Welcome to the Veal World

I'm sitting here in my veal fattening pen cum cube mulling over how Carly Fiorina managed to get an alleged $70 million raise package after the merger even though she was voted #1 in a survey of CEOs who hurt the brand value of the companies they lead. I was sold to HP in an outsourcing deal and I'm still pretty unhappy about it since I still do the same job I did before only for HP and with nothing really left for me to do anymore. Well, I did make an account last week on one of my 4 remaining servers.

While this may seem like the perfect job to be the lost engineer it's really depressing as I'd rather be doing something interesting with my time but the job market isn't one I'd like to be in at the moment. I wish I had never left academia as though the pay was less than stellar I always had stuff to do and had much the same comfortable standard of living I have now. I realise now more than ever that I have been sucked into the world of Dilbert.

Thanks to your leadership, I've gone from being unmotivated to being inert. I think I'm advancing to the next phase. Hello, rigor mortis!! Take me, I'm ready!!

I just lost the subtle mental connection between my performance and my salary. I get paid the same amount no matter what I do. I can stand here and flick my fingers and still get paid. Do you realize what this means??!

For those of you happy in academia my advice is to stay there.