re: Love Machine: What Work Is

amboabe — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 02:52:52 GMT

Under most circumstances jobs don't require people to stay in the office for 20 hours, and work to the point where consuming 50 ounces of coffee in one sitting have no effect at all. I did it for years, but it is anomalous.

re: Love Machine: What Work Is

PO — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 22:50:27 GMT

"I remember one night I had to stay up to finish coverage on a script, and I made a fresh pot of coffee at 2AM, poured the entire pot into a Big Gulp cup, drank every last drop in twenty minutes, and still managed to pass out dead asleep two hours later when I was finally done. The next day my boss read the coverage report in 3 minutes, put it back in his outbox for me to file, and it was never seen again."

That's your fucking job. You read the script and summarize it in 2 hours so you can save your boss an hour and 57 minutes. Duh.