Friday, March 20, 2009

Poor Old Rick

There was an old man named Rick who was too stupid and old to do anything new with his life. He was stuck in a dead end job that went nowhere too. He had served in the army when he was younger, but was kicked out for being too lazy there too. He let a whole platoon get killed because he was too busy trying to impress a woman that was out of his class. He tried harder to be liked than to be respected and that was his downfall.
This story isn't about that though. Its about his downfall creating a new view on life for him. You see, he wanted to die. He had nothing to provide his family for. He barely paid any attention to them anyway. His wife cared about him enough, and she knew that he could not be made to be what he could not become. So he just went to work. Now what happened was that the people that worked there saw how lazy and oafish he was, that they snickered as he walked by thinking he was cared for there. The true fact is that the other employees wanted the boss to fire him. But the boss never fired him, for reasons unknown.
The story starts with Rick coming into work late as usual, thinking that nobody noticed, but everybody did and looked down on him for it. Here's what really annoyed the workers. What Rick would do in 7 hours time, anybody else there could do in 2 hours time. Now this really makes the workers look bad, because if they would hire and keep someone who is so worthless, what makes them think that there could ever be a pay raise or that the company would last so long.
Rick would come in and sit down, drink his coffee and look busy for an hour, thinking he did a good job. After a while, he would push a few pieces of paper around his area to make it look like he had done something. So he worked harder at looking like he worked hard than actually working hard.
Once he had drank his coffee, he grabbed his keys and started his driving route. But here is a tough part for him. To drive a 2 hour route, he takes 3 hours so he can not be in the office and get paid for it. While everyone else is rushing to get work done, this jackass lazily takes his time. Its obvious he doesn't belong at the job where hard working people are.
Once he gets back to the office, Rick goes to the bathroom as soon as he drops off what he picked up. This is like clockwork for him. He goes there and spends 30 minutes walking around talking on his phone to unimportant people.
Well its almost closing time for the office, so Rick grabs a coffee pot and goes to wash it, taking another 30 minutes. He's done for the day. He sits at his area, staring blankly at a non existent life filled with no hopes and no dreams which he might have had before they crushed his soul. The only thing he can really look forward to is death since that is the only way his pain can go away.

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