The Panda Bear Blog is about a lowly Panda Bear who works
full-time an office and dislikes the fast pace of modern life. The Panda Bear Blog is a blog being part of
the lower percent.
This time of year with the days short becoming short and the
end of the year approaching, the Panda Bear muses on the meaning of life. The end of the year signifies the time
signifies the time that the Panda Bear and Mr. Panda work on home repairs
something that which Panda Bear detests.
Mr. Panda has more vacation time towards the end of the year so they
have more available to work on repairs.
So far they have had some electric work done on their apartment and have
had their heating unit fixed. Now they
must work on getting their bathroom floor fixed so the wood underneath does not
rot.
The Panda Bear tries to congratulate herself on getting these
jobs done. However, positive thinking
only goes so far. The Panda Bear feels
there must be more to life than consumerism.
She feels the powers that be have put her on a capitalist treadmill of
working long and hard so that she can buy the consumer goods and pay for home repairs
which keep the economy growing. The
Panda Bear feels there must be more to life than producing and consuming.
The one good piece of news for the Panda Bear is that she
posted her resume online and some recruiters have contacted her. Readers of the Panda Bear Blog know that the
Panda Bear has gotten bored with her dead-end job where she works in the less
important section of the office. The
workload has increased because of some additional work being taken on by her
section. For the upper management this
extra work means a promotion and title change while for the workers these additional
duties are covered under that catchall section of job descriptions (other responsibilities
as needed) The Panda Bear thinks it may be a long job hunt but at least people
are reading her resume. She knows in
some ways she should be glad she is working but recently she moved to a small
office and she is tired sitting at the same desk all day and seeing the same
faces all the time. America the land of
the longest work hours in the world-is it treason to say one wants to do more
with one’s life than sit at a desk and
work on a computer all day? Of course if
you are like the Panda Bear you will spend a lot of your free time looking at
the computer but it is a completely different matter because it is voluntary.
The Panda Bear wants to join the people’s protest. Though she is terrified of home contractors
she is not afraid to take on the powers that be and tell them that they mistreat
the masses. The Panda Bear wants to be
a nineteen sixties rebel. She thinks
the average people need to confront those in power. The
Panda Bear wants to be a modern hippie. Only
she does not know where to go or what to do.
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