FORUM FUN FEATURE!! How Bad Is It?

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Gripe, whine, complain, grouse, and lament. All some of you folks do is moan at great length about how your escapes to Playa are all that save you from the horrible experience that is your career. How bad can it be?? Check out the following:

Just How Bad Is Your Job?

Place an “X” in each appropriate box.

1. HEALTH
□ Work with dangerous. noxious chemicals.
□ Work with dangerous, noxious co-workers.

2. WORK OVERLOAD
□ Laughably unrealistic deadlines.
□ Work is piled on until your head explodes.

3. WORK UNDERLOAD
□ Required to look busy when there’s nothing to do.
□ Brain is atrophying from idleness.

4. TIME PRESSURES
□ Have to work too fast.
□ Have to work too slow.
□ Have to work like a machine.
□ Don’t even have time to finish this checklist.

5. SECURITY
□ Threat of being fired or laid off constantly hangs over your head.
□ Ridiculous health plan.
□ Preposterous pension plan.
□ Petite financial rewards.

6. CO-WORKERS
□ Unfriendly co-workers.
□ Malicious co-workers.
□ Co-workers even more screwed up than you.

7. BOREDOM
□ Job requires the brains of a retarded chimp.
□ Work seems totally pointless.
□ Job requires tedious tasks to be done over, and over, and over, until you scream.

8. THE BOSS
□ Says nothing.
□ Stares.
□ Has veins in forehead that throb menacingly.
□ Tells terrible tasteless jokes.
□ Takes pleasure in destroying what few pleasures you find in life.
□ Has breath that would knock a vulture off a garbage truck.

9. HOPELESSNESS
□ No hope for promotion.
□ No hope for a raise.
□ No hope for personal improvement.
□ No hope for happiness.
□ No hope for escape.

10. MENTAL MANIFESTATIONS
□ Chronic fatigue syndrome.
□ Embittered cynicism.
□ Sneering hatefulness.
□ So apathetic that this list barely registers in your benumbed mind.
□ So close to completely flipping out that this list makes you giggle mirthlessly and squirm like an itchy bear cub.

11. PHYSICAL MANIFESTATIONS
□ Slumping shoulders.
□ Backache.
□ Desert dry mouth.
□ Puking.
□ Death.

12. PHILOSOPHY OF LIFE
Two statements follow. Check the one that most closely describes your current outlook.
□ Misery loves company.
□ The company loves misery.


INTERPRETING YOUR SCORE

No boxes checked -You may have a good job, but rest assured everybody hates you.
Some boxes checked - Perhaps you should be pursuing other employment opportunities.
All boxes checked - Oh cheer up!