When it came to the future of work, the prophets of the past swarmed. Karl Marx believed that it would be possible for anyone to “hunt in the morning, fish in the afternoon, practice livestock breeding in the evening and criticize after dinner … without ever becoming a hunter, fisherman, shepherd or critic”. In turn, […]

This week, I changed my picture on Xing. Xing is a European career-oriented social networking site for enabling a small-world network for professionals. I thought about changing the pic, because I am about to change my job. So I thought that a new pic would match to a new job. The picture I made was okay, I was pretty satisfied with it although I did not use any make-up. Continue reading

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It’s Wednesday morning and I am sitting in a meeting at work. There are only a few people in the room but they are dressed in best clothes and they do feel very important I think. You can see this by the way they move and behave. The men do lean back in their chairs […]

Bamboo Tattoo

Mighty fortress made out of stone. Home where the Queen Bee has her throne. Hear the hum of daily toil. Timeless work that naught can spoil. Drones and Workers all uphold Richest hoard of liquid gold. Mighty fortress made out of stone. Home where the Queen Bee has her throne.

I’ve always wanted to be part of the community. It used to be the smokers, I wanted to belong to. They were cool, just a very special mentality. Smoking is shit! That was never the question. In the old days, everything which was shit and which was forbidden, was cool. Being with the cool ones […]

Is it a no, or is it a yes? Am I only one in a row, or is it paid with success? What was their impression, is their sympathy mine? Was it good expression or do they decline? I showed up motivation, my power and skills, I proved my dedication, not only to pay up […]

Only once would I like to do what I like to do. What would it be like to wake up in the morning, having joy to go to work today? What would it feel like, not to waste important time and a lot of nerves? We talk about green IT, conserve resources and climate change. […]

Luckily I have nothing to do with cannibals, but that’s not the point. Knife and fork are here symbolically for attendance and the lowest level of mental activity, cannibalism the working morale. The question is of course a rhetorical one, and the answer is NO! If someone superficially respects the rules, that does not make a bad acting […]

This is not my world I live in. I feel like I do not belong here. The days are blurred in front of my eyes and I only work.  Every day the same cloudy soup. I get up in the morning and have no desire for the day. All the ass-creepers, bootlickers and Yes-Sayers are […]