Yes, work sucks
My job sucks. Obviously, this is a complaint as old as language itself. I'm fairly certain that man invented language to complain about the work they were doing. The basic grunts and gestures were just not emotive enough to complain about how much a pain-in-the-ass hunting and gathering could be. Thus leading to the first spoken word, "sucks."
Through time, language would change and flourish, allowing us new and inventive ways to express how much we hated the boss. Language eventually became such a good tool for complaining about how bad work could be, Moses was able to use a little bitching about work, and what a horrible boss Ramses was, to convince the Jewish people to wander the desert for 40 years. Building pyramids must have really sucked for aimless wandering to seem like a preferable alternative. Effectively, the Israelites were unemployed for 40 years, which lead to a different type of complaining. When you don't have a job, it leaves more time to ponder your existence, and your relationship with God, or a craven idol. Either way.
The continued development of adjectives brought more zeal to the art of complaining about work. With the Industrial Revolution, the Coffee Break was formed, giving employees an opportunity to get together during the work day to complain as a group for 10 minutes. This began to become problematic for the managers. If enough workers got together and demanded that work not suck, management might have to do something to address the "suck" issue. Making work not suck is simply not cost effective. So management decided to begin firing people for complaining about their job. That is until the unions arrived.
The 20th Century brought a change to the relationship between management and staff. The unionization of America began early in the 20th Century, and would continue throughout much of it, incorporating more and more industries where work sucked. These newly formed unions then allowed people to bitch about work freely, without the fear of being fired for it. Management, not having any other choice, had to invent "Collective Bargaining." This new practice would allow management and the union to come together and decide just how much work was allowed to suck before it would "unreasonably suck." If at any point work began to unreasonably suck, the employees were free to bitch about it to whoever would listen, including people walking by on the street.
Now, in the 21st Century, and with the decline of unions, we are forced to look for new and inventive ways to complain about our jobs. Fortunately, a small experiment from the late 20th Century called the internet has opened the door for new and exciting ways to complain about work. This new tool, that allows information to flow freely around the world, has created a renaissance of sorts in the great of of bitching about work.
It is with this great and mighty internet that I am able to say, "I fucking hate my job!"
Through time, language would change and flourish, allowing us new and inventive ways to express how much we hated the boss. Language eventually became such a good tool for complaining about how bad work could be, Moses was able to use a little bitching about work, and what a horrible boss Ramses was, to convince the Jewish people to wander the desert for 40 years. Building pyramids must have really sucked for aimless wandering to seem like a preferable alternative. Effectively, the Israelites were unemployed for 40 years, which lead to a different type of complaining. When you don't have a job, it leaves more time to ponder your existence, and your relationship with God, or a craven idol. Either way.
The continued development of adjectives brought more zeal to the art of complaining about work. With the Industrial Revolution, the Coffee Break was formed, giving employees an opportunity to get together during the work day to complain as a group for 10 minutes. This began to become problematic for the managers. If enough workers got together and demanded that work not suck, management might have to do something to address the "suck" issue. Making work not suck is simply not cost effective. So management decided to begin firing people for complaining about their job. That is until the unions arrived.
The 20th Century brought a change to the relationship between management and staff. The unionization of America began early in the 20th Century, and would continue throughout much of it, incorporating more and more industries where work sucked. These newly formed unions then allowed people to bitch about work freely, without the fear of being fired for it. Management, not having any other choice, had to invent "Collective Bargaining." This new practice would allow management and the union to come together and decide just how much work was allowed to suck before it would "unreasonably suck." If at any point work began to unreasonably suck, the employees were free to bitch about it to whoever would listen, including people walking by on the street.
Now, in the 21st Century, and with the decline of unions, we are forced to look for new and inventive ways to complain about our jobs. Fortunately, a small experiment from the late 20th Century called the internet has opened the door for new and exciting ways to complain about work. This new tool, that allows information to flow freely around the world, has created a renaissance of sorts in the great of of bitching about work.
It is with this great and mighty internet that I am able to say, "I fucking hate my job!"