The pressure cooker

[emeraldsedai]

I'm simply going to have to accept it: since the big turnover in project management, this place is officially No Fun At All.

Today, at yet another near- haiku-inducing meeting, the project lead posted the following work schedule for the next five weeks

Comments

[silk_knickers]

Perhaps if you weren't in meetings all the time, you could actually get your work done?

(No, I'm not projecting my situation onto yours at all...)

[emeraldsedai]

Our deadline is looming, they say.
The time is fast rolling away.
So come sit and listen
To us moanin' and pissin'
Then work two more hours today.

Yep. This could work.

[emeraldsedai]

If job stress is eating your brain
It's good you're already insane
And doing your part
To contribute to Art
Via limerickly soothing your pain

[roseambr]

Oh! GOOD GOD! Can they really order up multiple weeks of 11 hour days??? And still expect that people can function??? Not many go-getters can survive this kind of a schedule for very long and they are expecting multiple weeks of this? Isn't there laws against this kind of slavery? Especially since you are not getting over time pay, or accumulating compensation hours. Unreal! I'm so sorry you are having to endure this kind of torture!

[emeraldsedai]

We all have our low days and high days,
But insanity's now filling my days.
They don't pay me hourly
So I'll suck it up, sourly,
While the consultants all go home on Fridays.

[vchrusch]

I'm liking the limericks and that's one nasty schedule.

[emeraldsedai]

There once was a boss at my work
Who thought he was quite the young Turk.
He thought, "They're all fools!"
As he laid out the rules.
We all thought, "He's just being a ridiculous, insecure martinet."

In The Realm of Demensis

[big_buggah]

We work behind doors with big strong locks.
I feel like I need some strong detox.
They won't let us out,
To get air in our snout,
Or make up tomorrow's bento box.

Re: In The Realm of Demensis

[emeraldsedai]

I have more of a haiku mind than a limerick mind, really.

My eyeballs are as flat
As this computer monitor
Don't let me nod off.

Re: In The Realm of Demensis

[big_buggah]

The meter might seem a little off on this one, but isn't really:
We work behind doors with big strong locks
da da dada da da da DA da

I feel like I need some strong detox
da da da da da da da DAda

They won't let us out
da da da da DA

To get air in our snout
da da da da da da

Or make up tomorrow's bento box.
da da da dada DAda da

You have to pronounce 'tomorrow's' sort of like 'tomars'.

But it's probably not important . . .

Re: In The Realm of Demensis

[emeraldsedai]

Or, "Or make up tomorrow's bent-toebox."

[roseambr]

Good limericks, but my favorite thing about a lot of them is the baudy quality. Care to add in a little color? This could be a great diversionary tactic for you.

[big_buggah]

All right, bawdy limerick time!

This schedule is rotten! It reeks!
I haven't had sex in two weeks!
My boss, I think, owes me,
Until she just blows me,
Or shoves this whole job 'twixt her cheeks!

Am I bad?

[emeraldsedai]

Yes you are.