I only go to work on days that don't end in a 'y'.

The easiest job in the world has to be coroner. Surgery on dead people. What's the worst thing that could happen? If everything went wrong, maybe you'd get a pulse
Dennis Miller

I only go to work on days that don't end in a 'y'.
Robert Paul

A good rule of thumb is if you've made it to thirty-five and your job still requires you to wear a name tag, you've made a serious vocational error.
Dennis Miller

I like work: it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.
Jerome K Jerome

MIA. Now ponder

Hard work never killed anybody, but why take a chance?
Edgar Bergen

Doing nothing is very hard to do...you never know when you're finished.
Leslie Nielsen

The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
Robert Frost

The trouble with unemployment is that the minute you wake up in the morning you're on the job.
Slappy White

Nietzsche

"The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself" - Friedrich Nietzsche

Think.

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"Work is clearly not healthy for individuals and the products it produces are no longer healthy for the planet.
Yet governments everywhere pursue policies aimed at encouraging more jobs... Despite the dysfuntion of the work ethic it continues to be promoted and praised, accepted and acquiesced to.
It is one of the least challenged aspects of industrial culture."

- Sharon Beder,
Selling the Work Ethic: From Puritan Pulpit to Corporate PR

Commitment Phobia

I worked at this place for 7 years, hoping to get permanent ( "yuh permanent yet?" was a normal greeting was)

When The 'We are glad to offer you a permanent post" letter came instead of my "Your contract has been extended for the next 5 months" letter, I freaked. Did not tell my boss, who has been fighting tooth and nail for my 'permanency'. Forgot the letter and found it in my desk drawer, about 3 weeks later.

I'd had 2 weeks to 'respond', since the two weeks were gone, I told my boss about it. He stood over me, until I signed it, then stamped it 2 weeks earlier, signed it himself, wrote URGENT in his big authoritative print, then called and had it ferried to HR.

14 months later I quit.

Got Cubicle?

We don’t have a lot of time on this earth. We weren’t meant to spend it this way! Human beings were not meant to sit in little cubicles staring at computer screens all day. Filling out forms and listening to eight different bosses drone on about mission statements. – Office Space 1999

There’s no shame in working hard on something satisfying. – like a piece of music, or to help another out of their pain. Maybe ‘work’ is the wrong word for what we’re talking about here – maybe it’s capitalism or office jobs or working-to-pay-for-consuming? Whatever you call it, great resource – Tommy Paine 2008

This time last year

...I was on 'vacation' and making myself miserable with the notion that I had to return to 'work' in 3 days. So I got a tattoo and quit.

"I see all this potential, and I see squandering. God damn it, an entire generation pumping gas, waiting tables—slaves with white collars. Advertising has us chasing cars and clothes, working jobs we hate so we can buy shit we don't need. We're the middle children of history, man. No purpose or place. We have no Great War. No Great Depression. Our Great War's a spiritual war . . . our Great Depression is our lives. We've all been raised on television to believe that one day we'd all be millionaires and movie gods and rock stars. But we won't. And we're slowly learning that fact. And we're very, very pissed off."
—Fight Club, 1999