To Be A Cynic Is To Be An Artist

Last time i checked a survey about the best kind of employees, or about what type of qualities make an employee an asset in an enterprise i was very surprised to read that it is not based on skill. What makes anybody an asset in the workplace just boils down to "interpersonal relationships" (by the way, last time i read a survey was like 2 years ago for my psych class). Interpersonal relationships are basically the way you act and react not only to the environment around you, but with the people that interact in said environment.

Yes, its a shock, in the end it does not matter how well you do the job what matters is how well you take it up the ass and smile as your boss and co-workers fuck you. Its a hard lesson to learn, it was difficult during my first job, but then you learn to appreciate how difficult the porn industry really is. Anyways, as with everything that is fucked up in this world, we cannot change it, we can only...adapt i guess.

We all struggle in a job, and its sad that its come down to smiling as you know your boss is driving an imaginary phallus deep into your imaginary rectum, but hey, we deal with it, because we need to, because lately having a steady job sounds more like an urban legend than the truth. We all put up with it, and i want not only to congratulate myself, but also to congratulate you if you sometimes feel like an abused spouse who mistakes a spit in the face with love...(lets take a minute to contemplate on something as fucked as society's values of what gets the job done). But what we cannot and what we should not permit is to sell our principles, our ideas or our very souls to ingratiate ourselves with our bosses. That means let's not be the workplace whore, you know who im talking about, that guy or that chick that never does any real work, but makes it his/her sole purpose to be on the boss' good side, the one who asks "so mr. such and such how's the wife and the kid?" or "hey mr. such and such, i brought you coffee, extra sweet 'cuz i know you like it that way" and makes even stupider comments like "man, you must have had fun in the bahamas mr. such and such" or even worse "i bought you this cap, 'cause i know how much you like the yankees!" i mean... WHAT THE FUCK? its not like we care, your boss is and will alway be that asshole that doesnt pay you enough or steals all your good ideas and he/she ends up looking better to his/her superiors, and now our bosses expect us to what? kiss ass? since when did that become an entry in our resume? and who gives gifts to the boss? i mean they get paid more than we ever do, and they are the first to object when we ask for a raise, so come on! one thing is to have interpersonal skills, another is to sell our dignity to some asshole for scraps off his/her table...what im trying to say is if we give our dignity, our self respect...what will we have left for ourselves?