Posted by Luke in 
I was reading about whining at work a while back now and it hit me. I am a workplace whiner. Did you know that most of us at some time or another have to work? Why do we think that work is such a bad thing? For me at least being a workplace whiner teaches us a very important lesson.
Work is meant to be fun
The advanced levels of brainwashing available (at hand if you will) in most organisational psychology points us to towards ‘coping’ mechanisms at work. Personal freedom is more than likely a myth that is couched around this idea of work being fun. Yet for me it is fun sometimes. However, most of the time it’s not fun… it’s actually a drag. I find the repetitious nature of my job sometimes gets me down. It’s in this propensity that I am apt to whine. Why? I thought work was meant to be fun? Well for the majority of us … it really isn’t fun!
Why isn’t work fun?
The main reason work isn’t fun is because we don’t get the opportunity to express ourselves in the way we would like. That right there is a spiritual matter… another post for another time. For me, most of the time it isn’t fun because of the amount of red tape I have to cut through on a daily basis. Recently I went through hell just to get $193. As of this writing… I still don’t have it. Then I have the students. A blessing and a curse. You want to know more read this.
All of that aside I could make myself have a positive attitude and I could do it… but something inside me shudders at the thought of answering 150 emails in a three day period. Don’t know what it is… 
. I have thought about this a lot and I would have to say that work isn’t fun because we aren’t serving ourselves but our master employer.
Work is a paid slavery arrangement. I am sure that someone is likely to read this one day (perhaps) and say that work doesn’t have to be a paid slavery arrangement but in reality most people I have met, this is precisely what work is. A paid slavery arrangement. However, at least it isn’t slavery slavery. I think that we have it a lot better… yet the question remains what makes us so unhappy?
Work… don’t get me started
The problem is that we live in a society where you have to work to eat. I know, “you don’t work you don’t eat.” That’s just it isn’t it. If you don’t work… you don’t eat. You wind up amongst the fractured of society living on the scraps of the mainstream. You just can’t get past it. No matter where you go, you have to work. In some parts of the world you work, and you still don’t eat! What a horrible place this world can be.
I would hate to leave you with a downer but I am yet to read a post, magazine article, book or anything else that tells me otherwise. Having said all that… whining doesn’t make me feel any better does it? It makes me feel a helluvalot worse. So should we whinge or seek personal change? Probably the latter… though unfortunately I spend to much time doing the former!
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