living the PGL of a accountant in the fast paced world of the Houston reinsurance scene. Proponent of the 4 day work week and day drinking during lunch breaks at the local Chili's. Weekdays you can find me living the cube life and gettin my sweet fluorescent light tan on and on the weekend you can catch me at the beach or at a local bar calling everyone hipsters who order Moscow mules.
Likes: beer, jeeps, scotch, emotionally unavailable women.
Dislikes:
Will deFries
Usually I’m a staunch Millennial defender but this is some next level bullshit. You get this one tick on us older generations. Can i make the observation this guys parents are probably those tools who actually buy the loaves of crustless bread at the stores cause their little bastard kids don’t like to eat the crust. Or they’re the type of parents that cut their grapes in half before eating them.
Exactly! the other two weeks i just want to remote in with my laptop on my lap and giant bowl of Coco Pebbles while shooting back emails. I really like and am envious of people with a 9/80 schedule. You’re guaranteed two three-day weekends a month or the places that do 1/2 day fridays. Work place is ever changing and certain career fields are facing shortfalls in qualified workers because of the fact that no one really dreams of becoming an accountant or some other corporate slave when they’re kids. You create an appealing corporate environment and culture and study have proved that the environment people work in matters more than their pay. Office Space came out 17 years ago and the conversation that was held with the two Bobs still holds trueIt’s a problem of motivation, all right? Now if I work my ass off and Initech ships a few extra units, I don’t see another dime, so where’s the motivation? And here’s something else, Bob: I have eight different bosses right now……That’s my only real motivation is not to be hassled, that and the fear of losing my job. But you know, Bob, that will only make someone work just hard enough not to get fired.” Peter Gibbon/Ron Livingston is the original millennial
if you work for a public company take the time to find the proxy statement thats handed out to the shareholders during their yearly meeting and you get see all the fringe benefits the C Suite and BoD get and you further realize the level of BS the guy that wrote this article is full off for complaining about letting his employees off from work a little early sometimes.
it was the previous generation that invented participation ribbons. My former boss got bumped up to VP and i was transferred over to another dept. he still walks from his office down to my cube to ask me excel questions even though there are tons of excel modules available through our companies continued education programs. I’m honestly buried under work about 2 weeks a month, most of the month during quarter/year end, the other two weeks i usually have about 2 days of solid work per week. I’ll read and research and try to stay current on topics but it does get boring so i get on my phone and check social media. I have no problem putting in the hours when its required of me and staying late or incredibly late during a shit storm level event but honestly the other two weeks i’d love to just be able to remote in from home or be call. like if things start imploding we can call you in and you can be at your desk in like an hour or two type thing. The whole millennials complaining about social life is just a sign of the times. Previous generations were married way earlier and so the social life, single life, didn’t extend this far into adulthood. By the time you were 30 you’d have your wife, 2.5 kids, house with two car garage. Now if you’re 30 you’d be ahead of the game when it came to having that in your life. Millennials are no worse or better than any generation at this point. We’ve fought wars, suffered through economic uncertainty, and are having to deal with large amounts of personal debt. You cant judge a generation when we are barely coming into our own. To quote the series Smallville “Greatest sin of age is to forget the trials of youth”
you forgot Hairdressers….Redheaded hairdresser named Brandi. You might as well write your eulogy on the bar napkin your whiskey is served on cause that woman would probably be the death of you. But it’d be a hell of a ride like that scene Dr Strangelove where Slim Pickens rides the H bomb.
I’m just waiting for a liberal arts college to announce a course on women’s studies called “Basic Girls: New breed of women for the new millennium” or “Basic Girls: A study of the simultaneous evolution and devolution of women” something like that.
Houston is pretty good. Its like what Austin claims to be, weird, without the artificial hipsterness since houston isnt generally associated too much with the weird vibe Austin likes to cling to.. Its pretty artsy and all the local breweries/distilleries are the tits for brunch. Plus just awesome asian food left and right but traffic sucks….and occasionally people dance naked on top of semitrucks during morning rush hour. #keephoustonweird
yeah Autocockers are equally cool as they are moody. Though with them their QC has also gone down the drain. Find an old Cocker and turn it into a pump and school some kids, plus you can double pump em and tag people with two rounds in chamber sub 10 yards…..ah the memories.
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Usually I’m a staunch Millennial defender but this is some next level bullshit. You get this one tick on us older generations. Can i make the observation this guys parents are probably those tools who actually buy the loaves of crustless bread at the stores cause their little bastard kids don’t like to eat the crust. Or they’re the type of parents that cut their grapes in half before eating them.
TGAG: Meet a adorbs guy named Johnny while visiting ACL.
i ship that now make it happen deFries
Dogs fight terrorist so yeah they deserve to be put on a pedestal above other animals.
aint no such thing as unique snowflakes anymore. we’re all coming from the same crappy can of fake snow that you buy at Walgreens during the holidays.
Exactly! the other two weeks i just want to remote in with my laptop on my lap and giant bowl of Coco Pebbles while shooting back emails. I really like and am envious of people with a 9/80 schedule. You’re guaranteed two three-day weekends a month or the places that do 1/2 day fridays. Work place is ever changing and certain career fields are facing shortfalls in qualified workers because of the fact that no one really dreams of becoming an accountant or some other corporate slave when they’re kids. You create an appealing corporate environment and culture and study have proved that the environment people work in matters more than their pay. Office Space came out 17 years ago and the conversation that was held with the two Bobs still holds trueIt’s a problem of motivation, all right? Now if I work my ass off and Initech ships a few extra units, I don’t see another dime, so where’s the motivation? And here’s something else, Bob: I have eight different bosses right now……That’s my only real motivation is not to be hassled, that and the fear of losing my job. But you know, Bob, that will only make someone work just hard enough not to get fired.” Peter Gibbon/Ron Livingston is the original millennial
Salary is for suckers
if you work for a public company take the time to find the proxy statement thats handed out to the shareholders during their yearly meeting and you get see all the fringe benefits the C Suite and BoD get and you further realize the level of BS the guy that wrote this article is full off for complaining about letting his employees off from work a little early sometimes.
it was the previous generation that invented participation ribbons. My former boss got bumped up to VP and i was transferred over to another dept. he still walks from his office down to my cube to ask me excel questions even though there are tons of excel modules available through our companies continued education programs. I’m honestly buried under work about 2 weeks a month, most of the month during quarter/year end, the other two weeks i usually have about 2 days of solid work per week. I’ll read and research and try to stay current on topics but it does get boring so i get on my phone and check social media. I have no problem putting in the hours when its required of me and staying late or incredibly late during a shit storm level event but honestly the other two weeks i’d love to just be able to remote in from home or be call. like if things start imploding we can call you in and you can be at your desk in like an hour or two type thing. The whole millennials complaining about social life is just a sign of the times. Previous generations were married way earlier and so the social life, single life, didn’t extend this far into adulthood. By the time you were 30 you’d have your wife, 2.5 kids, house with two car garage. Now if you’re 30 you’d be ahead of the game when it came to having that in your life. Millennials are no worse or better than any generation at this point. We’ve fought wars, suffered through economic uncertainty, and are having to deal with large amounts of personal debt. You cant judge a generation when we are barely coming into our own. To quote the series Smallville “Greatest sin of age is to forget the trials of youth”
Just go all Soylent Green on them
The idea of marrying another CPA makes me cringe…but i guess it’d be nice to have a relationship with another functioning alcoholic.
Freebirds>Chipotle so meh
you forgot Hairdressers….Redheaded hairdresser named Brandi. You might as well write your eulogy on the bar napkin your whiskey is served on cause that woman would probably be the death of you. But it’d be a hell of a ride like that scene Dr Strangelove where Slim Pickens rides the H bomb.
Keep ir real right off the bat this morning
I would have guessed Atlantic City
Time to google “Best ways to kill a hot girls cat”……….oh god make sure your search filters are on
TGDAG: Making a Murder-The Todd Story
I’m just waiting for a liberal arts college to announce a course on women’s studies called “Basic Girls: New breed of women for the new millennium” or “Basic Girls: A study of the simultaneous evolution and devolution of women” something like that.
Think the only exception would be the guy who taste tests and does QC for a scotch company.
Houston is pretty good. Its like what Austin claims to be, weird, without the artificial hipsterness since houston isnt generally associated too much with the weird vibe Austin likes to cling to.. Its pretty artsy and all the local breweries/distilleries are the tits for brunch. Plus just awesome asian food left and right but traffic sucks….and occasionally people dance naked on top of semitrucks during morning rush hour. #keephoustonweird
yeah Autocockers are equally cool as they are moody. Though with them their QC has also gone down the drain. Find an old Cocker and turn it into a pump and school some kids, plus you can double pump em and tag people with two rounds in chamber sub 10 yards…..ah the memories.