW they're wrong and you can't exactly
articulate how or why, you only know that it's
FUCKED!!
From saint@!bugger-off!prairienet.org Fri Jul 10 10:19:08 1998
Newsgroups: alt.slack
Subject: Re: Even Doktors Get The Blues
From: saint andreux <saint@!bugger-off!prairienet.org>
Date: Fri, 10 Jul 1998 12:19:08 -0500
Steve Slack wrote:
> Now I ask you, if someone was breathing down
> your neck, ready to jump all over your ass for
> the slightest faux pas, could you function
> adequately at your job? I would wager a guess
> that you'd probably be so nervous all the time
> that you'd end up fucking up even worse!!
It's even worse when it's because your CO-WORKER
fucked things up.
Fucking humans.
I'll tell you all a little secret: MY HATE IS BACK TO FULL STEAM.
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From fwhite*NOSPAM*@colfax.com Fri Jul 10 19:05:50 1998
Newsgroups: alt.slack
Subject: Re: Even Doktors Get The Blues
From: fwhite*NOSPAM*@colfax.com (Frank White)
Date: 11 Jul 1998 02:05:50 GMT
In article <6o5inb$lor@news9.noc.netcom.net>, saint@!bugger-off!prairienet.org says...
>
>Steve Slack wrote:
>
>> Now I ask you, if someone was breathing down
>> your neck, ready to jump all over your ass for
>> the slightest faux pas, could you function
>> adequately at your job? I would wager a guess
>> that you'd probably be so nervous all the time
>> that you'd end up fucking up even worse!!
Begin acting psychotic. Make them nervous, instead.
Worse, act angelic and tell them you'll pray for them.
They'll hate your guts but won't know how to respond.
> It's even worse when it's because your CO-WORKER
> fucked things up.
>
> Fucking humans.
Yeah, aren't we Norms great? If you didn't have us, who
could you blame?
> I'll tell you all a little secret: MY HATE IS BACK TO FULL STEAM.
How's your rage? One without the other is like one half of a
pair of shoes.
FW
From revjack@radix.net Fri Jul 10 11:59:08 1998
Newsgroups: alt.slack
Subject: Re: Even Doktors Get The Blues
From: Sketchy Albedo <revjack@radix.net>
Date: 10 Jul 1998 18:59:08 GMT
Previously, Steve Slack wrote:
:Will you permit me to cry on your shoulders
:about job shit for a moment?
Okay by me.
:Now I ask you, if someone was breathing down
:your neck, ready to jump all over your ass for
:the slightest faux pas, could you function
:adequately at your job? I would wager a guess
:that you'd probably be so nervous all the time
:that you'd end up fucking up even worse!!
You need to get out.
I did the same thing for 14 YEARS until I finally heeded the Word of
Dobbs:
SLACK OFF! QUIT YOUR JOB!
Of course, "Bob" never said anything about not getting a NEW job.
I'm not one of those people who can change jobs like changing hats. It's
very difficult, I hate it. But, eventually, there was no choice. Because,
need I remind you, The SubGenius Must Have Slack. Especially SubGs who
play guitar.
Steve, do you have habits?
You know, like eating a certain snack every day, or placing your beverage
on your desk in the same place, or drumming your fingers when you think,
things like that?
Well, it's time for you to develop a new habit. Your new habit will be,
"Scoping Out The Job Market".
That's all for now, whoah! That's a lot. Let's not drive this thing over
the cliff! Easy does it!
I'm talking about a habit. Just a small thing. Once a day, every day, feed
your new habit by, say, *glancing* at the want ads. JUST GLANCING. Have a
squint, then forget it for the rest of the day. NOTHING MORE. Integrate
this new habit into your daily routine.
Before too long, you will find that you will have an innate knowledge of
the job scene, and especially, how it relates to your present employment.
Then, when the time comes (and it will come), the decision will be easy. I
think you'll be surprised at the results.
You'll be happy again.
Do not set a time limit on results.
In the meantime, try to disengage yourself emotionally from the PinkThink
all around you. If you're a passionate person then this won't be easy, but
you have to do it - it's a matter of survival. It helps to think that you
are the only person on the planet with free will, and that everyone else
is just a wind-up automaton. Don't take my word for it - close srutiny
will bear this out.
They want you to perform some boneheaded circus-bear trick? FINE. Do the
trick, smile the smile, eat the fish, cash your paycheck. For you are
biding your time now.
Things to Remember:
* You are always free.
* Everyone loses everything in the end.
* There is no way to Slack; Slack is the Way.
* WRONG: "What do you want to do with your life?"
RIGHT: "What do you want to do with your life next?"
Start that habit, Steve. Pick up the paper this Sunday, scan the job ads,
then THROW IT AWAY - you're done for the day. Don't push it. Let your
hindbrain process it. Thus fortified, when the time comes, you'll know
what to do. I promise it, my friend.
RJ
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_________________
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From kevbob.AlLsPaM@ecsis.net Fri Jul 10 19:14:39 1998
Newsgroups: alt.slack
Subject: Re: Even Doktors Get The Blues
From: "kevbob" <kevbob.AlLsPaM@ecsis.net>
Date: 11 Jul 1998 02:14:39 GMT
Sketchy Albedo <revjack@radix.net> wrote in article
<6o5o9s$e91$1@news1.Radix.Net>...
> Previously, Steve Slack wrote:
> :Will you permit me to cry on your shoulders
> :about job shit for a moment?
>
> Okay by me.
steve-o,
i considered responding with some ill-gotten advice, and then i saw
revjack's, and then i realized, there is someone with a clue.
job's suck,
but we need the money.
if they are so looking for someone to butt-rape,
then,
well,
fuck 'em.
there are plenty of asswipes in the world at the moment much better suited
at being a whipping boy than you are.
just don't let the bastards get you down, eh?
--
"i can see the middle,
but now,
now it all seems so,
so,
i dunno."
From $toxiccow@mind$pring.com Fri Jul 10 23:24:41 1998
Newsgroups: alt.slack
Subject: Re: Even Doktors Get The Blues
From: $toxiccow@mind$pring.com (Sister Pammy of the Soil)
Date: Sat, 11 Jul 1998 06:24:41 GMT
Sketchy Albedo <revjack@radix.net> wrote:
>Previously, Steve Slack wrote:
>
snip
>
>SLACK OFF! QUIT YOUR JOB!
>
>Of course, "Bob" never said anything about not getting a NEW job.
>
>I'm not one of those people who can change jobs like changing hats. It's
>very difficult, I hate it. But, eventually, there was no choice. Because,
>need I remind you, The SubGenius Must Have Slack. Especially SubGs who
>play guitar.
>
>Steve, do you have habits?
>
>You know, like eating a certain snack every day, or placing your beverage
>on your desk in the same place, or drumming your fingers when you think,
>things like that?
>
>Well, it's time for you to develop a new habit. Your new habit will be,
>"Scoping Out The Job Market".
>
>That's all for now, whoah! That's a lot. Let's not drive this thing over
>the cliff! Easy does it!
>
>I'm talking about a habit. Just a small thing. Once a day, every day, feed
>your new habit by, say, *glancing* at the want ads. JUST GLANCING. Have a
>squint, then forget it for the rest of the day. NOTHING MORE. Integrate
>this new habit into your daily routine.
>
>Before too long, you will find that you will have an innate knowledge of
>the job scene, and especially, how it relates to your present employment.
>
>Then, when the time comes (and it will come), the decision will be easy. I
>think you'll be surprised at the results.
>
>You'll be happy again.
>
>Do not set a time limit on results.
>
>In the meantime, try to disengage yourself emotionally from the PinkThink
>all around you. If you're a passionate person then this won't be easy, but
>you have to do it - it's a matter of survival. It helps to think that you
>are the only person on the planet with free will, and that everyone else
>is just a wind-up automaton. Don't take my word for it - close srutiny
>will bear this out.
>
>They want you to perform some boneheaded circus-bear trick? FINE. Do the
>trick, smile the smile, eat the fish, cash your paycheck. For you are
>biding your time now.
>
>Things to Remember:
>
>* You are always free.
>
>* Everyone loses everything in the end.
>
>* There is no way to Slack; Slack is the Way.
>
>* WRONG: "What do you want to do with your life?"
> RIGHT: "What do you want to do with your life next?"
>
>Start that habit, Steve. Pick up the paper this Sunday, scan the job ads,
>then THROW IT AWAY - you're done for the day. Don't push it. Let your
>hindbrain process it. Thus fortified, when the time comes, you'll know
>what to do. I promise it, my friend.
Rev Jack, Rev Jack, this is all too brilliant! Steve, at the risk of
sounding like you-know-who, I'll add that every time you let them do
that to you, you are giving them their sanction to continue operating
in the world. You'd be wasting your breath trying to make them change,
but consider what you're supporting by continuing to work for them.
Sketchy is absolutely damn right--slack off! Quit your job! BUT! Read
your words again and consider: EVERY JOB YOU'VE HAD FOR THE PAST
FIFTEEN YEARS HAS BEEN LIKE THIS. Isn't it time, given your
experiences, that you think about self-employment? A professional
window-washing business, with you as sole owner and squigee operator,
probably contains more slack than your present life. What could you
do, think large now, what could you do to earn a living that didn't
involve having a boss? There are still government bullshit tax and
employer hassles, more than you can imagine, but it pales compared to
having to eat shit every day at the whim of a tyrannical boss. It's
your LIFE, dude! Not to put the pressure on or anything, but if you
aren't waging war for your own slack, no one else will.
Sister Pammy of the Soil