Advice From Morons
by Every single day I receive advice from complete idiots. Here are some of the things they say.
Everyday, at work, I get advice from my supervisors and managers. This advice doesn’t make any sense to me and more to the point when they tell me this nonsense when their idea of life skills are never moving out!(See: Grow Up!)
I will try and list as many as possible.
About a year ago I worked in a job that offered me quite a lot of overtime, I took the overtime to make some money. Well by the end of the month; on my payslip, there was no sign of the overtime. I queried this naturally and after a couple of months being told I wasn’t owed any money I decided to never again do overtime in that current job. This, for some reason, rattled the work place. I told my manager that I didn’t want any overtime and that they should put me back on my contracted hours (here comes the advice) and do you know what the genius said?
“I think you’re being stupid, you come here to work.”
Really? Do I go to work to work? No! I go there and work for money! Work that I wasn’t being paid for isn’t work: its slavery. So no, I don’t go to work to work; I go to work to make money.
I am not a doctor, I am not a policeman, I’m not saving lives, I work at the bottom end of the jobs; if I can survive on my contracted hours then rest assured you couldn’t make me work more with a gun to my head.
Another retarded piece of advice was given to me not too long ago. (By someone I’m fairly certain is mentally retarded.) I simply don’t understand their die hard need to lecture and educate people. It was again about overtime, a year later, in a different job:
“Will you work any overtime?” Says he,
“I’d rather not.” Says I,
“Why not?” He enquires,
“Because I choose not to?” I question, (now comes the unnecessary lecture!)
“You know life is about favours, you do favours for people and they do favours back.”
Seriously?! You’ve got to be kidding me! Life is about compromise, love, sacrifice, selflessness, happiness and so on… Its not about ‘favours’! I hope that person dies alone.
One spectacular thing that still amazes me, from the moment I started working until now they still say it; at every possible chance. Any argument I get into with my boss, whether it be serious or a joke ends 99% of the time in the same way:
“Maybe you should get another job.”
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