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Lovely that this whole thread happened while I was OUT OF THE OFFICE
and therefore unable to contribute to it.
God, I just love being the resident whipping-boy, so I'll go and
stick my mouth in it further.
Working in an office... yeah, I did it for TEN FUCKING YEARS. Oh, I
loved every minute of it, it was so fulfilling, everyone I worked
with was interesting and intellectually stimulating and amazing. I
loved working in Corporate AmeriBritannia so damned much that when
the car runs out of gas and my fake pop star career ends, I'm going
back to working in an office cause I LOVE IT SO DAMNED MUCH!!!
For fucks SAKE... if all of you work in offices, you should
understand the fucking mentality I'm talking about!
All you people in offices, take a look around you. Look at the person
in the cubicle, veal fattening pen, room, desk, next to you. Look at
their CD collection. Do they even have one? Look at the photos on
their desk, look at their wallpaper, look at the paperback or
magazine they read on the tube/subway/bus/drive home from work.
When I say I hate office people, do you think I'm talking about *YOU*
personally, or do you think I'm talking about THEM?
There is a vast difference between working in an office and being an
Office Person.
Is that a horribly elitist thing to say? Fuck yeah, I *AM* an
elitist. If you're not an elitist, shoot yourself now to free up your
crucial food supply for the rest of the bleeding cattle.
I am not saying that all people who find themselves working in
offices are crap. I am saying that working in an office leads either
to becoming crap, or else hiding all your non-crap impulses under a
veneer of office culture that you have to come here to defend your
Personhood. Have no emotions. Show no Passion. Never break the mold.
For fucks sake, all of you have passion, or you wouldn't be here
discussing music.
You can wibble away like a bleeding heart liberal of the white collar
slum and say "all of them are trapped in the office ghetto, it's not
their fault, they are all oppressed by the same yoke, etc. everyone
resents Office Culture, but they do it to feed their families and pay
their rent, just like you" but that is fucking BOLLOCKS because you
know as well as I do that so many of those fucking cattle ASPIRE to
office culture, ENJOY it and PERPETUATE it. If they don't, then WHY
ARE THEY DOING IT?!?!?
I have a right to despise Office Culture because I was forced to
attempt to conform to its strictures for so damned long.
I am not a veal fattening pen, I am a FREE MAN!!!
You're right. Maybe I've worked in some crap offices. And maybe I'm
just incorrigible, and saved from life in prison only by my intellect
and my Upper Middle Class upbringing.
But don't tell me office life isn't crap cause you work in one and
you're not crap. The exception proves the rule. Now go and read
Dilbert.
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And as to owning only 12 CDs, well FINE if you're my fucking
grandmum. I'm venturing a grand guess that most people here own
substantially more than that, or they would bloody well BE on a music
board in the first place.
Newflash: most people don't care about music. They think it's some
childish passtime that they grow out of at the age of 22. Then again,
most people voted for Tony Blair, didn't they?
As someone who has spent their entire life defending their passion
about music to Office People, and the whole "what the heck is this
Brian Jonestown Massacre nonsense about, then?" crap I go through
with them. How nice to come to a board full of people who own more
than 12 CDs and face the same pedestrian crap. Over bloody fist
fucking bollock breaking ABBA.
― kate the saint, Friday, 27 April 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
six years pass...