Work

Why does the Sans Fromage hate work? After a week off from work I grew accustom to a simple, peaceful life of books, errands, food and movies interspersed with some chores. The Sans Fromage speculated what home life would be like if it was more like work. Consider making the bed. People would come and sit on the bed and say they booked the bed for this time months ago and it isn’t their problem if the bed was double booked. Other people would unmake the bed to show that they have more power than you. Your manager would tell you to remake the bed after others unmade it because it reflects poorly on him and his career. Others who didn’t make their bed would complain about the lack of bed making training and why should you be able to make your bed without training since you might be doing it wrong. Someone, when your back in turned, spills coffee on the bed. Someone else steals the pillow. A new hire, assigned to help make the bed, disappears for three days and reappears with a proposal to get rid of the bed and sleep on the floor. Your manager considers the proposal because the new hire is the off-spring of a higher-up manager. Your manager suggests you build a finite element model of the bed since the bed making is obvious a non-linear problem and he needs the model by tomorrow for a presentation to a department store having a white sale. The government shows up and measures the blanket and finds that it drapes 8.7” off the left side and 8.86” off the right side and that it doesn’t meet the spec that calls for 8.5” of blanket drape and wants a report written addressing the cost of excess drape. Your manager loves this because you have a cost-plus contract and he considers the report to be out of spec thus enabling him to charge the government for a new laptop and a laser drape measuring tool plus your time for writing the report. The government argues that it is in spec and wants to have a meeting in their offices which are three hours away so you have to drive there and back in one day and you get home at 9:00 PM with no decision, and your bed still isn’t made.