Issues Under Fire: T.G.I. Slacker Friday!

Issues Under Fire: T.G.I. Slacker Friday!

Are thoughts of summer days, cool libations and shady trees blurring your vision? Are you having trouble concentrating on your work? Are the people around you beginning to get on your last nerve? Are you finding yourself staring at the clock waiting for the workday to end? Do you experience these feelings often? If you answered yes, don't be alarmed, it just means you could be a closet slacker!

While many feel comfortable bitching about how much they don't like their jobs, few are willing to admit they really don't like any job. It takes a lot of guts to admit work of any kind sucks, because in America, you're suppose to love a hard days work. In America, hard workers are admired. In America, hard workers get ahead in life (or so they say). In America, hard working people who get ahead in life, work on Fridays.

Unfortunately, some of us weren't born with the hardworking gene. Some of us are just born slackers. Lacking ambition and that go-getters spirit, the average slacker just like to chill (a lot). Slackers aren't necessarily bad people, they're just not hard workers. Although many slackers will try to look just like hard workers, they aren't difficult to identify.

The slacker will come in late, take longer lunches and coffee breaks and still leave earlier than the hard worker at the end of the day. The slacker will use up every sick day and personal day available whether needed or not. The slacker, when in the office is rarely at his desks and when out of the office, is impossible to reach by any means of communication. When the slackers eventually show up Monday morning, tanned and hungover, you can bet they're secretly planning a fake migraine for next Friday.

Bottom line: If you work with a slacker or worse, a slacker works for you, you have our eternal sympathies. However, if you're a fellow slacker, you have yourself a bitchin' three day weekend! C-ya Monday. Maybe!

BTW, just below is another episode of Raymond Chandler's Philip Marlowe. Entitled "The Green Flame", a hot redhead, an ambitious ghostwriter and a burning match leaves Marlowe with a case of murder to solve.

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