I find myself thinking of the end of Office Space. To have a job where you build something and it’s done and you move on to the next thing would be attractive to me. Which may be why I’m working on furniture and miniatures for my hobbies now.
Bosses that think it is cool to overload people with work & tell them they need to work harder for their annual bonuses just don’t get it. The right way is to work smarter, not harder (longer hours & over weekends)…
When I worked for the paint company, I spelled the company name “OurName Pain” (instead of OurName Pain t) once in a email to a broad distribution list… and in the context of the sentence, it sounded like I was trying to slide in a passive-aggressive comment.
Right there with you. We were working late one night, and it had been a very busy long day. (We may have been a bit punchy at this point.) Now imagine there’s a dude named Bill Sack on a list. 15 minutes later and we’re all still giggling at the remote possibility that his middle name is “Snut”.