The seven habits of highly dejected people
Bryan O'Sullivan
1. Being inactive: prolonging personal misery
2. Beginning when bored out of your mind: following principles of
lassitude
3. Putting any old goddamn thing first: I mean, does it fucking
matter?
4. Thinking win-win-oh-hang-on-maybe-break-even-aw-fuck-this-shit
5. Seeking first to understand, then to slink away into the corner as
incomprehension reigns
6. Seeding listlessness among coworkers: spreading the word, as if it
really made a bit of difference
7. Keeping the spirit fatigued: making time to mope
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Ronan Waide
In article <8791c4d...@organon.serpentine.com>,
Bryan O'Sullivan <b...@serpentine.com> wrote:
>
>6. Seeding listlessness among coworkers: spreading the word, as if it
> really made a bit of difference
...then I gave up and just left the company. Much more effective.
Waider. The word-spreading never went far vertically. Ergo, no change.
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the reverse-psychology major
In article <4tg43b$b...@waider.ie>, Ronan Waide <ro...@waider.ie> wrote:
>In article <8791c4d...@organon.serpentine.com>,
>Bryan O'Sullivan <b...@serpentine.com> wrote:
>>
>>6. Seeding listlessness among coworkers: spreading the word, as if it
>> really made a bit of difference
>
>...then I gave up and just left the company. Much more effective.
>
beelzibub
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Lisa Chabot
In article <4tg43b$b...@waider.ie>, Ronan Waide <ro...@waider.ie> wrote:
>In article <8791c4d...@organon.serpentine.com>,
>Bryan O'Sullivan <b...@serpentine.com> wrote:
>>
>>6. Seeding listlessness among coworkers: spreading the word, as if it
>> really made a bit of difference
>
>...then I gave up and just left the company. Much more effective.
Even as we speak. But then, I haven't had any direct cow orkers to
enlistlessness for about a year. Heck, what's the fun in that.
.
. of course today, when I'm trying to do dumps JIC, the next-to-the-last
. sparcstation, the fileserver for all the dead projects, has decided to die
.
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Marc Moorcroft
In article <4tg43b$b...@waider.ie>, Ronan Waide <ro...@waider.ie> wrote:
>In article <8791c4d...@organon.serpentine.com>,
>Bryan O'Sullivan <b...@serpentine.com> wrote:
>>
>>6. Seeding listlessness among coworkers: spreading the word, as if it
>> really made a bit of difference
>
>...then I gave up and just left the company. Much more effective.
Congratulations.
When talking about leaving my last job, I used to go on about _Aladdin_,
and the scene at the end, when he frees the genie. But I think that
from now on I'll just mention it, and if anyone says it's overdone,
I'll smile slightly and say, "No, it's not."
Marc EM
I'm history, no, I'm methodology, oh, I don't care what I am, I'm freeee...
Lloyd Wood
b...@serpentine.com (Bryan O'Sullivan) wrote:
>1. Being inactive: prolonging personal misery
>
>2. Beginning when bored out of your mind: following principles of
> lassitude
>
>3. Putting any old goddamn thing first: I mean, does it fucking
> matter?
>
>4. Thinking win-win-oh-hang-on-maybe-break-even-aw-fuck-this-shit
>
>5. Seeking first to understand, then to slink away into the corner as
> incomprehension reigns
>
> really made a bit of difference
>
7a. Posting to usenet to try and evoke the same dejectedness in others.
L.
I only ever evoke the happy smile of gleeful killfiling.
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Jonathan D Schuster
goven...@venter.und.ac.za wrote:
>what on earth is a cow orker
Dear friend,
I am not sure how much you know of the American Mid-west.
From time to time, we are visited by strange aliens from
another space-time continuum. These fun-loving pranksters
travel from their homes in far-away places for the express
purpose of late night (or maybe even early-morning) raids
on isolated farm communities where they surgically remove
i.e. "ork" the internal organs of cows (and sometimes sheep
but that is referred to by some other phrase that escapes me)
Sometimes the tongues are removed as well, but I think that
is a part of some sexual ritual and not really germane to
this discussion, although I have some neat-o "JPG"s of
some of that if you are interested.
So therefore, in the process of "ork"ing these cows, these
highly advanced and technologically brilliant aliens - hey, after
all, they made it all the way here at FTL speeds, they gotta be
a lot smarter than we are (and moreso than most cows, anyway)-
who have absolutely nothing better to do than to arouse the fears
of UFO cultists on obscure back-water planets that don't even
have a cure for cancer yet, for chrissakes, let alone a spacedrive,
are often referred to as cow orkers. By the way, cow orking
is sometimes confused with the earth-human-rural practice
of "cow tipping", which isn't really the same thing at all.
Hey look, gotta run, but it has been a pleasure helping you
out with your query. If you have any more, just ask.
J D Schuster
dangling his participles in public again
goven...@venter.und.ac.za
walker
On 31 Jul 1996 09:52:58 GMT, goven...@venter.und.ac.za wrote:
>what on earth is a cow orker
this one is tough - I mean, we know what a cow is......or at least we
have seen pictures of them on milk cartons, and sung about them on
"Old McDonalds Farm".....where they just kill them and make burgers
out of them, but only if they are from Brazil......
But an "orker".......it should fall between orison and orlon in the
dictionary...but it does not......perhaps if we break it down......
we got OR.
middle english - other...the contraction of which, is the conjunction
OR.
French - gold (d'or)
Latin - gold (aurum)
so gold.....why not? best 2 out of 3 anyhow....
then there is KER.
greek - keras (horn) - like keratin
greek - keros (wax) - like kerosene
hmmmmmmmm.......horny golden cows? other wax cows? golden horny cows?
golden wax cows?
maybe it's some secret code by Mcdonald's.....something along the
lines of......"more fillers in the beef means more money in our
pockets" .....wax-cow-gold......
who knows? Maybe it's something so basic that even someone you work
with could tell you......
walker
bill coderre
ork v. nonce-wd., to make an orc or monster of.
1631 P. Fletcher Sicelides F ij b, I Orkt you once, and now Ile fit you
for a Cupid.
mr HEINOUS
From the OED. Imagination is left as an exercise for the reader.