If you have any doubt that time is relative, try stretching fifteen minutes' worth of input of over four hours cubicle-cell time with an ultra-slow internet connection and frequent visits from supervisors.
Rob Payne
This is the factory of the new millennium, the new working class, where industrious drones keep track of other people's wealth as it accumulates. Our collars may be white, but our outlooks are gray and our paycheques ar most definitely lacking in green.
wealth people
Authority is permission to spew platitudes to people below you.
people
Are people happier with a smaller range of experiences?
people experience
People never realize how much work impacts there self esteem and sense of purpose until they leave a job.
purpose people work self
People are shuffling by in long coats, with shopping bags and takeout, smoking cigarettes and feigning laughter - filling up their lives with distractions to shut out the chaos.
chaos people
My life is ticking away one subway token at a time - a never ending pirouette of arriving and departing, pushing through turnstiles, nodding goodbye and hello. In eight hours I'll be allowed to turn around and go home.
life thetimes time home
If life is a journey, time should pull over at a rest stop sometimes - we should all be given a chance to get off and stretch our legs, collect our thoughts and reorganize.
chance life thetimes time rest
In today's competitive business world, it is not enough to do your job well; no, to be truly effective, you have to develop skills and strategies for things you'll never have to do, and situations that will never come up.
business
doubt worth thetimes time
You should try the margarita, she says. Are they the best in town? She shrugs. I don't know. But I like them. They have two ounces of tequila in them and fuck you up big time.
thetimes time
I pitied myself for having no door until I met a man with no dividers.
door man
I wonder what the difference is between love and lust.
wonder wonders
Sometimes I wonder why the corporate world is seen as a god choice for those of us that will never rise above clerical work and general administration.
wonder wonders choice work
It's nice to have one worry marched to the wings and forcefully thrown into the alleyway.
worry
Like so many other office workers of the world, I will obey my master, the clock, and will obediently nod to my co-workers and make small talk about sports, kids and weather - all things I'm not genuinely interested in.
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