An Easy Job Like That

I overheard that phrase the other day, “Oh I wish I had an easy job like that.” Yes I am guilty of listening to other people’s conversations.  Heck, my hearing is so poor my wife asks me to turn down the TV during the commercial breaks, so when I hear a conversation I consider it an assigned to me by the universe.  I read where the FCC stopped stations from turning up the volume during commercial breaks.  Unfortunately all they did was tune down the program to get around that little technological loophole.  I also read where the FCC was going to tackle that head on and make the law read where programming had to be a consistent volume.  We’ll see.

The conversation I began this posting on was about jobs. There were these three or four young people, (under the age of 30) talking about work and the conditions they had to put up with.  As one bemoaned their boss’s habit to treat them like an idiot. The others would chime in to give their working horror stories in response.  What was interesting to me was how often another’s slights were pale in comparison with their own; the other guy didn’t have anything to complain about because it was easier than their own.

   I remember doing that; when I worked in a competitive environment where scarce resources had to be fought over in monthly meetings.  

We’d go about sabotaging our fellow division’s enterprises with claims that they had it easier where we, on the other hand, were more productive, more essential and had greater obstacles to overcome.  I see that today in the public sector.  Now it’s a contest of who has the worst condition in order to get a lion’s share of funding.  From there I wondered what would be the easiest job of all.  And concluded….it’d be the position that decided which sob story merited my benevolence. 

 Yeah, then it would be like being……king