Office Life - Tag - In a past life… https://archive.jtimothyking.com/tags/office-life/ Office Life - Tag - In a past life… Hugo -- gohugo.ioen-usFri, 28 May 2010 12:00:20 +0000 Only the Lonely https://archive.jtimothyking.com/2010/05/28/only-the-lonely/ Fri, 28 May 2010 12:00:20 +0000 J. Timothy King https://archive.jtimothyking.com/2010/05/28/only-the-lonely/
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All those days sitting through Mrs. Owens’s seventh-grade algebra class, then years staring through Reverend Hardy’s sermons, and now centuries yawning through business meetings, she would have thought she’d have gotten used to the experience.

She shifted in her seat, as the company CEO flipped to another PowerPoint slide, animatedly spewing the latest rendition of corporate spin to the assembled audience. Sales figures and production are up! (Except in the divisions that the company did not purchase this year.) We’re launching several exciting new projects! (Because we weren’t able to finish the last ones.) We now control more gigabytes of shitty software than all of Microsoft and IBM combined! (And that’s something to brag about? Even if it were true?)

She glanced around. Hundreds more faces, just like hers. She was suddenly overtaken with isolation, that she could feel so alone amongst so many others just like herself.

]]> A Bad Job Two-fer: Living Inside a Top/A Tribute to Lorelai https://archive.jtimothyking.com/2009/06/02/a-bad-job-two-fer/ Tue, 02 Jun 2009 12:00:13 +0000 J. Timothy King https://archive.jtimothyking.com/2009/06/02/a-bad-job-two-fer/ The following two poems reflect the angst of working in a bad job, a dysfunctional employer-employee relationship. It can stress you out, depress you, and make you cry. Sometimes, the only act that can save you is sending your resume to another potential employer, because that’s what gives you hope and makes you feel a sense of control over your own destiny.

-TimK

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