And I'm sitting here, re-reading this to tell me why I'm not walking out the door of my office right now. Yes, I have a kickass salary. Big frakking whoop. Instead of working, I am required to complete some BS corporate "education package" about "upcoming products from marketing" or whatever. Its always like this. We have a retarded parent company(Monster) that keeps making us do this retarded bullshit. They have 4 files we're supposed to read and complete for our internal reviews which download as an unknown octet stream without even a file extension to tell us what to do with them. We have a horrible "time tracking" system we're supposed to use, and the biggest thing is the system automatically changes our passwords every 3 - 12 days at random. We can't even reset them via the web, we have to call the internal helpdesk. Then in the company I'm actually working in, I'm surrounded by smart people but they just seem to consistently make bad technology choices. I'm really getting to the point where I'd rather dig ditches for $5/hour. At least #1) my tools always work(its hard to foul up a shovel), #2) I get fresh air and physical exercise, #3) and at the end of the day I can feel proud of doing something useful with my time, like digging a big hole. At least I can bury myself in that someday.