"I have a big, meaningless stack of paperwork that I have to get off my desk to make room for tomorrow's big, meaningless stack of paperwork. But it's all worth it, you know, cause at least I know I'm making the world a...place."
— Marshall Eriksen, How I Met Your Mother, "Garbage Island"
"This is crazy! People are tired, weary, bored, and depressed after a hard day’s work, day in and day out, year after year and endless dead-end job after endless dead-end job with no future and no hope… that’s natural! It’s completely appropriate to feel that way! How else should you feel? If you felt GOOD after that soul-crunching experience, THAT would be sick! Chronic Cubicle Syndrome is just life!"
— Dilbert, Dilbert, "The Fact"
"My job consists of basically masking my contempt for the assholes in charge, and, at least once a day, retiring to the men's room so I can jerk off while I fantasize about a life that doesn't so closely resemble Hell.""
—Lester Burnham, American Beauty
Loki: I'm gonna burn this place to the ground.
Mobius: I'll show you where my desk is, you can start there.
Mobius: I'll show you where my desk is, you can start there.
— Loki, "Glorious Purpose"
Working 9 to 5, what a way to make a living
Barely gettin' by, it's all taking and no giving
They just use your mind and they never give you credit
It's enough to drive you crazy if you let it
Barely gettin' by, it's all taking and no giving
They just use your mind and they never give you credit
It's enough to drive you crazy if you let it
— Dolly Parton, "9 to 5"
"You think your job is bad? Well... your job is bad."
— Grady, Aperture Desk Job
A Scorned Diplomat
This posting was supposed to be a stepping stone. Instead it became a career, and eventually a trap. Your agents have seized on his resentments.
"You want to shadow me?
I work twelve plus hours a day. And during my free time, I cry in my one-bedroom enclosure, while eating ice screams in my lonely single-size bed, while wondering why I didn’t decide to go to the city and live my dreams as a concert pianist – but I remember why, and it’s because of this crippling carpal tunnel that I got from doing all this damn paperwork in this endless, suffocating, soul-crushing dead-end job! You wanna watch that? Up close? Of your own volition?!"
I work twelve plus hours a day. And during my free time, I cry in my one-bedroom enclosure, while eating ice screams in my lonely single-size bed, while wondering why I didn’t decide to go to the city and live my dreams as a concert pianist – but I remember why, and it’s because of this crippling carpal tunnel that I got from doing all this damn paperwork in this endless, suffocating, soul-crushing dead-end job! You wanna watch that? Up close? Of your own volition?!"— Guild Girl, Goblin Slayer Abridged, to Priestess about her life in the Adventurer's Guild
