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A disgruntled federal employee's 1980s desk calendar (2018)
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Re: A disgruntled federal employee's 1980s desk calendar (2018)
#32This is great, but this person is 4/10 on the disgruntled scale. A truly miserable government worker has a daily countdown to retirement. At extreme levels, down to the hour.
How could you be a human being and not be small D disgruntled?
Re: A disgruntled federal employee's 1980s desk calendar (2018)
#33Is there a particular reason to believe that the unnamed employee was male? The article refers to them as "he" multiple times and compares them to a monk (traditionally male): > Like a monk, he labored over his document every day, adding carefully crafted letters and elaborate drawings to what became, over nine years, a remarkably full chronicle of the decade.
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Re: A disgruntled federal employee's 1980s desk calendar (2018)
#34This is great, but this person is 4/10 on the disgruntled scale. A truly miserable government worker has a daily countdown to retirement. At extreme levels, down to the hour.
How could you be a human being and not be small D disgruntled?
You’re agreeing with me! I said 4/10! Moderate disgruntlement.
Re: A disgruntled federal employee's 1980s desk calendar (2018)
#35Earlier quoted context omitted.
I was going to say, too! This seems absolutely joyful in comparison to my dreary (online) work calendar which just contains the same weekly recurring status meetings with the same people week after week, color coded by project. It would be cool to have interoperability between calendar software and illustrative art software so modern office workers could create something like this during downtime/boredom!
Mine aren't even color coded - imagine, yours but monochrome :|
I color code mine. Yellow if I’m listed as an optional participant, blue if I’m required.
I don’t attend the yellow ones.
Re: A disgruntled federal employee's 1980s desk calendar (2018)
#36Is there a particular reason to believe that the unnamed employee was male? The article refers to them as "he" multiple times and compares them to a monk (traditionally male): > Like a monk, he labored over his document every day, adding carefully crafted letters and elaborate drawings to what became, over nine years, a remarkably full chronicle of the decade.
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Re: A disgruntled federal employee's 1980s desk calendar (2018)
#37This is great, but this person is 4/10 on the disgruntled scale. A truly miserable government worker has a daily countdown to retirement. At extreme levels, down to the hour.
Rather a 0/10. He seems optimistic about Reagan, the US, Israel etc.
Unless you count cheering your measly 5 day vacation as 'disgruntled' I would say he is not disgruntled at all.
Rather a refreshing bit of hopefull and cares?
Re: A disgruntled federal employee's 1980s desk calendar (2018)
#38He is far from disgruntled. He seems like someone who enjoyed his work and his life. Clickbait article but I guess it worked.
Re: A disgruntled federal employee's 1980s desk calendar (2018)
#39Is there a particular reason to believe that the unnamed employee was male? The article refers to them as "he" multiple times and compares them to a monk (traditionally male): > Like a monk, he labored over his document every day, adding carefully crafted letters and elaborate drawings to what became, over nine years, a remarkably full chronicle of the decade.
“He” comes from the description in the original posting on the rare books site selling these: https://web.archive.org/web/20221205191022/https://bostonrar... - possibly they knew exactly who it was from?
That said, I got a femme vibe off the handwriting too. And the inclusion of cartouches around the lunar phase drawings plus a lovingly illustrated entry for Samhain suggests the artist is a neopagan of some kind, which could be a slight tell for femininity. Maybe. Depends on the coven really. Which they were apparently a part of, the full sales post includes an image with a little pile of coven newsletters, some of which are in “paste-up form” which suggests they were participating in the time honored tradition of using the office copier on the sly.
Re: A disgruntled federal employee's 1980s desk calendar (2018)
#40This is not disgruntled but bored.
Well it already said federal employee, so…