fuck this job.com

Cough Cough, that's what I hear this week in this hell. This is totally the company's fault. About 2 years ago, they took away sick days. More specifically, they rolled sick days in with vacation days and called them PTO days (Paid Time Off). So before there specific days set aside for sickness and specifically time allocated for vacation. Two different things right? Not any more! They're one in the same.

This is the view from my desk. No, it's not my desk. It's my office mate. What do you think? I know what I think!

There are basically 2 kinds of companies. The first type is the company that doesn't give a shit whether its employees are miserable or happy. In their minds, the employees are getting paid and that's all that matters. So the employees should just be happy happy happy! They should STFU and do their work until it's time to go home. Oh and they must not whine about putting in extra time either. This company provides only the very basic benefits (if any benefits at all), has an uncomfortable, unhealthy work environment and is full of, yeah, miserable people.

I have worked in my job since 1999. It was supposed to be a short term job until I could find something better. Haha, joke's on me. Every time I think of that statement about starting out here, I get depressed.

The sad thing is that I've been looking for work since about 2004 (on and off) and have found nothing that can match the salary here. And the salary here is still less than I was making prior to 1999. The salary is ok, but not great if you know what I mean.