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madokie

(51,076 posts)
Fri Jun 16, 2017, 02:24 PM Jun 2017

Report: Today The Day Woman Either Quits Job Or Goes Home And Watches 4 Hours Of Netflix

TheOnion:

BOSTON—Citing her growing irritation with the tasks assigned to her and the festering sense of disdain she harbors toward many of her coworkers, a report issued Friday confirmed that today is finally the day that local woman Samantha King either quits her job or goes home and watches four hours of Netflix on her couch. Sources indicated that after receiving yet another error-ridden invoice from a colleague that she immediately recognized she’d have to spend the next several hours correcting, the 34-year-old billing coordinator resolved that the time had come for her to either march directly up to her boss and tell him that she’d had it with this miserable, unfulfilling job, or take the 5:30 p.m train home as usual, get into her pajamas, and watch back-to-back television episodes until she fell asleep. According to reports, the woman spent much of the morning at her desk silently seething about how much of her life she was wasting on mundane, monotonous work that went underappreciated and insufficiently compensated, a lengthy series of aggrieved thoughts that reportedly led her to conclude that—aside from commuting back to her apartment and queuing up the entire fifth season of House Of Cards on her laptop while ordering delivery—she had only one option: packing up her things right then and there and walking straight out of the office never to return. At press time, King had reportedly reached her breaking point and was teetering on the knife edge between screaming at the top of her lungs and quietly imagining what the contestants might be making in her remaining unwatched episodes of The Great British Baking Show.


http://www.theonion.com/article/report-today-day-woman-either-quits-job-or-goes-ho-56266?utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=feeds

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Report: Today The Day Woman Either Quits Job Or Goes Home And Watches 4 Hours Of Netflix (Original Post) madokie Jun 2017 OP
My heart goes out to those who have unrewarding jobs. dixiegrrrrl Jun 2017 #1
or those poor people working for insurance companies onethatcares Jun 2017 #2
Someday, before I die decades from now Orrex Jun 2017 #3
me me me!!!! dixiegrrrrl Jun 2017 #6
OMG other than the picture and replace House of Cards with OITNB, she is me! n/t seaglass Jun 2017 #4
This is so true for so many people malaise Jun 2017 #5

dixiegrrrrl

(60,010 posts)
1. My heart goes out to those who have unrewarding jobs.
Fri Jun 16, 2017, 03:24 PM
Jun 2017

Those poor people who working in Fed. Gov., who did not vote for Trump, must really be stressed.

onethatcares

(16,172 posts)
2. or those poor people working for insurance companies
Fri Jun 16, 2017, 03:52 PM
Jun 2017

as they tell folks the company is not going to pay for that $1000.00 test and sadly you've gone over your allotted medical care quota.

tha would really stress a person out.

Good luck, you kind and good people.

Orrex

(63,216 posts)
3. Someday, before I die decades from now
Fri Jun 16, 2017, 03:56 PM
Jun 2017

I hope to actually meet someone who has a rewarding job that they enjoy. So far I've only encountered this rare and semi-mythical creature in online environments and in movies about wedding planners.


I'm skeptical.

dixiegrrrrl

(60,010 posts)
6. me me me!!!!
Fri Jun 16, 2017, 08:48 PM
Jun 2017

truly I did. Looked forward to going to work every day, had no idea what I would be facing half the time,
had independence to make my own decisions about running my program, and got to work swing shift, so had mornings free.
Plus, literally, saved more than life.

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