In Which I Am A Lady of Leisure

[Food Lady]

(Offtopic) *takes hat off* You have my utmost respect. Thank you. /offtopic

You beat me to it. Yes, EE, thank you for serving. And on-topic, I often think I'd rather be salaried so I could actually make a budget. As it is, everything's up in the air all the time.

[TonyDonuts]

So don't tell me my military job was "easy work".

Wasn't is somebody in the Big Green Machine who said, "The only easy day was yesterday?"

Indeed.

And now, from the Sucky Customer Dictionary

Easy Job, noun, "Any job that isn't mine."

Really, the guy's job could be standing in a corner, drooling on himself, your job could be going out and dying when somebody tells you to, and your job would still be "easy" because it's not his job.

Like something a little kid would think, really. Aren't we supposed to grow out of that?

[EvilEmpryss]

We had an ASM get mromoted at my old GameStore who absolutely threw a hissyfit when she discovered that they expected her to work FIFTY HOURS A WEEK as the new SM on salary >_> I always figured that 50 would be the low end for any well-salaried position...

I have a nephew who for the longest time refused to accept the store manager position at an R-B's because he didn't want to be put on a salary. He was working 50-70 hours a week as the assistant manager doing everything the manager was supposed to do but he got to rack up the overtime. Eventually the district manager told him that he had to either accept a promotion to district manager or he'd be fired. His hard work had been noticed, and he actually got a decent pay increase out of it. Just goes to show that sometimes hard work does pay off.

And now, from the Sucky Customer Dictionary

Easy Job, noun, "Any job that isn't mine."

Really, the guy's job could be standing in a corner, drooling on himself, your job could be going out and dying when somebody tells you to, and your job would still be "easy" because it's not his job.

That's right up there with "the grass is always greener on the other side of the fence" and "that single person's much more fun than my spouse." Then again, my father always told me that when you're standing in shit up to your eyeballs, all you can see is shit, so anything that isn't the shit you have to deal with on a daily basis has got to be better, right?

[XCashier]

Really, the guy's job could be standing in a corner, drooling on himself, your job could be going out and dying when somebody tells you to, and your job would still be "easy" because it's not his job.

Like something a little kid would think, really. Aren't we supposed to grow out of that?

Exactly. They can't comprehend anything outside of their own experience. Your job could be a coal miner, a soldier deployed to a war zone or cleaning out the Augean Stables with a teaspoon, and they'd scoff and say you had it easy compared to them.