Pay rise pay rise fuck fuck fuck yoooouuuuuuuuuuu.

Fundamentally, my boss is not a bad person. But the position he’s in, he’s a prick. I suppose he has to be a prick. But it’s not that he’s a prick, I’d understand that, but he’s an arrogant prick .And that’s ten times worse. Because he’s a prick but he thinks the whole world respects him for it.

There are people my age who have been working in that stupid centra for 3 years. That’s AMAZING. I don’t understand some people. Is there no other way out? Have you run out of escapes and hiding places? Are you content at 18 to scan shit through a machine, have your boss dangle a 1% pay rise in front of you if you just push that little bit harder.

He’s the man, you’ll always get closer to the prize but you’re always working for him. If you took a brick to his window, I’d respect you for it. Capitalism sucks, he had the chance to gain all this power over people before we were even born. We’re like brainwashed little kids, neutered and raised to live by this system, a perfect mould. To fit into it and struggle for it while the people on the top piss away their lives on office chairs, numb and mentally comfortable, immune to any distress. We’re told to become them. We sit through 14 years of school just to BEGIN the process of becoming them. What a shitty way to live.

Well bop bop baby I’ve got a plan, and I’m not sticking around as long as he expects. I’ve been there 7 weeks, I don’t reckon I’ll last more than 10. I’ve taken up a second job at the greyhound track 13 hours a week, that’s 3.5 hours a night. €10.50 per hour plus tips. That’ll handle my rent and food and is my fallback if the plan doesn’t work out. Then I’ll be spending the rest of my time fixing computers with any luck, giving me more time to learn the sax (when I have enough money to buy that sexy saxy in the windy of powells, that’s why I can’t quit for a few weeks!) and not be such an angry bastard all the time because I’m running on this hamster wheel just to get by.

I wish I could destroy the whole thing though. The whole structure. I have all these computer skills I’ve grown up with. What about everyone else? What do they do? They’re still struggling for the prize.

This is a miserable life, Work 7.30am to 4.30pm, and be so tired when I come home that I just eat and go to bed. I hope Mr. Marx was right and that we do eventually evolve into some sort of socialist system where humans are intelligent and responsible enough to accept responsibility and to share the weight of the work and power. But that’s a different rant.

Industrialisation is such a recent concept, and it’s just less severe on people than when it began, but it’s still there, running around the self-evolving wheel. Read up about conditions in English factories when the Industrial Revolution began.

I’m just waiting for the big OFF button. That’s when life gets a lot more interesting. The oil wells dry up and suddenly the hamster wheels can’t turn any more. People have to fend for themselves, they have to live by their own rules and there is no safety net there, no retirement funds, no 9 to 5 bubble wrap job.

There will be chaos and mayhem. And the oil peak is here. Break down the barriers, tear down the oil wells and reclaim our fucking future from the last generations who have raped it from us.