Monday, May 10, 2004
"The man" has taken a holiday
We all hear the phrase "there's no such thing as a free lunch". For a long time I thought that meant that there is always a cost associated with any decision we make. Then I took a freshman level economics course and it turns out that I am absolutely right! For every decision we make, say to accept a free lunch, we inevitably sacrifice some other next-best opportunity, say driving 50 miles home for a 25-second nooner.
Effective tomorrow my boss will be taking a vacation to Texas for the rest of the week. This leaves me without any real form of supervision for four days. The fools! But while I was beginning the process of selecting new and humerous websites I haven't exhausted and forming a plan of attack on this supercool car-rear-mirror-LED-combo invention thing I've dreamed up I began to wonder: couldn't this be an opportunity for me to show my superior levels of maturity and responsibility by performing above expected levels? Hell I could even show up a few minutes early just because it's the right thing to do.
Wait a sec. The right thing to do. Hmm. That one's bugging me. I mean economics wasn't the only freshman level college course I've completed. I've taken two in philosophy and if I've learned nothing else, and I assure you I didn't, it must be that any assumed path of righteousness must be pondered to determine if it is truly righteous. Surely I wasn't meant to spend the next 35 work hours slaving away blindly toward the CEO's ever-changing vision. After all, innovative thinking was part of what got me hired on here at this pool of productivity peddlers. And there's so very many personal projects that I haven't completed.
I'll be monitoring my emails for suggestions between the hours of 7:30 and 4:30 for the next four days unless I happen to be on break, at lunch, or if I should decide to cash in the $20 Harkins Theatres giftcard I was given for exceeding expected levels of productivity.
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Effective tomorrow my boss will be taking a vacation to Texas for the rest of the week. This leaves me without any real form of supervision for four days. The fools! But while I was beginning the process of selecting new and humerous websites I haven't exhausted and forming a plan of attack on this supercool car-rear-mirror-LED-combo invention thing I've dreamed up I began to wonder: couldn't this be an opportunity for me to show my superior levels of maturity and responsibility by performing above expected levels? Hell I could even show up a few minutes early just because it's the right thing to do.
Wait a sec. The right thing to do. Hmm. That one's bugging me. I mean economics wasn't the only freshman level college course I've completed. I've taken two in philosophy and if I've learned nothing else, and I assure you I didn't, it must be that any assumed path of righteousness must be pondered to determine if it is truly righteous. Surely I wasn't meant to spend the next 35 work hours slaving away blindly toward the CEO's ever-changing vision. After all, innovative thinking was part of what got me hired on here at this pool of productivity peddlers. And there's so very many personal projects that I haven't completed.
I'll be monitoring my emails for suggestions between the hours of 7:30 and 4:30 for the next four days unless I happen to be on break, at lunch, or if I should decide to cash in the $20 Harkins Theatres giftcard I was given for exceeding expected levels of productivity.
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