Office Space

"The people you work with, are people you were just thrown together with. You don't know them, it wasn't your choice. And yet you spend more time with them than you do your friends or your family, but probably all you've got in common, is the fact that you walk around on the same bit of carpet for eight hours a day."
-Tim Canterbury, The Office

So I'm getting dumped again this week.

I've worked about my current place of employment for almost five years.

I've seen people come and go.

The one lesson I've learned over the years is to either not get too attached or get so attached to the point that their departure just means that I will have to make the extra effort to keep in touch with them.

But it's still sucks when people quit.

Not that my job sucks or anything (I've come to believe that anything I do would "suck" because frankly I hate getting out of bed and changing out of our of my pajamas) but working at job you don't love or are dedicated too is like being in a bad relationship with some redeeming qualities like, "The sex isn't great but she likes Lost too" or "I can't stand the sound of her voice but she makes great turkey meatloaf*".

You and everyone you are working with are in the same relationship, dating the same girl and dating each other by default. You go out to bars afterwards or out to lunch together to complain about her but the next day, you're still in the relationship.

But sometimes, yous work boyfriends and girlfriends are seeing other jobs on the side. If you catch them in the act, they say, "Oh, it's not serious." or "We're just friends." But you can see the writing on the wall. They are cheating on you.

The you get the phone call or the e-mail that says "I'm leaving you. It's not you, it's me."** In the back of your mind , or maybe the front, you are hurt because they left before you did. They broke up with the job before you did. You just never got around to it. You were unhappy in this relationship too but having your friend suffering the same fate made it easier to take. Or maybe you are just so comfortable in this relationship and you're too lazy to change.

So you're stuck here with this shitty relationship while your friends go off to their new shitty relationship. If you like the person enough, you promise to have a long-distance relationship. You say you'll call and write and still go out whenever both of you have time but it's never the same.

But if you're lucky, their new girl has a equally attractive twin sister to hook you up with.

I've been offered to be hooked up with many twin sisters and I've half-hearted ventured our into the singles market but I'm still here.

I guess I'm lazy...or none of the other jobs have been that hot.

I have no idea what this post is about by the way.

[Note: By the time I actually got around to finishing this, I got "dumped" again]

* What does this say about what it takes to keep me in a relationship
** Although sometimes the job dumps your friend with a note saying, "It wasn't working out." and you wish it dumped you too.