I am going to start filtering some of my more private musings. Since blogger does not have a tool for that, you will need to visit my Live Journal and ask to be friended there. I will continue to post Daily Gratitude and other subjects here. There is also a FAQ for my Journal at the same link.
"from hell"
| Saturday, March 18, 2006 @ 09:02 I realized that to many people, seeing the phrase "temp-job-from-hell" may have created an expectation that did not match my description of the job. Maybe you expected drastic physical conditions, abusive or violent supervisors or co-workers or degrading or impossible job tasks. While I agree that those things would be horrendous, I tend to equate that with life on this planet. "hell" to me is insidious situations and behaviors, and, yes, sometimes other people. TJFH was so designated because it did not seem, on the surface (or several layers below that) to be anything but normal. The people were nice. The pay was adequate for this job market. The requirements/quotas were reasonable. The environment was clean, temperature-controlled, and had nice art work and a pleasant break room. Everyone had their own computer and workstation. Printing was delivered from a centralized location in a timely fashion. I didn't have to work with people in shorts or tank tops nor was I expected to conform to business formal attire. There was no time clock and breaks were logged, but on an honor system that wasn't checked by anyone. That's a "good" job, not a "from hell" job, right? I am no longer willing to accept the surface of what society decrees is "good" or "right" or "easy" in regards to employment. It is by making things so "pleasant" and programming those in "unpleasant" jobs to dream of a more "pleasant" environment in the future (or for their children) that our business model imprisons us and actually tricks us into thinking we're "lucky to have X" in our workplace. The entire system is wrong, but it is more obvious when you look at a $1/day factory worker in a 3rd world country than looking at a well-fed, well-groomed "XXX Specialist" in an insurance company in Kansas. That all the jobs I have held in my life have fit this model and I have actually bought into the idea that I was "lucky" to have the income and the stability and medical insurance (when it was offered), etc., that is insidious. To have finally awakened to all this AND to then be stuck in a place that truly represented that insidiousness and have all the people around me actually like where they were, that was pure hell. I have been working on a second installment exploring the roots of my current transition. It describes why I hate the current business/work model. I plan to finish it in the next day or two. btw...have you ever noticed that if you remove the letter "l" from "pleasant" you're left with "peasant"? And what might that "l" be that stands between a "pleasant" existence and a "peasant" one?
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