Arghhh!

Laziness, the ultimate vice. This is the category under which I'm willing to place myself regarding blog updates. On the other hand, I've been busier than ever at work and to return to the ever-popular topic of job-bashing, today I thought of letting some steam out again.

Before getting into any further, I'll make a little disclaimer that yes, I do know that I'm not the only one nor the last one experiencing these things, but that does not make me feel any better so here goes...

Responsibility. Key word for anyone who wants to make any headway in their career. You gotta take more of it on all the time if you wish to get anywhere. This I understand but at the same time feel like the employers are conniving bastards who want to take every single drop of sweat you're capable of squeezing out for them.

I've been given so many new responsibilities lately that it's outrageous. Do I want them? To an extent yes but not as many as I've been given. I simply have started stressing about work which I thought to be an impossibility for me, until now. Do I get anything out of this? Not really, unless you count in the experience gained in trying to make things work. Once again, herein lies the paradox; how far am I prepared to go without being compensated for it? My situation will not allow for any bargaining as I was made to believe that I was lucky to survive the acquisition last summer so now I'm supposed to take all the crap they pour on me without a hitch. Right. You see now where I'm coming from?

Anyway, maybe I'll one day say that it was a good thing after all and paid off. On the other hand, I really have no faith in such thing happening right now. Maybe Xinola is right, we should just bugger off somewhere warm and nice and run a guest house or something and say goodbye and fuck off to this miserable corporate world. Time will tell...

I have been a little bit upset about reading news from my hometown recently. The main employer (an international forestry and paper giant) is about to lay off 120 workers (over 3000 globally) for competitiveness reasons and another important employer has just done the same for 43 employees. Now this may not sound like much but my hometown has just 20.000 inhabitants and it will definitely cause a shock for many families. I feel for them, I really do.

At the same time I read from media that some well-known shareholders of this very same forestry company have just made tens of thousands of euros since the announcement was made and the shares rocketed. It's kinda weird isn't it? I know that they have invested their money into the company by buying the shares but it's only the people who have enough money to buy enough shares to make anything out of them that come accross with such profits. This is the modern way - shareholder is the king. It is being said that in the modern free market economy there's always someone who loses and someone who wins. Need I say more...

Blah, getting angrier by the minute so I guess should just give up. To finish up with a positive note, there's only three more weeks and it is holiday time!!!