Workin' for the Man

**Lemur** · 08-18-2011, 21:41

Just got a new, better job, so I'm feeling quite studly. I know lots of folks are unemployed or doing two to six part-time thing-ma-bobs, but this is the real deal. Me so happy. Sorry for anybody who's suffering in the Great Recession, but things is looking up in Casa Lemur. (And my special lady has found a petting zoo where you can manhandle lemurs. Must. Go. Soon.)

Like the song says:

Mid-level manager says he heard about
Some mulatto girl shot him in the mouth
And left him the hotel near the mid-south offices.
He worked in distribution—regional vice-president.

Collapse, unload it, pop! pop!
I must accumulate, unload it,
Pop! Pop! I must accumulate.

Well the soil was rich, competition fat
Ripe and vulnerable, oozing from the slats
And too cash-heavy, bloated, sitting there all puckered up.
Index of numbers is scrolling upscreen, scrolling up.

Smash it down to digits.
Gut it out and break it down.
Liquid assets are Seeping down, seeping down now.
Seeping down, seeping down now.

**Hosakawa Tito** · 08-18-2011, 23:01

Congrats on the new job my friend. Make capitalism work...for you!

**TinCow** · 08-18-2011, 23:05

**Peasant Phill** · 08-18-2011, 23:14

Congratulations with the new job Lemur.
Now it's time to evolve into the local dictator. Delegate my boy, delegate.

**Major Robert Dump** · 08-19-2011, 05:42

Congratulations!

But those people you are replacing are striking for a reason!

**naut** · 08-19-2011, 06:37

Yey about the job Lemur.

But:

Originally Posted by Lemur

(And my special lady has found a petting zoo where you can manhandle lemurs. Must. Go. Soon.)

It is this that I must truly congratulate you on. There is just so much right with this statement.

**Lemur** · 08-19-2011, 15:48

Originally Posted by Major Robert Dump

But those people you are replacing are striking for a reason!

Good one. I'm gonna use that sometime, and not give you credit. 'Cause that's how I roll, yo.

It's actually a full-time copywriting gig, with some other duties thrown in, at a very successful multimedia firm in Chi-town. I get to telecommute, which means I can continue to raise my little lemurs by hand. It's the right job in the right field under the right conditions, which goes a long way toward explaining why I think it's a huge improvement. And the extra money doesn't make me sad neither.