October 17, 2001

The luck of the Irish has finally run out.

I get an email the other day...nothing fancy.  It's from my
supervisor.  It says..."COME SEE ME IN MY OFFICE"

So off into her office I go.  I sit in the small chair while
she remains in her big girl chair, and suddenly I am reminded
of being sent to the kiddie table during thanksgiving dinner many
years ago.  She wants to know if I am happy with my job.
My performance hasn't wavered, but she thinks that I'm not showing
enough enthusiasm for my job.  She wants to know what's  wrong.
She has noticed how I yawn during company pep talks.  She has seen
how I scoffed at brilliant company ideas like the "seventh inning
stretch".  Sometimes...damn it to hell...I crack a joke!
This is just not acceptable behavior.  Don't I know that I'm a slave?
What's my problem?

There is a paperweight on her desk. A simple rock painted several
colors by a young child.  Cute.  I start thinking about tossing a
knuckle ball at her head with the rock.  Bet she wouldn't be expecting
that.

But alas, that is just a dark fantasy.  I know what I really have to
do, don't I?  I've been in the corporate world for awhile now..
I know that its time to pucker up.  I just have to hope she washed
her ass today.

So...basically I'm trying to keep a job that is killing me.

Oh...the irony...

And the simple fact is I've done nothing wrong.  I've actually been
DOING my work the last few weeks, quite good too.  She just wants
to feel the powers of the much revered supervisor's position..
flirt with firing one of the nameless peons.

That is the problem with the title of "supervisor".  Usually the people who get this position are the ones who have never
felt power in their whole life.  Now they have it, and now
they will flaunt it.

Oh well.  Life goes on I suppose.  I'm getting used to all
this boredom, and its starting to scare me a little.  Nothing
here to stimulate the mind, make you think, make you grow...

Oh well.  Its 3pm.  Time to get up and "stretch your muscles" right?

If only there was an exercise to stretch your mind