[EdF]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Schweinshaxe', 'N')o, I don't like my job.

I like the work I'm doing but I don't like my job.

Did that make sense?

[foodnotlawns]

I definitely don't want any solutions to be found. I want modern society to go down in flames. I definitely agree with Ted Kaczynski, and like his tract "The Future of Industrial Society"

I'm not worried about whether Peak Oilers aer "credible" or not to the masses of asses. Peak Oil is one of those things taht's going to sell itself.

My job -- every day is pure torture. The weekends, by contrast, working outside in the quiet, natural setting, is a little bit of heaven. just a taste.

And yet, that's the way we are supposed to live.

It's the swine like Dick Cheney that keep us feeding their machine.

it's for their good, not for our good.

It's bad for us.

It's bad for the ecology.

It's wasteful of resources.

I sure hope there will be no technofix.

[orz]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'M')y job -- every day is pure torture. The weekends, by contrast, working outside in the quiet, natural setting, is a little bit of heaven. just a taste.

And yet, that's the way we are supposed to live.

[Jake_old]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'E')ventually, one of us no good pesky scientific types will pop up and do something stupid like rediscover solar power. Believing that modern society will never rise again is as retarded as believing that its all going to collapse in a couple of days.

[Jake_old]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'P')O, which is purely a human problem

[Ercole]

I hate it ! I'm a clerk in an office with plenty of superiors always showing me contempt or how they are cleverest than me - which they are not - explaining me why they are superior and how life works and how they understand everything better than me - they're french you know ! - and I don't give a damn being the king of the town while they all feel the world can't run without them...

Actually I'm selling my flat and still wonder what am I doing with the money - 120 000 euros.

I think I'll build a small house - 64 000 euros - on a small piece of land I have in the country and only work 3 days out of 7. I'll grow my vegetables, a few rabbits and go hunting/fishing/strolling in my beloved woods, far from any human pricks. Maybe I quit. Maybe I'll start again to write my Brautigan-like little stories and my sad poems. Maybe I'll become an alcoolic. Maybe I'll have some more acid. Maybe I'll kill them all or I'll beat them like they used to. Maybe I'll shoot myself instead. I'm not very interested in the future, I just know I'll be free in a few months from bank credits, big cities, close neighbours, just watching my fruit trees grows, that blue sky with all the extraordinary clouds and the so caressing rain, bathing my face in the light of the moon during cold nights - and that'll be enough for me...

Just don't come to destroy it or I'll eat your liver and fuck your children...

[PenultimateManStanding]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Ercole', '
')Just don't come to destroy it or I'll eat your liver and fuck your children...

[smiley]

I like complaining about my job

But seriously. I think my job is pretty cool. I do what I like to do and get paid for it. And once in a while I do something which actually useful.

The only thing which has been bugging me lately is the way the system is clogging up by the people from support.

I have this theory about them.

It all starts when one of them is hired in human resources, project support financial support etc. This guy or girl quickly discovers that he/she is actually pretty redundant. Fearing for their jobs they start thinking about ideas to increase their workload and to safeguard their job.

Then in a sudden brainwave they come up with this idea. They will design their own procedure with their own form. A form which only they can sign. If you have your own form then you are truly indispensable.

They run to the boss en tell them about this idea to 'streamline' the operations. They tell them how they read in this or that magazine about a procedure, how fashionable it is among the blockbuster companies, that it can be implemented in SAP etc.

And then the trouble starts. This procedure is backfiring on them and is quickly clogging up the system overloading them with work. Besides they discover that signing forms is not so much fun as they anticipated. A concerned boss comes to ask why operations are slowing down. They reply that it is not the procedure, but the fact that they have not enough manpower to keep things running. They tell him to hire more of them.

If you have a boss which is susceptible to this kind of crap then you might end up in the same situation where I am now. If I want to order a pack of paper-clips I have to log on to the automated buying system, fill in about four forms, have them signed by three people, and bring them to this guy who will order them for me (Hopefully, because an order for a thousand paper-clips might well up ending as an order for one thousand packs of paper-clips.).

Anyway I guess that anyone who works for a large enough company is familiar with this phenomenon.

[Ercole]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('PenultimateManStanding', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Ercole', '
')Just don't come to destroy it or I'll eat your liver and fuck your children...

[PenultimateManStanding]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Ercole', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('PenultimateManStanding', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Ercole', '
')Just don't come to destroy it or I'll eat your liver and fuck your children...

[Jake_old]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'I')f I want to order a pack of paper-clips I have to log on to the automated buying system, fill in about four forms, have them signed by three people, and bring them to this guy who will order them for me

[Ercole]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('PenultimateManStanding', '
')I read where Le Pen's e-mails and phone calls are going throught the roof. Lots of Frenchies are getting very angry. The backlash begins. . .

[Omnitir]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', '
')My job -- every day is pure torture. The weekends, by contrast, working outside in the quiet, natural setting, is a little bit of heaven. just a taste.
And yet, that's the way we are supposed to live.

[PenultimateManStanding]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Ercole', ' ')I've heard myself a huge number of people telling me they will vote for le pen in 2007

[strider3700]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('smiley', '
')
Anyway I guess that anyone who works for a large enough company is familiar with this phenomenon.

[Jake_old]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'Y')es it is, your just not seeing the bigger picture. All life grows. Not to grow is to die.

[JeeBoomba]

Sorry to un-derail the thread, but I really do like my job. It's not perfect, but compared to some of the shit jobs I had when I was younger, my current position is incredible.
I'm kind of curious if there is a correlation between liking/disliking your job and how much career planning a person did. I mean, if you hate your current job, how did you get there? Did you just fall into it or did you make a bad choice somewhere or what?

[seldom_seen]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Omnitir', 'S')ums up the position of most doomers and why many people find PO so hard to take seriously. Doomers often don’t want solutions to peak oil, because they have issues with the modern world. They have issues with growth. How can anyone take seriously a group of people that are against growth, and therfore against life itself?

[EdF]

</q>$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('JeeBoomba', 'S')orry to un-derail the thread, but I really do like my job. It's not perfect, but compared to some of the shit jobs I had when I was younger, my current position is incredible.
I'm kind of curious if there is a correlation between liking/disliking your job and how much career planning a person did. I mean, if you hate your current job, how did you get there? Did you just fall into it or did you make a bad choice somewhere or what?

[Omnitir]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('seldom_seen', '
')Omnitir, if you had the most basic understanding of biology (the study of life), you would know that uncontrolled growth in nature comes mainly in the form of gigantism or cancer. Which in most cases leads to death. At an ecological level uncontrolled growth leads to overshoot and die-off. A natural healthy system or organism does not grow infinitely.