I know, I know, it’s been a long time since I rapped at cha. And I haven’t done this with the fervor or frequency that I’d hoped, but that’s slowly getting changed.
Here is the week’s posts:
Great Post: Crappy First Job. No job I’ve ever had has been substantially better, so it begs the question: why work at a job at all? Yes, we can make a difference in the ordinary…
A hilariously sick Yahoo Answers about if your son is teh gay.
A video about the post office that you must see to believe. It was once cutting edge. I still love the way that the post office smells.
Finally:
A more serious snippet of an interview on Threadless.
Anyone I linked out to can get a free copy of the book if they review it, good or bad. Anyone else can buy it. I’ll be updating this a little more frequently and a little bit better quite soon. But in the mean time, here we go.
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by chris on April 6, 2009
The people that have lost their jobs so far deserved it. Look around. Most people suck. Most people you work with can barely be counted on to fog a mirror, and we’re supposed to feel sorry for mushy entitled baby boomers because they’ve been dismissed from their bailed out, mushy entitled companies? I don’t think so. We’re at 10% unemployment right now, if that. That means, that the 10% of the most worthless and whining and stupid people currently don’t have jobs. Doesn’t that sound like a situation that would make things better for everyone?
If you were valuable to your company you would have been retained. The face saving B.S. about ‘reducing headcount,’ or ‘ensuring that we can be rightsized’ is just to keep you from taking it personally. But look: superstars are spared. Companies are DESPERATE for a bright light. And if you’re waiting in an unemployment line, you’re not a bright light.
But take heart: you DO NOT HAVE TO STAY A slug. You don’t have to be a clutterpeson. It’s a choice. Here are some questions you gotta ask yourself–and be honest with yourself because it’s probably true.
- Are you relying on your degree for your justification, or your results?
- Are you working smart and hard?
- Are you easy to get along with?
- Do you get your work done early?
- Do you look for more ways to improve?
- Do you connect and help everyone you can?
- Do you uphold a fierce standard of excellence?
If you’re not doing this stuff, and you have no job, it’s your fault. Hard workers have jobs. People looking for jobs have jobs. If you’re just sitting around and bitching about the state of the economy, waiting for a new Obama Bailout Check, then its your fault that you don’t have a job. You probably carried around the do nothing, baby boomer attitude that got you fired in the first case.
Look: we’re only at 10% unemployment. If you’ve been fired, ten you’re in the lowest 10% of results. That should be a wake-up call. You are the problem. Your efforts were miserable. You were missing some boat, and this is not a time to let your EGO talk. You were released because you weren’t particularly valuable. You were released because you were a mess. So –the question is: what are you going to do about it? Are you going to out think, out work, out hustle and out try everyone?
Or are you gonna whine like a four year old on a sugar crash?
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by chris on March 6, 2009
Who Wins This Week's F#@%ing Great Post Award? March 6th, 2009
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It’s time for our weekly F#@%ing Great Post Award. We’ve found the best F#@%ing posts on the Internet. We’re looking for truly original thought, truly different thinking, a healthy dose of joy and attitude in writing, and clearly communicated ideas.
F#@%ing Great Post Award
We’re not looking for above average posts—we’re looking for F#@%ing great ones.
The overall winner gets a free copy of the book F#@% Therapy: Permission to Think Your Own Thoughts.
How to Win a Blogging Award
Simple. Go ahead and submit anything that you’d like to our Award page. We won’t spam you. Much. On Friday we’ll be posting the final nominees, and on the following Monday we announce the winners. The post can only be on this list once—but all nominees also get a F#@%ing Great Post badge.
This Week’s Nominees
- Brazen careerist Penelope Trunk lets us in on the secret of finding your next mentor – be annoying.
- Bre Pettis helped perfect the Cult of Done Manifesto. Well, it’s not really perfect, but it IS done, so there!
- Before you go pointing fingers, you might want to give Chris Brogan’s The Righteous Web a thorough read.
- What happens when reality wakes you up from the dreams you had? Ryan ‘Oktober 5‘ D. Scott sucks it up, looks inward and finds that he was living the wrong dreams all along. So he moves on.
- Seth Godin is sick of dealing with all the damned quick-to-say-no-people in this world. Want to learn how to make your customers happy? Give them more yesses!
- Want to eat lunch with Jenny the Blogess? Would you decline the invite if the topic of conversation involved giant labias? Or would you be more inclined to go?
- Having a birthday party for your child? You probably won’t want to hire Cynical Dad to DJ. His choice of music might get you arrested, or at the very least, on some sort of watch list.
- Looking for a solution to the United State’s economic woes? Jeremy Schoemaker has a suggestion – regulate online gambling!
Now….Nominate a great post for the award next Friday! Vote at the top,
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