watch out! i'm just a normal girl

Tuesday, May 23, 2006

So lets talk for a moment about where i work.
I definatley work in corporate america.

And i don't exactly have the corporate mind set.
let me preface everythign i am about to spew with this company lets me show up looking like a hobo, i laugh as loud as i want, and am as flamboyantly un-corporate as i want to be. Basically i am a rebellious pre-teen of the corporate world, but instead of getting fired, they just laugh and tell me its great. so in all honesty i have zero right to complain.

but when has that stopped me

i work at a company that hates the following: vowels, math, and color
its pretty much the triumverate of healthy living.

one really does need vowels regardless of how sleek the lack of vowels might make a word look, you need them for syllable formation. its integral to the definition of syllable actually... each syllable must have a vowel. so basically the place i work is not only anti syllable but anti the english language or language in general since i believe syllable is pan-cultural. and since it can be argued that language is the symbol construct used to create "culture" one could also say that where i work is anti established culture...... or whatever..i'm just saying

they also hate math.. the rules of math, and basically real numbers in general. While i am perhaps the greatest champion of numbers as non-entities, and the concept that math exists as a logical expression of the imagination.... however; we choose to opperate in a society that relies on the rules that math provides. One would think that corporate america, which relies on convention to such a stifling degree as to cause psychological crisis amongst those in its hold, would obey the rules that math provides... rules like..... one hundred percent.
let me begin by defining percent... it comes from oh maybe the french or some other latin root meaning out of 100. its basically a representation of a fraction. if you have a pie, you can't have more than all of that pie.. assuming it is the only pie in the room. its just not possible. allow me to reiterate that it is NOT POSSIBLE to have more than 100% however. here in this place..... 100% is only about a "c" if you get 100% on your "performance metrics", i won't even get into how nauseating i find it to be quantified, um.. so yes if you score 100% there are still points you have to acheive in order to be okay... now please explain to me how 100% is not 100% of the points. i find this to be highly disturbing. this powerful global multi bazillion corporation... can't figure out you can't have more than 100 percent. its just a mathmatical impossibility.....
And they get pretty irritated when you tell them so.

umm oh and also they hate color.. and by that i mean my world is grey grey grey both in the literal and metaphorical sense. people love their beige lives. and their grey spartan cubicles

VIVE LA REVOLUTION!




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