And This is What is Wrong...

With the American work force...or American way of thinking...

For whatever reason, work 50+ hour work weeks is standard practice here in the good ol America. Unfortunately, it has most people stressed beyond belief, far too overweight, unhappy in nearly all aspects of their life, and generally, couldn't care less about anything.

But here is the kicker - sick people at work. The same assholes who "pride" themselves in working way too fucking much, are the same douche bags who come into the office and get EVERYONE else sick. Which all the news stories of H1N1 this and flu season that, why do they feel the need to come into work?

I have the "added" pleasure of being in 1 room with about 25 or so odd people, sitting elbow to elbow (makes you want to work here, right?). So then, roughly 1/4 of the room is sick...25%!! I cannot overemphasize that enough! Regardless, the same people who come in here on their weekends because they feel the need to work "extra" hard, are the same ones in here trying to be a fucking hero and work through their "illness"...

Someone asked "If you get the whole team sick, it won't make the project more successful and, in turn, will make the team less efficient". The response you ask? "Oh, I'll be OK".

Seriously, if you're going to drag us all into a room with absolutely ZERO privacy, with ZERO opportunity to just relax and get away from it all, with ZERO chance of enjoying the work environment, the LEAST you can do is keep your sick self home!

I would GLADLY work from home, but again, the "powers that be" didn't provide me with a work laptop, so for me to get my stuff done, that's right - I gotta sit in this cesspool of germs, while the sick people hack, sneeze, click their throats, force open their clogged nose (with no tissue, of course) right in my face, in the stale air that WE ALL BREATHE....

Oh yea, the hand sanitizer, Kleenexes, and disinfectant wipes - yea, NONE of those are being used by the sick people....figures