Existentialism in the Workforce

Subtitled: On why I probably haven’t climbed up the corporate ladder as fast as my talent and skill set would have predicted.

Coworker #1: “The CEO isn’t getting his email. I think it’s a problem with his mailfile. The only way to fix it is to reboot the server.”

Coworker #2: “ Uh, uh. We can’t reboot the server in the middle of the day.”

Coworker #1: “Well, we have to. He’s the CEO.”

Coworker #2: “So? We can’t inconvenience 250 other employees for one person.”

Coworker #1: “But he’s the CEO? What do you think?”

Me: “CEO, C-E-Schmoe. If you look at it from the perspective of the common housefly, he’s just another thing to land on. Right? I mean, it’s not as if he would stack up any better than you or I would when compared to a pile of shit... I say, he can wait.”

Cricket. Cricket.

Comments

[Jenny]

I think we might be related. And we are never going to get promoted.

[slackermommy]

I've tagged you for Morgen's Halloween Meme.

[blog_antagonis]

LOL! Great minds think alike. After 11 years out of the workforce, I have no patience for "very important people", not that I had any before.

[Oh, The Joys]

...just another thing to land on... Ha ha ha ha!! I routinely have to work with CEOs, so I am LAUGHING.

[jen]

Love it. But you needed to add the part about Co-worker #1's face when you said it.