Tuesday, August 3, 2010

The worst job in the world

Set a couple of men, complete strangers possibly, at a table, toss in beer, and before long they will begin talking about work. It's a disease. It's how men define themselves. After a brew or two, they begin to compete. Who has the worst boss, what was their worst job, who's company sells the worst product. One upmanship is inescapable.

I had such an episode last night. Retirement has a lot going for it, but its good points are negatives in a pissing contest.

Most countries have a variant of the TV show "worst job in the world". In it someone who knows better gets to try out lots of nasty jobs, all for the joy of being on television. Mostly the jobs are those you wouldn't wish on your brother in law, but smiling host finds the pleasure of changing lightbulbs on top of 100 story buildings, or cleaning outhouses. Our discussion last night turned to a variant of that program, but I trumped.

I have discovered the nearest circle to hell. The job to end all jobs, so miserable that interns must be compensated to endure it. Wanna know what it is?

Picture this. Ever watch an entertainment or sports or.... show, when the news is (something like this) "big star tweeted today that they are unhappy making only $50 million" or "big star tweeted that they want to make a movie with....

Some unfortunate mother's child must monitor tweets of idiots to extract what passes for news and pass it on to us in these enlightened times.

Picture the offices of Central Monitor, LLC.

An office area much like the steno pool from central casting. Rows upon rows of desks, each occupied by a kid whose's a subject matter specialist. Baseball players A-D, Football NFL East, Female TV actors Network, Female actors Cable..... 24/7 day in day out forever.

And we wonder where the work ethic went.

Toad

8 comments:

Karena said...

Too much Toad. It is such the world we live in!!

Karena
Art by Karena

Staircase Witch said...

I guess writing articles for entertainment magazines with headlines like KORTNEY KARDASHIAN'S SECRET SORROW is actually a step up, then. Still, there but for the grace of God...

Shelley said...

I'm sorry, I still think 'news' is about politics, economics, war, a cure for cancer, somebody living to 130. What these so called 'famous' people think or want isn't news, it's bird poo. Close the damn call centre and somebody go shoot that noisy, irritating ...is that a grumpy old woman talking or what?

James said...

Very Orwellian of you. The language of the these tweeters is the beginning of "New Speak",
BFF and LOL. As you say,"life in the closing days of the Empire".

Kathy said...

I don't have the time....thank god!

Patsy said...

I think you could be right about that being the worst job, Toad, and I worked in a factory.

Toad said...

We have each had lousy jobs, but most we more or less volunteered for. You couldn't even make prisoners follow this nonsense, without human rights watch on your case.

Free Kansas said...

Suddenly that job as an Underwater Welder for the Sewage Department doesn't sound so bad. Probably pays better.