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It's very hard...very hard indeed... keeping your hopes up and your faith in what you do, when everything and everybody around you says: "Fuck it! It's not worth it!". And now I can't stop of wondering: what is it worth the hard work, the lost neurons, the fatigue, the nervous breakdowns and all that "trying"? What indeed? Is it the money? Not in Romania, it's not! Is it the position? Only if you want (as I was saying in my previous post) more responsibility without benefits! Is it the pride of doing a good job? That is only if you are actually doing a good job.

But let's spend more time on this topic: who and what exactly decides whether you are doing a good job or not in a corporation? On a daily basis, that's easy: either you meet the expected results and make your customer happy, or you don't. So that, at least, it's measurable. But when you're working on a project, and when you're given a certain target, with a certain deadline, which you know it's humanly impossible to reach...what do you do then? You can either say No, refuse the project, get a "Bad Attitude" tag on your forehead, and go on for at least another year in the same position, working at the same crappy daily routine. Or...you can say Yes, and after that be a forever FRUSTRATED little slave on a plantation, who is working his/ hers ass off trying to reach that impossible target during that impossible time frame, knowing that it's well...impossible!!! And you bitch and say that nobody could reach that target, but hey, guess what? Nobody cares! The boss is not interested whether you can or not, he wants this to be done. He wants you to come up with a "out of the box idea"(GOD, HOW I HATE THIS TERM!!!) and become a baby Jesus, making miracles with that project. Obviously, if you do happen to have a great idea, which might move things around, guess who will be the owner of that idea? I need to say no more, right?
So when you will get close to your deadline, and you know that your target will not be met, how can you "fabricate" your figures so that they show what everybody wants to see? Hehehe...Now see, Shakespeare, that is the question! To be honest and show the real result of your project, and obviously get "excommunicated" for that, as it has not reached the target, or to renounce to your principles and "manufacture" the results, so that it would put you in the spotlight and advance in your so-called career?

What do you do...?
Become a little frustrated plantation slave!
Cheers!