Questions:  Everybody has them.  Answers:  Some people have ’em, some don’t, some don’t care.  Personally, I don’t care.  When it comes to questions and answers, I like to take the apathetic approach, which is why I have opinions instead of answers.  A former boss of mine from long ago liked using the phrase learned apathy.  Basically it means the longer you are exposed to something, the more you just don’t care about it.  I guess it’s like the phrase familiarity breeds contempt.  I have a person in my long-ago past who used that term, too.  She was my girlfriend at the time, describing our relationship.

Buh-bye, see yah, I don’t care.

So, what does it all mean?  Well, one of the most idiotic things in our lives is we go to work each day, get paid, and are expected to make a contribution at work in exchange for that paycheck.  For some reason, ownership and management expect to hire you and then you have to uphold your end of the bargain by being smart, conscientious, making important decisions and other ridiculous things.  The workplace is a joke.  We should all just get paid for doing nothing.  After all, this is America, right?  There is nothing wrong with being lazy, unproductive and flat-out stupid while some bloated rich guy pays you a salary. Politicians get away with that every day!

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