the new mba class for the fall trimester started up yesterday and i fear that i'm enrolled in a steaming load of crap over the next 14 weeks. the class is 'organizational behavior' and it wasn't more than ten minutes into the first session last night that my bullshit alarm was chirping and my inner skeptic was being fitted for a straight jacket. while some of the topics we covered were somewhat interesting and i know i can rock a superior grade because a good deal of the class work involves writing about yourself (any reader of this here journal knows i can serve up legit quantity about myself to no end), i can't get over the hokey kum-bye-ya tone that the class instructor has. you know, the whole motivational speaker dilly where she'll repeat the same phrase 3 or 4 times using the same cadence like its some fucking mantra.
at one point she said something about how the papers we submit have to in touch with our inner selves. i whispered something about jerking off into a tissue and submitting it to a kid sitting next to me but i think the instructor was none too impressed with my humor or my friend's snickering.
more on the upward mobility tip, i applied for a gig with one of those multinational conglomerates to be the head of PR for their LA office. just on a whim i was crusing some job sites and i came across what seems like a very cherry position. it didn't take more than 5 minutes to fill out the online app and submit a re-tooled resume and i'm curious to see how i meet their requirements for the position. its really a sideways move and i'm not attempting to make the jump to a senior management/vp type position so qualifications probably aren't my shortcomings. i'm mainly fearing that there's somebody else with an inside hook that's going to snake the opportunity from me.
chris rock says in his newest stand-up that behind every great fortune there is a great crime. this company is no exception as they've made a ton of loot off of child labor in those foreign machilladora type factories. of course, most products we consume have come at the expense of those that are less fortunate. the overwhelming majority of clothes we wear are the product of sweatshops--both foreign and domestic--and the food we eat comes from the deforested rainforest. hell, even my jerome baker bong that i love so much was made by 10 year old children in india.
i'm sure that coming from someone who makes a living off the pandering of flesh that this hippie-tastic rant against big corporations is more than a tad hypocritical but this is a significant issue that needs to be resolved if i am to go in for an interview. is revenue from the neverending stream of young, naive, and inevitably exploited girls that come to the san pornando valley to make movies any better or worse than representing a company that pays children pennies a day to work 10 hour shifts? am i stuck in a cycle where i'm subservient to paychecks that come from products resulting from suffering of others? or should i feel secure about my place in society because at least i ain't making chemical weapons or strangling kittens?
at one point she said something about how the papers we submit have to in touch with our inner selves. i whispered something about jerking off into a tissue and submitting it to a kid sitting next to me but i think the instructor was none too impressed with my humor or my friend's snickering.
more on the upward mobility tip, i applied for a gig with one of those multinational conglomerates to be the head of PR for their LA office. just on a whim i was crusing some job sites and i came across what seems like a very cherry position. it didn't take more than 5 minutes to fill out the online app and submit a re-tooled resume and i'm curious to see how i meet their requirements for the position. its really a sideways move and i'm not attempting to make the jump to a senior management/vp type position so qualifications probably aren't my shortcomings. i'm mainly fearing that there's somebody else with an inside hook that's going to snake the opportunity from me.
chris rock says in his newest stand-up that behind every great fortune there is a great crime. this company is no exception as they've made a ton of loot off of child labor in those foreign machilladora type factories. of course, most products we consume have come at the expense of those that are less fortunate. the overwhelming majority of clothes we wear are the product of sweatshops--both foreign and domestic--and the food we eat comes from the deforested rainforest. hell, even my jerome baker bong that i love so much was made by 10 year old children in india.
i'm sure that coming from someone who makes a living off the pandering of flesh that this hippie-tastic rant against big corporations is more than a tad hypocritical but this is a significant issue that needs to be resolved if i am to go in for an interview. is revenue from the neverending stream of young, naive, and inevitably exploited girls that come to the san pornando valley to make movies any better or worse than representing a company that pays children pennies a day to work 10 hour shifts? am i stuck in a cycle where i'm subservient to paychecks that come from products resulting from suffering of others? or should i feel secure about my place in society because at least i ain't making chemical weapons or strangling kittens?
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as far as your journal goes - it's pretty unfortunate that it seems the only way to not be a slave to THE MACHINE is to be poor for a very long time. i'm by no means raking it in, but the fact that i work for a company with strong social morals and i can still pay my bills thrills me to no end. i got lucky. but i was also unemployed for 2 years before i got this job. so, you give, you take... i guess. or something like that.
and keep in mind, if you don't do that job, someone else will. but maybe you can spend the loot you get (if you get the job) with a bit more conscience than the average joe who just wants to buy an H2. maybe that's just rationalizing, but what the hell...
I'm stoked about having a marker of my own again.
I wonder if any of the autos have a three shot mode.