Tuesday, February 21, 2006
exciting story #7 partially unemployed me
Dear readers. It is my sad duty to inform you of my recent lack of discipline and insufficient work morale. After 8 weeks of interviewing innocent consumers on various subjects (cars, inernet usage, newspapers and, my personal favourite: bananas) I quit my beloved job at Telder's. It was neither the verbal harassment by the respondents, nor was it the yelling episodes of a certain supervisor that caused me to give up. It was the lack of challenge and stimulation that finally got to me. Every shift lasted 4 hours without a break and I got bored after about one hour so the last three hours were a disaster. I worked 2 shifts in a week so for 6 hours every week I was so bored time seemed to go 10 times slower. It was simple maths that persuaded me to quit in the end. If time goes 10 times slower for 6 hours a week that's 60 hours a week. If I had continued to work there it would have meant that I would have spent 60 x 52 = 3120/24 = 130 days of my life in misery every single year! I believe this would have had a serious effect on my mental health as well as my mood. My mood affects the wellbeing of people around me. And since I work in a supermarket, my mood affects a whole village. The people in that village work all over the country so my mood affects the entire Netherlands. And, as the laws of globalisation tell us, no country stands alone. Every country is part of a global network so my mood affects the entire world. So, dear readers, I did not just quit my job last week, I actually brought humanity closer to world-peace. But I'm a humble person so no need to give me the Nobel peace prize. Just send me some money to make up for my missing income.
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