The Machines and Women
Today, we pitched a fit. And I'm especially Jesus-like with my awesome cold virus. I thought I might have strep. I don't. I got purple shit scrubbed on my throat by the doctor. The middle of world I work in is always getting disturbed, and one of the big things they like to do is shove people from one department to another or hire some fun and exciting person to fix everything. Today, one stopped by to check us out before one of our big get togethers. We were really bitchy. I think she implied that if I don't like it, or rather, if I don't "love" it, then I should get out.
I should, but not because of loving work or not. I don't choose to love it. You can make choices like that. So people choose to love the company and then that's a given. I choose to to love fairness, and since I feel like things are unfair, then there is no love. I keep my love at home, and in a good place. I don't give it to companies that make me crazy. Please don't make this about love... it's about work and life. Everyone's a quitter at something. People need to feel that halo around them, like everyone who falls out is failed or doesn't believe the same core values... I believe that the kind of value you can get from a person, a real person, doesn't come from a book about businesss. It might come from words, some words... words that are repeated because they have a soul of their own, not words that although well repeated have no soul.
It's helpful to think of the place as "values", though, because it is what it breeds. And it is a life of its own, and it has to go on without you, so you can go on without it.
I should, but not because of loving work or not. I don't choose to love it. You can make choices like that. So people choose to love the company and then that's a given. I choose to to love fairness, and since I feel like things are unfair, then there is no love. I keep my love at home, and in a good place. I don't give it to companies that make me crazy. Please don't make this about love... it's about work and life. Everyone's a quitter at something. People need to feel that halo around them, like everyone who falls out is failed or doesn't believe the same core values... I believe that the kind of value you can get from a person, a real person, doesn't come from a book about businesss. It might come from words, some words... words that are repeated because they have a soul of their own, not words that although well repeated have no soul.
It's helpful to think of the place as "values", though, because it is what it breeds. And it is a life of its own, and it has to go on without you, so you can go on without it.