{"id":696,"date":"2010-04-14T19:23:35","date_gmt":"2010-04-15T01:23:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/?p=696"},"modified":"2010-04-14T19:32:18","modified_gmt":"2010-04-15T01:32:18","slug":"the-thin-line-between-an-honest-days-work-and-exploitation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/?p=696","title":{"rendered":"The thin line between an honest day&#8217;s work and exploitation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Grumble.\u00a0 Look at me complain!\u00a0 I do it well, so I will continue.\u00a0 I chose the job I have, and I can leave it whenever I want, I suppose.\u00a0 But I&#8217;ll still complain that there&#8217;s too much to do that I wouldn&#8217;t have to do if the people around me weren&#8217;t brain-dead.\u00a0 Okay, that&#8217;s an oversimplification.<\/p>\n<p>SOME of the people around me are brain-dead.\u00a0 And some just don&#8217;t care any more so they coast along.\u00a0 Along the coast.\u00a0 How much can I change this here prose before I&#8217;m talking about something completely unrelated?<\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s find out!<\/p>\n<p>Point of fact: Brains can leap out of skulls and fly.\u00a0 Don&#8217;t go looking for proof on this one, just trust me.<\/p>\n<p>Point of fact: My parents&#8217; cat meows in syllables.\u00a0 He says &#8220;Meow-ow&#8221; quite a lot.\u00a0 Also, he says &#8220;Meow-ow-ow&#8221; and Meow-ow-ow-ow&#8221; too.\u00a0 When he is annoyed that people aren&#8217;t paying the proper attention to him, he sometimes howls like a coyote.<\/p>\n<p>Point of fact: What the fuck did I do to my back?\u00a0 On Sunday night, I must have &#8220;slept on it funny&#8221;.\u00a0 Odd, because I didn&#8217;t fucking sleep much.\u00a0 I was unconscious, sure, but there wasn&#8217;t a lot of actual sleep going on.<\/p>\n<p>Have I ever bragged about how good I am at sleeping?\u00a0 Well, if you&#8217;ve missed it before, then hear this now.\u00a0 I sleep good.<\/p>\n<p>But that&#8217;s not something worth bragging about.\u00a0 I stack boxes really neatly at my job.\u00a0 I remember a year ago, when I was really busy with another HUGE project at work that&#8217;s basically all I fucking did.\u00a0 And wrap pallets.<\/p>\n<p>Fuck!\u00a0 It didn&#8217;t work!\u00a0 I was trying to change the subject and now I&#8217;m talking about fucking work again!<\/p>\n<p>Well, tonight I will derail and &#8216;splode my thoughts about work by having another Phone Sex conversation with one of the lovely and talented ladies available on NiteFlirt.\u00a0 I haven&#8217;t done that in a while, because 1) I&#8217;ve been too fucking busy and tired and 2) I&#8217;ve been taking muscle relaxants before bed, so I&#8217;m dizzy and incoherent during a time when ideally I&#8217;d be giving orders to a pretty female android and telling her to get busy with similar machines.<\/p>\n<p>But I must wait for one of these ladies to &#8220;get on&#8221; 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