{"id":55689,"date":"2014-06-15T10:27:41","date_gmt":"2014-06-15T18:27:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=55689"},"modified":"2014-06-15T10:27:41","modified_gmt":"2014-06-15T18:27:41","slug":"unemployment-and-middle-aged-men","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=55689","title":{"rendered":"Unemployment and Middle Aged Men"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Barry emails: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Employment for curmudgeonly middle aged males is a real problem in this day and age.  Especially if you have fallen out of the career ladder or were never much part of it in the first place.<\/p>\n<p>It is a huge problem if you don&#8217;t like being micro managed, dealing with the public or having to work with women. The office I used to work in is typical. Two gay men.  Five bitchy women.  A craven male boss who hides in his office. And me.<\/p>\n<p>It is worse if you end up working for cowardly male bosses who can&#8217;t control the women in their office. Often these cowards need to put a layer between themselves and the bitches who won&#8217;t raise a finger and take lots of time off.<\/p>\n<p>So I get hired at cheap freelance rates to do the work the women on staff can&#8217;t be bothered doing. But I have another role &#8211; the bosses bullet stopper.<\/p>\n<p>Because the moment I arrive I am now the target of the hatred of five women who feel threatened.  The gamesmanship, the office politics, the pressure. You wouldn&#8217;t believe it Luke.  There isn&#8217;t even a honeymoon period! Pure hatred from day one.<\/p>\n<p>Pressure is when there is a lot to do at high speed. It can be very energising.  But stress is a killer.  And women love dishing it outl Stress can happen in the quietest most unproductive, lazy environments &#8211; like this office I ended up in.<\/p>\n<p>I now know how you can turn the most indolent, lazy female into a blur of frenzied activity. Just add the missing ingredient &#8211; malice.  For my presence soon energised these bitches into a  buzzing hive of conspiracy.  Old workplaces and colleagues were contacted. My email and browsing habits habits perused.  They missed nothing.  <\/p>\n<p>The female human relations parasite even invited me in for an informal chat to ask me how I was getting on and why all the women felt &#8220;uncomfortable&#8221; around me.<\/p>\n<p>I lasted ten weeks and one of the woman did a jig in front of my desk when I handed in my notice. How I didn&#8217;t plant one on one of these bitches I&#8217;ll never know.  It was only the thought of the huge financial pay out that they would have received that prevented me.<\/p>\n<p>If you ever get an answer let me know Luke.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Barry emails: Employment for curmudgeonly middle aged males is a real problem in this day and age. Especially if you have fallen out of the career ladder or were never much part of it in the first place. It is &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=55689\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55689","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55689","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=55689"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55689\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55690,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55689\/revisions\/55690"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}