That shit takes you when it takes you.
This morning I come into work and my boss says he has in impromptu meeting for us all. Turns out a dude in our section died this morning. He was in his late 40’s and was diabetic. He was having kidney problems, and had recently been in the hospital.
That doesn’t really mean anything though. It’s a fucking shame he died when he did. He hated the evil empire even more than I did. He wasn’t fooled by upper management throwing us bones every once in a while as they were eating steak. He was a good man, and I’ll miss him. These new kids coming into the section are so eager to please that they don’t have a real thought of their own. They don’t question or get angry about anything, and now there’s one less of us who still do.
In the end we’re all dead men.
Goodbye Gary. I’ll keep fighting for you.
That doesn’t really mean anything though. It’s a fucking shame he died when he did. He hated the evil empire even more than I did. He wasn’t fooled by upper management throwing us bones every once in a while as they were eating steak. He was a good man, and I’ll miss him. These new kids coming into the section are so eager to please that they don’t have a real thought of their own. They don’t question or get angry about anything, and now there’s one less of us who still do.
In the end we’re all dead men.
Goodbye Gary. I’ll keep fighting for you.
Labels: Disenfranchisement and Delusion within Corporate America, Fear
posted by lawryde at
8:50 AM
1 Comments:
Sorry to hear about the sudden demise of your coworker. I find it sort of amusing the way you speak of the young new kids when you are still very young and by most standards still a kid at that company. You just happen to have an old soul.
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Anonymous, at 2:35 PM, April 29, 2006
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