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INCOMING! GET TO YOUR FOXHOLES NOW MAGGOTS!!!!!!!
Oh yeah, and don't forget to work extra overtime for me. Thanks for doing multiple peoples jobs. This is a real concern. I know the work to live website I consider it the 2nd most important issue in any political campaign right now. Funny how nobody is talking about it on the campaign trail. Guess it's just a non-starter

Are either of you really trying to say you have it that rough really???

Maybe I am jaded because I work for such a large company and all but seriously the examples they provide in that article are hardcore to the point that I wonder about the people who would deal with those conditions for that amount of time and their sanity in the first place.

My job is *DAMN* stressfull. I know 2 people in my division who killed themselves while at work by jumping off Tribune Tower if that tells you something. I think if I got to the point of wanting to lobby congress over it or take perscription medicine over it I would quit or be actively looking for another job.

As an aside. My benefits for working in this high stress environment are damn good which might be why I feel the way I do about this whole thing.... I have a high school education. Make more than most people I know who went to college. I get 3 weeks paid vacation(4 soon), 4 personal days, 5 sick days, paid bereavement time, 5k towards lawyer fees if I decide to adopt a child, blue cross ppo medical, dental, 401k match up to 4% of my pay, 15% discount on buying company stock if I hold it for 2 years, 8-12% of my pay a year in prefered stock..... There is more I cannot think of but as I said this may be why I think these people are nuts.

Jump dat ass froom the backside, son!

Yeah kid!

i think if you polled anyone at any time, 80 percent of those polled would tell you they want a new job. or if you polled one man, 80 percent of him would want something else. it's the american way to want better. if it wasn't bred into us, we couldn't exist as a capitalist society and would, instead, turn into france. of course they get 3 hour lunches, a month of free vacation and all the wine they could drink at lunch. that being said, i lived next to a bridge in paris that took over 6 months to be painted and every frenchman would drink his own bottle of wine at lunch from what i remember. i don't think surge suppressors would bother me as much if i could take a 3 hour lunch, drink wine and take naps and disappear during the summer to hang on the cote d'azur. maybe i wouldn't have to take those damn anti-depressants and anxiety pills to help me get through the fucking day because i spend all day in meetings learning about the best order to put bullet points on a box should be. in paris, i wouldn't even have to pick up oliver's poop.

air france, take me away!

oh yeah and sometimes i sit at my desk after an especially awful day and start to hyperventilate because i worry that this is what my life will be forever and how i used to be able to watch tv at my desk and call up people at mtv and they would send me videos by bike messenger because i was that important and now i just copy and paste spec charts onto microsoft word and pass that to a designer and if i take initiative i get yelled at and everyone i work with is married and has kids and a big mortgage in tinley park and that's my nightmare and i'm not making enough to just leave and take time off but i can't stay too long because i could become one of them and i spent all that money on a prissy school so i could get a good education and now i work for people who don't even know how to check email or the internet and i'm totally going to end up unhappy like my parents because i'm really unhappy now. then i take a pill and i don't freak out as much. can't afford to quit, can afford pills. yay for modern society.

so my point is this... keester, you want to get me a job at the trib's entertainment section? i promise i will stop complaining once i get to write about tv again.

Hit tribune.com and see whats available.

If you see something of interest apply for it and let me know. I can write the HR rep hiring the job and say your the neatest thing since sliced bread but that is the extent of my pull in the editorial end of things around here.