Rant: Shut the F*&% Up About High Gas Prices

Violent Acres has a great rant about gas prices. Here’s a snip:

If one more person complains to me about the rising gas prices, I’m going to snap and break his fucking kneecaps.

Every morning, when I check the mail, my neighbor gives me a little wave and makes some disparaging comment about how the gas prices are killing him. And every morning, I want to ram his fucking newspaper right down his fucking throat because he’s the first person to hop in his car to drive to the corner store that is less than 1 mile away.

Fuck him. And fuck anyone else who wants to bitch and moan about gas prices, but can’t be bothered to take a walk. Or ride a bike. Or walk into their place of employment and say, “Hey guys, I was thinking about organizing a carpool. Anyone interested?”

Head over to Violent Acres and read the whole thing, it’s a good one.

Link [Violent Acres]

It’s a Long Way Back to The Office- A Pull Back in Work At Home Policies?

Tempers are likely to be rising high in offices around the country soon, as teleworkers are forced to rejoin the sheeple and go in to the office.

Intel recently began requiring many telecommuters in its information-technology group to report to the office at least four days a week. Full-time home-office workers now make up 1% to 2% of Intel’s 5,500 information-technology workers, down from less than 4%, a spokeswoman says; managers wanted “to keep the team spirit strong, which requires face-to-face interaction, impromptu dialogues, collaboration and mentoring,” she explains.

Here’s a few things former home workers need to think about before heading back into the office:

1. Personal Hygiene
2. No more Spontaneous Singing
3. No more Porn
4. Coffee
5. Computer allpaper
6. How to share the paper clips
7. YouTube
8. No more easy Dog Walks
9. Gotta be Discreet when shopping online
10. Household chores have to wait until after work.

In short, it’s going to be tough - who is going to want to give up all the perks of home working?
Not to mention the environmental effects of a zillion extra miles commuting to an office you don’t recognize, to interact with people you don’t like, causing higher levels of stress and various other forms of bad karma as workers are forced to regiment themselves into patterns of work they are not used to. Pollution, congestion, stress, millions of extra shirts to wash, gallons of extra coffee…
If office workers were meant to be together, the Flying Spaghetti Monster would have made office work enjoyable. It’s obvious when you think about it.

Our friends over at Web Daily Worker have some good home-working news - due to tax breaks, 135 businesses in Georgia have instituted new teleworker programs.

Do yourself a favor. Move to Georgia and negotiate yourself a nice four-day working teleworker job.

Then relocate yourself somewhere more interesting.

I hear Bermuda is nice at this time of year.

Link [Business Opportunities]

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