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Quest for Superseniority

Some of my fellow employees may have felt threatened by my strange requirement for monetary consideration in exchange for the great ideas I always submitted, the raw energy and enthusiam I always projected, along with numerous over the top labors and tasks I performed.

I myself, was more than content with agreed upon wage scale. I really enjoyed the fast paced sales floor along with rubbing shoulders among some old friends and employers. Things were going fine until my wife pointed out the little insignificant fact about my bank account still in the negative for the last couple of weeks even after my weekly check was direct deposited.

I didn't feel that I was any better that the current staff. It's quite possible that they are being grossly under paid as well. In the depths of my spirit I clearly knew where this situation was destined to go. Hope unfulfilled leaves one's spirit desiccated. I needed to address my hope for more money SOON!

I posted a few requests for suggestions on some of the blogs. I questioned some friends....."How does one ask for a raise after such a short period of employment?" I received no replies from my various blogs and forum groups. So after filling up my gas tank one morning preparing for the long ride in to work, I called in and quickly explained to the boss that I wasn't coming in unless I received more cash, moolah, green stuff, money, duckets, quid, snip, piek, ability to do damage, rupees, yen, tons ect......
In short he said, "NO!"

I felt Actually felt relieved. Without being a platitudinarian I thought to myself, "Sooner is better than later." I then replied to him in a patellar reflex fashion, "SEE YA!"

The preceding discussion took place more than one month ago. So how are things going? I encourage every reader to go out and work within a sweat shop for an abusive, demoralizing, acrimonious individual. It's the perfect cure for the stalled, stagnant entrepreneur. I'm currently making more money in one day than I was making per month working for the man. Nouveau pauvre is what I thought I was doomed to endure when I left his employ. Instead I was filled with a new sense of purpose, drive and vision that's directing me systematically to the land of nou veau riche.

As far as jobs go...... it's always about the Money! It's always been about the Money!

Allergic to Poverty

I performed a mental search in hopes of some inkling of discernment. Why was I destined to return to the employ of such a curmudgeon surrounded by and outnumbered by so many anencephalus creatures. Now aged and developing misanthropy. It forced resipiscence upon my soul. I needed a much high mentor to navigate this manumit.

Then it hit me like a ton of bricks!

The reason for this refreshing lesson in bondage was a priceless reminder in the value of hard work. I now remember my true source of provision. I'm theodidact by nature. Taught and directed from on high. In my temporary state of schemozzle, I learned a valuable lesson.

I'm allergic to being broke.

It's the Target's Fault!

So the boss has intently changed my wages 4 times since the beginning of this adventure. The first was a cap on hours. The second was required double initials on tickets cutting individual effort by 50%. The third and fourth were caused by adjusting the overall production quota midway thru the grading period. His reasoning.....the betterment of the whole followed by stating that if one is unable to hit a certain target, don't blame it on the target.

I consider myself an expert shot both in goal setting and on the pistol range. On the range we refer to an acronym known as BRASS. It means breath, relax, aim, squeeze and shoot. Funny thing, if I follow all required steps correctly when shooting, I always hit the target and I always score quite highly. Now if the target falls down or unexpectedly moves while I going thru the steps, it's the targets fault.

I would like to hang around for free. Financial obligations disagree with that nonsense.

Procrustes's Bed

I was talking to one of the staff today about my inner dissuasion to throw in the towel. It appears as if I'm sometimes sitting on the edge of Procrustes's Bed. Let me explain. The current system has become one of conformity for conformity's sake. The sub-culture has become the advantage rather than the disadvantage. Without sounding procacious, the current system is become the breeding ground for the lundane. My fellow staff member explained the advantage in the number of repetitions but failed to understand that only repetitions of correctly performing a task leads to an advantage.

Small Heads Building the Case For Phrenology

It's been said that those who think they know everything are very annoying to us who actually do. It's has also been said that phrenology is a false premise. I say that the small headed individuals who surround us on a daily basis give credence to the opposite premise. These are they who's minds are too small to contain simple cephalalgia.

Vanity bids for possession of the minds of those who disdain axiological considerations as pertaining to the pursuit of one's purpose. I once thought the sluggard to be my dreaded bete noire have discovered a personal embedded malaise for Mr. and Mrs Little Heads.

Mr. and Mrs. Little Heads are the lurkers of society. They hide in the shadows for fear of the light. They cause the roifaineant to pervert righteousness judgements.

What was once dubbed as stinking thinking has matured into a full blown stercoricolous mentality. Yet the anencephalus treks forward steady as it goes, like a train without an engine.

Now for the million dollar question.......how long will my big head need to succumb to this schemozzle before the dreaded inevitable meltdown? Only God knows!

Runnin Low on Yes Sir's

It's a common practice to count one's resources before embarking upon a long journey or undertaking on a ardeous task. I feel as if I should have counted my "Yes Sir's", prior to signing up for this mission. It seems as if I'm running short on them. It also appears that the King is in dire need of a tympanoplasty. The family prophetess spoke a true word for he listens to the rat fleas.

Even so, the Lord shall have them in derision and mete out swift retribution.