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After 20 years of proudly wearing my white collar, after ingesting dozens of business success book, after encountering hundreds, if not thousands, of folks like me, stuck somewhere in Cubeland, positioned somewhere on the ladder that spans failure and success, I discovered that the book I really needed hadn’t been written, a book that was honest, funny, and poked well-deserved fun at everything that is life in a corporate world. So, I wrote that book and called it White Collar Warrior.

Wednesday, August 25, 2010

Go home, already. Just looking at you is making me tired

Warriors, at some point, you have to go home.

Despite being worried about how it looks to leave before your boss. And despite the fact that you have an endless list of urgent things to do that will prevent you from being laid off, earn you praise, further your career, save the stock price and perhaps keep the Earth from tumbling into the sun.

Every once in a while, you need to break one of the cardinal rules of White Collar Warriors. (That rule? Work today like you might be laid off tomorrow, but your boss hasn’t decided yet.)

If you are exhausted to the point of dizziness. If a third double cap at Starbucks isn’t going to do much for you outside of send you back to the urinal (where you aren’t exactly productive). If a you are trying to string four 5-Hour Energy drinks into a 20-Hour stretch of energy. (Don’t do that, BTW.)

Then go, the fuck, home. Come back tomorrow. The cube isn’t going anywhere.

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