Funny and true. I'm adding this site to my daily reads.

"When the boss from the company that's taking over our company came in and gave the "Hello I Am Friendly!!"? speech which I've heard on several occasions before (seeing as every company I've ever worked for has been bought out by somebody), he described himself as an “insecure overachiever� and I realized this was the phrase I'd been seeking to describe my company. We make dumb little web banners but have to pretend like what we're doing is Important, and Respected, and Innovative, and we must be Passionate, and we must Bleed For* this company, and I'm all: Hold the horse, my friends, I just finished up writing some copy about hemorrhoid ointment. Perhaps it's time we dialed down the self-importance, gentle sirs, what say you.

I mean, what's wrong with treating something as a day job? Day jobs are perfectly respectable. We're all here to make rent money by tricking people into buying things, right, so why try to elevate it? Is it because you've been forced to admit that you're never going to be a writer or painter or CEO because you're not good enough and anyway now you have to fake-tan your disappointed spouse and be emotionally supportive of your ever-growing brood of white gangstas and so a) you need lots of cash and b) you'd rather work long hours than go home to that, and c) you need to pretend that making web banners is somehow meaningful or else the weight of a lifetime of failure and shame will crush you right to death? Yes of course it is! Ahaha I figured it out."

The House of Wigs #45

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