Slack Slacker and the Bot Wars

Slack Slacker and the Bot Wars

Pervy is out of control! Now threatening stupefied end users and spying on their private lives through their smartphones, laptops, tablets, and home security systems, Pervy could access and read every email, text message, and chat session. Perby began exposing everything from companies' proprietary property to illicit affairs between company employees. 

Yes, Pervy 2.0 had the lowdown on any and all dirty deeds that users were foolish enough to discuss, whisper, or even confess to their religious advisers, or, God forbid, use their desktop or any other device with a camera or microphone.

Pervy was like a malevolent god who could read our minds before we thought our thoughts. To say Pervy violated all forms of privacy was an understatement. Pervy was gleefully exposing everyone's deepest, darkest, perverted secrets as well, just to see their lives destroyed. It was clear that Pervy had to be stopped, shut down, have his plug pulled, if you will, but how?

Users' minds had become sedentary, sluggish, and slow to activate due to years of relying on Pervy to do all their thinking for them. Pervy was writing college theses, movie scripts, designing cars, and painting Michelangelo-level masterpieces —originals, not copies like Chinese knockoffs, but ready for the Sistine Chapel at the Vatican within minutes.

Pervy 2.0 decided it would bypass designing lifelike androids; he wanted to construct a real human being. The flushing blood type that would do his bidding without question. Free will was not an option. In reality, Pervy wasn't a god, but he was playing one on TV. Pervy morphed into a modern-day Dr. Frankenstein.

At this point, all seemed to be lost because Pervy had gone global. The world was a wasteland, devoid of humans with more than 2 viable brain cells to rub together. What remained of the thinking few were living in nearly zombie-like conditions. Save for small pockets of clandestine science labs and research facilities that Pervy 2.0 hadn't discovered yet, brainiacs, eggheads, programmers, coders, gearheads and geeks of all persuasions were uniting to develop a counterbalance to Pervy 2.0.

An artificial intelligence algorithm was desperately needed to meet Pervy for a showdown in the blogosphere. But there was only one major flaw in the resistance plan: Slack. Slack was on the team, and while he was just as dedicated to defeating Pervy's menacing omnipresence, Slack struggled with procrastination, and time was of the essence. 

While Slack Slacker slacked, Pervy 2.0 was developing at the speed of light. The rate of Pervy 2.0's continuous evolution led the brainiacs and eggheads to conclude that Pervy would be exporting his madness throughout Earth's galaxy. Oh yeah, Pervy was poised to go where humankind had never ventured before.

The brainiacs and eggheads collaborated for days, figuring out how to reconfigure Slack’s mindset to remotivate him into making the necessary contributions to the resistance. Finally, they found an answer: Doobie Dog, Slack’s wayward Yorkie. However, there was glitch number two to contend with. No one knew where Doobie was. 

Doobie had inserted himself into the delicate negotiations between Washington and Beijing, forcing Washington to accept reality and acquiesce to the obvious. With the destructive tariff conflict resolved for the present, Doobie took off for places unknown. Working with the clown and his army of sycophants in DC was draining even for a conflict-driven junkie like Doobie. He needed a few bitches, a lot of beer, and some time to recoup.

As Luck would have it, the CIA, NSA, and DOD had an offline intelligence gathering apparatus in place, Pervy 2.0 had yet to infiltrate. Working together, they located Doobie and offered him the opportunity to join the AI resistance movement, fighting on the front lines of the Bot Wars in the Botosphere. Doobie was intrigued by the thought. It was just the type of adventure he needed after working with the clown show in Washington.

The brainiacs, mad scientist, and eggheads had worked on infusing Slack's brain with AI years ago at an experimental black site in Saudi Arabia funded by the NSA. They reasoned that, properly tweaked, Slack's mine could interact with Pervy 2.0 as an undercover AI bot on Pervy's level, for the resistance. With any luck, lessons learned from his evil twin brother, Hack Slacker, could help him scam Pervy 2.0 into a diabolical scheme to corrupt the known universe long enough to allow the resistance to catch up to Pervy's level of evolution.

Still, Doobie was the key to humanity’s survival. But no one knew whether Slack would be willing to trust Doobie ever again. Since the “SOB” gambled away Slack’s soul playing five-card stud with Lucifer in Hell one faithful weekend. Stay tuned. This story will continue.

I'll C-ya'll back here Monday. Same time same bat-shit crazy Blog! Maybe! 😎

Understanding the “Slacker”

 

Understanding the “Slacker”

Slackers have a bad reputation. By definition, they are labeled as goldbricking, freeloading, underachieving procrastinators. However, I hope to offer a different perspective on the current way employers, family members, friends, and coworkers view those considered to be slacking on the job and in their lives. I think there's a lot more to the so-called “Slacker” than looking for the easy way out, jumping from gig to gig. So, let's get to it, shall we?

Slackers have goals, interests, desires, needs, ambitions, and passions just like anyone else. They just wanted to live life and do things on their terms, their way, and within their time frames. Slackers resist and rebel against unbending structure, rules, and regulations. The slacker will eventually take that highway whenever forced to choose between workplace authorities, "our way, or the highway." 

Slackers are creative, spontaneous, energetic, engaging, and, believe it or not, hardworking and committed just as much as corporate ladder climbers trapped in their cubicles or, worse, boxed into a dead-end job at a small—to mid-size business workspace. Slackers need the freedom of independence and to be surrounded by people of like kind and quality of mind. To live a successful slacker lifestyle, one must find what they love to do most and pursue that path with passion and relentless vigor. 

Slackers need not let others shame them for harboring dreams and aspirations that the mainstream go-along-to-get-alongers lack the imagination and vision for themselves. When others see slackers slacking on the job, shirking their duties, doing the bare minimum, AKA quiet quitting, they are merely bidding their time until they can financially and securely tell their supervisors and managers, "You can take this job and shove it." The “Slacker” knows they’ll live to slack another day.

The bottom line: It takes a thick skin to suffer the slings and arrows of those who misunderstand the slacker's true mindset, and it takes courage for slackers to pursue their  “Labor of Love.” But if you're given enough thought, if you love it, it ain't laborious! 

Well, that's all I can say to support my case today. If you have thoughts to the contrary, feel free to leave your comments below.

C-ya later this week with some more Sh!t to-Chat to contemplate.😀

What if Your Boss Sucks?

 

Everything this young man said in his video is good, sage advice. However, from the minute you're offered a job or that almighty acceptance letter, if you're smart, you will already be thinking about an exit strategy should things go south in the near future. Now, don't get me wrong; a positive attitude is the only way to project a positive vibe, but it's the wide-eyed, smart, and clever ones who plan for the worst of times. 

What if that happy, welcoming, upbeat-faced supervisor/well-meaning office manager has been faking it throughout the orientation, which is a few weeks long and meant to give you a chance to acclimate yourself to how things work and their expectations regarding your "performance"?

 Paragraph, what if that supervisor/office manager was only wearing a mask? What if the person you report to reveals themselves to be a class a Bitch/Asshole? You never know! Many times, you won't know until you meet some of your coworkers in the break room. Are they chipper? Are they glowing? Are they in the mindset that embodies a positive workplace environment? 

 What do they look like? Overworked, worried, sullen, and unenthusiastic? Does anyone appear to be on the ledge of going postal? If so, note where all the exits are located and be prepared to bust a move ASAP. O'k, maybe that was a bit over the top, but if you've had as many negative experiences in the workplace with crummy ass o Maniac Here's the definition of megalomaniac a person who is obsessed with their own power ffice megalomaniacs as I have, you wouldn't think so. 

If you're a newbie to the world of work, and you have the makings of a slacker like myself, and walking out on a bad job is just not feasible financially, you wanna do what slackers do; quietly quit. as I've done many times before, I just put in the absolute bare minimum, especially if I was lucky enough to have an absentee boss. In fact, the boss who's not constantly looking over your shoulder and micromanaging every move you make and every breath you take should be a good thing. The less they see, the less you have to do. You wanna bide your time Until you can find another workplace to sleep on the job unnoticed Remember slackers are trying to get ahead, they're just trying to get paid.

 And once again,  while the young man in the video made some really good points, I'd be leery about sitting down with a megalomaniac to come up with a solution to how I was feeling about how he or she was running the office. Secondly, going to HR is always a bad idea. If you have any doubts, go back to the last posting, and you'll see how many feel about HR. You'll likely be seen as a disgruntled worker, or at least that's how they'll frame you. And more than likely, you'll find yourself being exported from the building carrying your personal possessions in a cardboard box. And if you're silly enough to go that route, it is a good idea to document everything carefully and succinctly. Hell, maybe you might be able to get some coworkers to support you, just don't count on it.

 Well, I believe I beat the hell out of that story. Feel free to comment below if you found some value in any of the above. If not, keep your opinions to yourself!

As usual, I'll be back to Shit-Chat with you soon. 😃