So yeah, I confirmed my
resignation from my job today. Man, that job sucked. Let me tell you
about it !
So, I was working at
this call-center of this big research institute which I won't name
and which doesn't really exist, because I don't know if they could
sue me. Basically, I had to call up people and nag them so I could
get them to waste thirty minutes (they'll tell you it's ten-fifteen
minutes. They lie. Or would, if they were not just figments of my
imagination) so some (imaginary) big-shots can make a few (imaginary)
millions, and I make nine euros twenty-one cents an hour
(approximatively, if this call-center would exist, which it does not,
this is fiction !). So what's so bad about that, you ask ? Let me
tell you !
So, assuming (and I'll
stop pointing it out, it gets annoying), all this imaginary stuff
where true, what's so terrible about it ? Well, the thing is, you're
not just making some rich people richer (which you do basically
everywhere), but you're actually making them richer by allowing them
to de-humanize the provider-client relationship further and further,
saving time and money but limiting the possibility for human contact
in everyday life more and more.
I think that's pretty
bad. They asked me to give them the reason for my resignation, so I
wrote them an imaginary e-mail :
from
: Z. King's e-mail sent : 12:11 PM, 06.11.2013
to
: imaginary hr from call-center
Dear
HR team
I
hereby confirm my resignation from my imaginary job, where I was
working at the call-center.
Regarding
the reason of said resignation, even though I have worked on
construction sites before where I spent my days carrying heavy loads,
and as a cleaner scrubbing floors all day, I have never had to do
something in my 26 years of life that has left me with such a
soul-crushing feeling of emptiness and misery as working as a caller
in your call-center, and I'd rather live in the street than go back
there. The only purposes of my work was to make the world a little
colder, and I can neither endorse nor participate in such a task.
Sincerly
Z.
King
(Ex-)
employee n° *****
I hope who ever read it
got the Beatles-reference.
