Tis' amazing how the quality of the people that you work with can miraculously change your outlook on going to work.
While my workplace is a battlefield of personality-less engineers on a testosterone rampage for the title of biggest ego, there are a handful of merry humans which fall into the category of "real people" and essentially make life cool. Whilst a minority, we band together like a gang of freedom fighters looking to overturn the evil tyrants who rule over us. What do they do to Engineers at university to drain all laughter and life out of them? Do they put them through "Negativity and Pessimism 101" or were they like that before becoming certified bad guys?
This small rebellious troupe of scallywags, rascals, hooligans, rougues and ruffians cling to principles of joyousness - never working a minute longer than is absolutely necessary, ensuring "site inspections" and "field work" at the local cafe are undertaken at regular intervals and preaching work-life balance from the rooftops.
Finding these kindred spirits has turned the cell that is my workplace into a carnival.
C.K.
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8 May 2011
22 Dec 2009
Angry Office Christmas Monkeys.
Every office has one. Ours is full of them. AOCMs refuse to be quiet and let every one else enjoy the festive season preferring to revel in stories of queuing, sunburn, expenses, crowds, hatred of Christmas Carols and unnecessary happy frivolity in general.
We festooned our AOCMs desk with Christmas lights and abundant glittery decorations and instead of being a sport about it; he had a tantrum and tore them down. To be honest our AOCM is an AOM the rest of the year anyway. He is constantly scowling and miserable and this tends to rub off on the people around him. Everyday he arrives at 7am, the same time as me and has something new to rubbish. As much as I enjoy a healthy debate and appreciate people with the gall to have an opinion to an age where no-one seems to care, it is easy to be negative. It takes much more courage to draw a line in the sand in support of something.
Here is a short piece of advice to AOCMs worldwide:
Life is what you make it. By simply putting a smile on your face, even a false one, you can trick your mind into being positive and feeling happy, and it is contagious to those around you. Go and buy a CD of Christmas songs and sing Boney-Ms "Mary's Boy Child" or the early nineties live aid combo by Bob Geldof, "Do they know its Christmas" as loud as possible on your way to work. It will change your life.
Feliz Navidad
C.K
We festooned our AOCMs desk with Christmas lights and abundant glittery decorations and instead of being a sport about it; he had a tantrum and tore them down. To be honest our AOCM is an AOM the rest of the year anyway. He is constantly scowling and miserable and this tends to rub off on the people around him. Everyday he arrives at 7am, the same time as me and has something new to rubbish. As much as I enjoy a healthy debate and appreciate people with the gall to have an opinion to an age where no-one seems to care, it is easy to be negative. It takes much more courage to draw a line in the sand in support of something.
Here is a short piece of advice to AOCMs worldwide:
Life is what you make it. By simply putting a smile on your face, even a false one, you can trick your mind into being positive and feeling happy, and it is contagious to those around you. Go and buy a CD of Christmas songs and sing Boney-Ms "Mary's Boy Child" or the early nineties live aid combo by Bob Geldof, "Do they know its Christmas" as loud as possible on your way to work. It will change your life.
Feliz Navidad
C.K
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