Workplace

We've definitely swallowed alot of the same dust.

We sure did ... back in the day.
I will also try to keep this thread alive since i have endless material at my job.
One time, a manager who was trying to impress everyone with this Big Brains, brought a comedian on one of our team meetings to "improve morale". This actually happened.
Nobody laughed and he bombed very hard.
He had no idea that we get better jokes on our day-to-day reality at work.

Mostly from being tired.

The bible defines work as a gift from God. It doesn't talk about retirement. Where did this concept come from?

Yea man. Sometimes i feel sick of the rat race too... but at 51 probably too young to hang it up.

The bible defines work as a gift from God. It doesn't talk about retirement. Where did this concept come from?

Too young? hahah. Bro, we're old. I'm almost a half a century old too. Never thought i'd reach this age.
When i was 15 (in the early 90s) i used to think the year 2000 was soooo far away.
Now it's way past gone and we're hitting 2025-2030.

And yet I STILL don't have my flying car!

Too young? hahah. Bro, we're old. I'm almost a half a century old too. Never thought i'd reach this age.
When i was 15 (in the early 90s) i used to think the year 2000 was soooo far away.
Now it's way past gone and we're hitting 2025-2030.

I have heard many times that the Bible doesn't speak of retirement.

But there's an interesting passage about the Levites in Numbers: "But at the age of 50, they must retire from their regular service and work no longer." -- Numbers 8:25

I've read that this was because 50 was seen as an age where a person's abilities started to diminish, and the temple duties included things like heavy lifting and good eyesight (inspecting skin diseases, etc.) Without the availability of glasses, many at that age might be less effective at the work that was required.

But the article also notes that this did not mean the person was to stop all work and become useless. Numbers 8:26 says that they were still to "assist their brothers in the tent of meeting in carrying out their duties."

I've personally never seen retirement as, "Stop all work and become an unproductive blob."

Rather, I always saw it as a shift -- a time when someone might have the privilege of choosing what kind of work to take on and how much, instead of feeling it was an obligation -- especially for those who don't have the blessing of a job they enjoy.

Everyone I know who retired never stopped working -- they took on lower-stress part-time jobs and/or increased their time volunteering/doing ministry, which to them, was "for fun", and didn't feel like actual "work" -- even though they were twice as busy as when they had a regular job.

You know what grinds my gears?
When everyone at work says “perfect” to every question, statement or idea.

Hey did you call that customer?
Yes I did.
Perfect.

Why don’t we use this year’s budget to get a few more hires?
Perfect.

How are you?
Good.
Perfect.

Hey geniuses, if everything was “perfect” then we wouldn’t need to do anything now would we?

I firmly believe that with many large companies, it's the caring about what happens that causes the unnecessary stress.

And above all, I don't really give a fart in a whirlwind what anybody else does or how they should do it. That's above my pay grade and I want to keep it there.

There's a lot of 'Hurry up and wait' on a daily basis at work too.

URGENT URGENT URGENT and when you get there ... sit down have a coffee ... chill out bro. What's the rush?

I learned the hard way your coworkers are not your friends