Listen to Howard Stern's Tuesday, June 21, 2011 show, he opens with telling Robin (and all of us) he was out of sorts the day before, and his reaction to Keith Olbermann's latest Rolling Stone article.
It's clear the guy has difficulty being an employee, even at the highest level you could imagine being an employee.
I don't have a job nearly as awesome as Howard's but I like what I do, yet I find it really difficult to be an employee at points. Who among us hasn't had to suffer ridiculous embarrassments in the workplace.
Being an employee of the modern day American organization, unless it's your own, is a rough ride even for Olbermann and Stern, and a hearty percentage of the rest of us lucky enough to have jobs in this 'jobless recovery'. A lack luster economy in no small part has to be connected with the general desire not to have to work and put up with all the bullshit.
And so it goes. What does the post corporate workplace look like? Can we figure out ways to deliver goods and services without making everyone miserable? Somewhere there has to be a system that allows us harvest the talents of this great country of people without all of the bureaucracy, adherence to mindless policy, and flat out graft.
These insane wars are part of the problem, a general lack of governance of transactions lends to it, but the worst part of it is the collective misery of a nation who hates what they do but are afraid of winding up poor and without healthcare and dying without resources so we keep working the day job rather than being able to truly follow our passion with conviction. Don't get me wrong, nobody wants to be be a janitor, and we need janitors, but that objection doesn't change the central tent that we have to inject some enthusiam into the mix if we want to return to days of prosperity.
