Oh, we all remember starting our first job, then ripping open our first paycheck while dreaming of all the cool stuff we’re going to buy with the money and then … the inevitable disappointment when you see how much you make after taxes. In this vintage Simpsons clip, Bart gets his first job doing chores for an old lady:
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British songstress Lily Allen is a bona fide celebrity, meaning she would seem to have an entourage, a nice pad, and expensive toys like cars and a private jet. But apparently not. She said in a recent interview that she’s broke. “I’ve been hit big time by the credit crunch,” she said. “Actually, I’ve just had to sell my car because I’m so broke. I bought a car last year and that was probably my biggest extravagance. Clothes, too. I’m always buying clothes. I’m completely skint.” She added that, although she just put out a new record and is out on tour right now, she won’t see profits from the album for awhile.
Have people learned nothing from TLC’s Behind the Music episode? God. What about the aftereffects of MC Hammer? If we do not study history we are doomed to repeat it, OK? Pop stars of the world obviously have not been brushing up on their stories of broke musicians past. Let me sum it up as best I can: DO NOT SPEND ALL YOUR FUCKING MONEY. Even if you are super rich and famous and people give you free shit all the time, you should probably hold on to some of your money just in case, oh, I don’t know, you stop being famous or develop a drug habit or there’s a world economic crisis or something. And if you do act like a bonehead and spend all your money, try not to give interviews encouraging people to feel sorry for you, because if they’re anything like me they will have just lost their jobs and are trying to figure out how to get by and will actually hate you instead of feel bad and send you pennies in the mail.
That advice will be a thousand dollars, please, Ms. Allen. Cash is fine.
“Oh, you hate your job? Why didn’t you say so? There’s a support group for that. It’s called EVERYBODY, and they meet at the bar.”
-The Drew Carey Show
There’s always a distance between a boss and the employees, its just nature’s rule. It’s intimidation mostly. It’s the awareness that they are not me.
Although this interview on Beliefnet is ostensibly about his new film The Music Within, it seems no reporter can talk to Ron Livingston without asking about his role as Peter in Office Space, the movie that launched a thousand disgruntled workers. Here’s what he had to say (interviewer’s question in bold):
I’m a firm believer in leaving the past in the past, but I have to ask about “Office Space.” Why do you think that film still resonates with so many people?
I think the fundamental story of that movie, which is about people trying to find where they fit in life, is just something everybody connects to. And the fact that [director] Mike Judge took it upon himself to make a movie about that without really trying to force a solution down everyone’s throat, and that he could do it in a lighthearted way, makes that movie still relevant to people. They just seem to like it.
We love you, Ron. Call us! Anyone who dumps Carrie Bradshaw on a Post-It will always be tops in our book.
“If you don’t like your job you don’t strike, you just go in every day and do it really half-assed. That’s the American way.”
–Homer Simpson
“I really love having money, because it lets me be lazy. Work is overrated.”– Charlotte Church
As easy as it is to make fun of this comment, work is overrated, and any person who reads this site and says if they had a bajillion dollars they wouldn’t quit their job is lying.
Have you guys seen the show The Fashionista Diaries? Neither of us had seen it, but the advertising image made us imagine Che Guevara rolling in his grave.
Thanks to Radar, we figured out what we (weren’t) missing. Enjoy this liberating quote from one of the show’s interns:
“It’s tough, because they’re making us work, like, long hours, and we have to answer to people,” laments Helene, a slender 24-year old brunette. “Plus, we all worked so hard to get to the top of our fields. Having to do this stuff is like starting over.”
Way to go, Helene! It’s clueless, entitled interns/assistants like you who give the rest of us a bad name. Hope you had a great Labor Day.
We came upon this quote today from poet Khalil Gibran: “Work is love made visible.”
To which we say: “Really? Really?”
Here’s the thing, Khalil. You lived in a world that didn’t know fax machines, the term ‘human resources,’ or video conference calls with the Tokyo office. Back then, ‘work’ had a purer meaning. It was cooking or boat-building or, hell, writing poetry. I’ve never been one of those people who thinks everything was better back in the olden days (because I really enjoy feminism, the internets, and other such modern conveniences), but the meaning of the word ‘work’ has totally changed since you were alive. There’s a reason that artists call what they do their work: because it is spiritually and emotionally meaningful to them. Otherwise, that definition of ‘work’ has largely fallen away.
I’d like to counter with another quote, this one from the philosopher Bertrand Russell: “One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one’s work is terribly important.” Tape that above your boss’ desk.
