This continues my uncle's diary from here.
The battle against capitalist pigs is going well and we can afford some minor celebrations. The history is somewhat murky but as our glorious system matures the difference between working and not working has increased considerably. Our beloved Party that always tries to balance things out decided to bridge these two states and introduced verk. What is verk? Well, this is an intermediate state and for the most part it is up to the employee to determine how much of not working they include in their verk. More to the point, the main characteristics of verk is that you can verk at home, in the shopping mall or for that matter anywhere else and to verk you no longer have to come to the workplace. Needless to say the program turned out immensely popular and many of us verk a lot!
I started forgetting faces of some of my colleagues, but when I see them once in a while, I notice that they look more rested and happier. Unlike work which by law is limited to 40 hours per week, one can verk for 80 or more hours per week without exerting oneself much. There is not much more getting done this way but everybody looks very busy these days and statistical reports are stellar.
Our former management was not particularly fond of verking and counteracted with an obsolete concept of “face time” - being present and together with your colleagues - but the new management embraced verk wholeheartedly. Quite frankly Ministry of Everything is not doing very well these days and our Command Center is in disarray and infested with a number of comrades who’s qualifications are somewhat lacking. All in all, it is better when everybody is verking rather than coming to work and rolling their eyes or gossiping.
I love verking but sometime I wonder if the capitalist pigs aren’t outsmarting us. They seem to try to get the most out of their employees, rely on their skills, knowledge and initiative and generally behave as if the responsibility for future of the world was in their hands. Comrades laugh that this is a complete nonsense but capitalists are sure making a convincing show!
On top of that the Central Committee occasionally confuses verking with non working and this is potentially dangerous. Our recent example involves an onset of winter and the associated snowfall, periodic and not completely unexpected event given our geographical location. The Party's aversion to snow is legendary and the Central Committee shuts down Ministry of Everything together with the rest of the government at the slightest presence, or even anticipation, of this fluffy substance! Telling people to verk would have been understandable, but closing down entire buildings seem to indicate the lack of trust in common sense of the employees and general stupidity on the part of people empowered to make this kind of decisions.
In this particular instance a snowfall was expected and at four in the morning, hours before the first flakes twirled in the air, and couriers were dispatched to tell comrades to run and hide. Unfortunately, the Botany Unit was hosting three farming teams associated with the program of Underground Farming (described here). One can only imagine the surprise of comrades farmers, weathered and tough folks, when they were confronted by armed guards blocking their entrance to the building because of a paper thin layer of snow on the ground. Nevertheless when all seemed lost our comrades from the Botany Unit stepped up to the plate and saved the day by pitching a large tent serving as a temporary hothouse. They comforted the distressed farmers and exacted from them some amount of actual work which they came to perform!
All in all, we verk hard and I am sure we are beating capitalists left and right but some days I cannot escape the feeling that we are led forward by people who do not quite know what are they doing. But I am ashamed of these thoughts and I punish myself with extra verk!
Continued here.
The battle against capitalist pigs is going well and we can afford some minor celebrations. The history is somewhat murky but as our glorious system matures the difference between working and not working has increased considerably. Our beloved Party that always tries to balance things out decided to bridge these two states and introduced verk. What is verk? Well, this is an intermediate state and for the most part it is up to the employee to determine how much of not working they include in their verk. More to the point, the main characteristics of verk is that you can verk at home, in the shopping mall or for that matter anywhere else and to verk you no longer have to come to the workplace. Needless to say the program turned out immensely popular and many of us verk a lot!
I started forgetting faces of some of my colleagues, but when I see them once in a while, I notice that they look more rested and happier. Unlike work which by law is limited to 40 hours per week, one can verk for 80 or more hours per week without exerting oneself much. There is not much more getting done this way but everybody looks very busy these days and statistical reports are stellar.
Our former management was not particularly fond of verking and counteracted with an obsolete concept of “face time” - being present and together with your colleagues - but the new management embraced verk wholeheartedly. Quite frankly Ministry of Everything is not doing very well these days and our Command Center is in disarray and infested with a number of comrades who’s qualifications are somewhat lacking. All in all, it is better when everybody is verking rather than coming to work and rolling their eyes or gossiping.
I love verking but sometime I wonder if the capitalist pigs aren’t outsmarting us. They seem to try to get the most out of their employees, rely on their skills, knowledge and initiative and generally behave as if the responsibility for future of the world was in their hands. Comrades laugh that this is a complete nonsense but capitalists are sure making a convincing show!
On top of that the Central Committee occasionally confuses verking with non working and this is potentially dangerous. Our recent example involves an onset of winter and the associated snowfall, periodic and not completely unexpected event given our geographical location. The Party's aversion to snow is legendary and the Central Committee shuts down Ministry of Everything together with the rest of the government at the slightest presence, or even anticipation, of this fluffy substance! Telling people to verk would have been understandable, but closing down entire buildings seem to indicate the lack of trust in common sense of the employees and general stupidity on the part of people empowered to make this kind of decisions.
In this particular instance a snowfall was expected and at four in the morning, hours before the first flakes twirled in the air, and couriers were dispatched to tell comrades to run and hide. Unfortunately, the Botany Unit was hosting three farming teams associated with the program of Underground Farming (described here). One can only imagine the surprise of comrades farmers, weathered and tough folks, when they were confronted by armed guards blocking their entrance to the building because of a paper thin layer of snow on the ground. Nevertheless when all seemed lost our comrades from the Botany Unit stepped up to the plate and saved the day by pitching a large tent serving as a temporary hothouse. They comforted the distressed farmers and exacted from them some amount of actual work which they came to perform!
All in all, we verk hard and I am sure we are beating capitalists left and right but some days I cannot escape the feeling that we are led forward by people who do not quite know what are they doing. But I am ashamed of these thoughts and I punish myself with extra verk!
Continued here.
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