slave revolt

the peons are grumbling... they are not happy!

if you'll recall, earlier i mentioned that my office was on the move! it's officially moving from "down the street" to "hell far away" from my house... for almost the last year, i've been pampered with the fact that i can drive to work in oh say 5-8 minutes. now, i'm going to have to fight my way through the worst traffic east of the city to get to work - the new office is located at hwys 404 & 7... so there are approximately 4 of the shittiest option in history for me getting to work:

1. fight along the 401 to the 404 and head north - yeah right! like that's going to happen. meadowvale to kennedy is a god-awful mess and let's not even begin to discuss the 401/404 interchange.
2. take the 407 - a) tool (typo but i'm sticking with it) highway... the open road is like somebody's soul, man! you can't charge for it! and b) just because you have to pay to get on it does not guarantee in any way shape or form that it will be devoid of inexplicable traffic snarls during rush hour.
3. steeles - one-lane, traffic lights a plenty, and guess what? about a billion other people had the same idea.
4. hwy 7 - only one-lane for some stretches buuutttttt... think of all the frigging traffic lights! and the chinese drivers!

and i don't even really want to think about it because it's always worse than the morning commute but coming home at night is going to be oh so much worse... why is that? why is traffic coming home always more intense than traffic going to work? it's like people all leave at a different time in the morning but they all opt to come home at the exact same time! stupid.

and that's not even what the grumblings at the office are about... at the new place, we'll all be delegated a "workspace" in an "open concept" type office... and you don't even get to be walled off on 3 sides! you get a nice little area THAT YOU HAVE TO SHARE WITH ANOTHER PERSON!

people are up in arms over this... the people here are not accustom to not having an office with walls and a door nor are they accustom to having to interact with others on a continual basis. and now they're stuck wonder what they're going to do with all the shit that's packed into their offices and how they're going to keep private calls private. whoever gets the exciting job of assigning the seating arrangements is going to have a heck of a time trying to figure out pairs of people that will be able to stand each other for more than a couple of hours...

and the noise! these people are NOT quite talkers. forget about the frequent arguments, the normal discussions are about 200,00 decibels. i swear, worse than a chinese resturaunt. and then we're all out in the open and say more than 2 people are talking? concentration is not going to be easy.

le sigh... let the adventure begin!