I'm sitting here testing a VBA coded Excel spreadsheet.  As I'm testing, I'm wondering how the hell any of this is going to be ready in 10 days.  I'm also shaking my head at how ridiculous my job is.  I am the "Conversion Manager" by title; this means that I handle new, incoming accounts that sign up for this particular software service.  The manager portion of the title is also quite laughable.  I don't manage anyone.

Nor do I do anything else that is described in my job title.

This isn't necessarily a problem for me, because I enjoy most of what I do.  But it begs the question:  Whose job am I doing, and why are they getting paid more money than me for not doing it?  And yeah, I know, "Oh, you should just be happy you have a job!  There are so many people who are unemployed!"  You know what?  Fuck you.  If I wanna bitch about the incompetence of the human race in a corporate structure, I'm going to fucking do it!

To list all the hats I'm wearing for this next software release:  Business Analyst, Quality Assurance Specialist, Junior Developer, Project Manager, Risk Assessment Consultant....

The reason I'm bitching about doing all these different things isn't because I don't like it.  It's actually cool to do this stuff.  It's also cool to be relied upon and to be considered knowledgeable enough to be given these tasks.  What I find irritating is the whole mentality of the corporate structure where apparently a normal work day doesn't even exist anymore; you're expected to be working all the time.

This isn't the case with me, but I can see how very easily I could let it happen if I didn't flatly refuse to even bring my work-issued mobile device home with me. When I leave this office, preferably after 8 hours of work, I'm DONE WORKING.  A lot of people seem to have a large amount of trouble with that concept.

Do you want to know my theory on why obesity is such a problem in America?  It's not because we're lazy and stupid.  It's because everyone is working too fucking hard, and they don't have the TIME to eat correctly and exercise.  They're too busy obsessing over all the e-mails coming in on their Blackberry.

So perhaps the "stupid" part of it is correct after all.

And the reason for this is the reason for all the stupid shit that happens on this planet.  It's the reason why politicians are all liars and don't give two fucks about the average person.  It's the reason why our rights as human beings are being infringed upon by large corporations.  It's the reason we can't have nice things.

Money.

Politicians only care about the people who give them millions of dollars for their campaigns.  The MIAA and the RIAA have billions of dollars, and use those billions of dollars to make sure they get MORE billions of dollars by giving those said politicians billions of dollars so that our rights as people are taken away though the censorship of the Internet and harassment by court orders and subpoenas.  And we can't have nice things because we don't have enough money to afford them.  Ever.  You may as well stop trying.

Oh, and need I mention that the more money you have, the less you have to pay in taxes?  I could talk about how fucked up governments are all day long, but quite honestly I'm already tiring of it.  

Back on the point in topic, everyone is overworked because corporations refuse to hire the appropriate number of people to get a job done.  Why?  Because then they will make more MONEY!  MONEY MONEY MONEY!  Therefore, those that are hired are squeezed for every last will of life they have, pouring every waking moment of their existence into their job, just so they can make ends meet.

Pretty bleak outlook, eh?  Sadly it's not entirely far from the truth.

When I start going off on rants such as these, it's an indication that I've been staring at the same spreadsheet for far too long this morning.