Employee Meeting ... Argh

[puckrobin]

You know, the other weekend I started to write a relatively upbeat blog entry about a classic artist that I met. I don't know how current it still is, but I might write about the experience anyway. Just so not every entry here sounds morose or bitchy.

Yesterday, we had our employee meeting. Employees swayed back and forth in glassy-eyed reverence as warblers in three cities ran rock music through the corporate propaganda sausage machine. That's when I decided.

I'm in a cult.

And as cults go, this work cult is pretty lacklustre. I mean if I were to be in a cult, I'd prefer it to be a Satanic one. They have much better music, funky costumes, psychotropic drugs to take the pain away -- oh, and lots of willing beautiful virgins ready to offer themselves to ugly guys. (At least they seem to on TV. Never could figure out how that works in reality.)

I mean, really, it's a pretty substandard cult that doesn't have a virgin sacrifice.

Oh wait. Damn. I'm the virgin sacrifice, aren't I?

Suddenly cults seem a whole lot less sexy.

Allen

P.S.: I shudder to think about who might visit this entry after a blog search.

Comments

At My Company

[diresquirrel.livejournal.com]

I just got back from an evening where we all got together and complained about the company while discussing how to not make things fall apart, while the company paid for the beer and nachos.

[rusty-armour.livejournal.com]

Your employee meetings sounds a bit like some of the meetings I've been to. While I'm trying to stay awake, or not giggle when some new company catchphrase is being introduced, there are people who sit there looking transfixed. These are the same people who laugh at all the corny jokes and immediately raise their hands to ask questions after presentations. I don't know if it's a cult so much as something the company might be pumping into the air vents. Yes, some kind of mind-control gas that some of us (like a large section of editorial) seem to be immune to...

Anyway...I'd be interested in reading about this artist you met. I think you should write about the experience.