office hell

Sasquatch works from home. Her job is to guard our home from looters, thugs, small children and squirrels...mostly squirrels. She despises those little rat bastards, as we've discussed previously. Although normally the gentlest of souls, she can get vicious when confronted with those rodents of the trees. She takes delight in meting out the most horrible tortures but only when she's dealing with squirrels...She practices with Bat!

So Sas never has to deal with the pressures of the office, and in that respect she is a lucky dog indeed...well, in all respects she's a lucky dog, but she might disagree. She believes she should be afforded many more freedoms than she gets, but, sad to say, she cannot be trusted to reliably come back home quickly if she is allowed out by herself. She resents this, but the world is full of predators, as anyone who's spent any time in HELL can tell you.

Yes, Sas is lucky she has no office to deal with. She's also lucky her employer is reasonable and generous. (I prefer to think of myself as employer/companion rather than owner...owner implies a superior position and in no way am I superior to Sasquatch.) There are some who have employers who are less than generous...even stingy! There are some who have employers who think nothing of suspending merit increases even though their employees have surely merited an increase. Oh, they blame it on the economy or unforeseen financial issues, and perhaps those issues come into play, but to fail to reward people who have done their best over the year smacks of a lack of respect for those who really do the work that makes the business go. And to announce it right before the performance appraisal cycle begins adds insult to injury. And so, the office was an especially bad place to be today. But, we can all thank our lucky stars that we have jobs and we are reminded of that daily. And perhaps we are lucky to have jobs, but sometimes I wonder if we are lucky to have the jobs we have.

--Ina