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Get Ready For the Rise of Minimum Work
You get what you pay for, and the corporate world hasn’t been paying much.
I don’t know what kind of schedule your company operates on, but mine likes to make corporate swag around December.
Every year, they ruin perfectly good sweaters, t-shirts, hats, keychains, and pens with their overblown company logo slapped atop them. They gift it to us in beautiful boxes with our names hand-written on them. The stuff inside is all our size.
It’s the only project I can praise my company on. Management-wise, they do a remarkable job at making sure everyone gets a toque with pom-poms and that no one has to endure the awkwardness of asking HR for a Large because someone accidentally put a Medium in their box.
We all gained some pandemic weight, and I can count on my company not to shame me for it.
Why do you need to see my face?
That’s just about the only good thing I can say about any of the corporate jobs I’ve ever had.
A few months ago, we had one of those big company updates. Once upon a time, we gathered in a conference room with coffees to stave off the sheer boredom that would wash over us once the CEO opened his mouth.
