 it's not about my current job!
posted by Christopher on 10.3.2004 - 3:28 pm
weird how things come in waves, but just this last week i found out that two people i know who read the strip thought that this was about my current job.
it's not :)
the office parts of Faustian Deal pull from experiences that the real-life Dante and I had while working at a dot-com together from 2000-2002. We didn't start this comic until the company we were working for (which has a name VERY similar to MediaWhore) tanked. dante and i have since gone our separate ways professionally, and we decided not to use anything funny from our current work situations until such a time as we're not working for our current employers anymore.
i'm extremely happy at my job now. the company is in no danger of going under (it's been around 12 or 13 years, and survived the dot com crash of 2001 with a few minor scratches). i certainly don't spend my days playing games anymore, but the job is interesting, i really like my co-workers and i'm treated well.
so please... don't worry... just sit back and laugh at how silly things were at the turn of the milennium!
|
|
 Good God, No!
posted by Dante on 10.4.2004 - 7:42 am
Rather than starting off with something witty, first let me echo my partner's sentiments. This strip, and nothing represented in it, is derived from, representative of, or in any other way meant to imply either of our current employers (or anyone employed thereby). Or let me phrase it more simply, "do you think I want to get fired?" This is all ancient history. Water under the bridge. Bygones. Pick your favorite phrase for things that happened in the past and use it here.
My current job, I am pleased to say is excellent. My boss and my coworkers are talented, qualified, excellent people. I have even started to enjoy computing again. I used to feel that the phrase "find a job doing something you love and you'll never work a day in your life" was tragically flawed. After my last boss and my last job I was convinced that the phrase should be modified to read, "find a job doing something you love, and your job can rob you of one of the loves of your life." Now, maybe I'm willing to admit there might be something to the original wording.
|
