The Mad Men marathon continues. I’m in Season 6 now, so it will be over soon. Seeing the depiction of ad agency life in the 1960s is depressing. Ditto for what I always heard about banking while young.
In my first banking job right after college, I kept hearing people talk about how they would love to have “banker’s hours” and “work 9 to 5” and enjoy some mythical concept of Wednesday afternoons off. I don’t know about other banks, but at the one I worked for, we worked Monday through Friday from 8:15 am to 5:00, and later if someone’s drawer didn’t balance. Our “banker’s hours” were pretty much the same as those for every office worker everywhere.
When I was off the teller line and in IRAs, and later, accounting, and then cash management, we were in early and out late all the time, depending upon what was going on. There were enviable, cushy, "banker's hours." Not for us, anyway, and especially not at the end of a reporting quarter.
New! With chips! |
One Mad Men episode has the executives lining up to see a doctor to get an energy shot in the butt. In the office, no less. One by one, they pop into an office and drop trousers for a glute shot. Afterward, several were so energized, they were running foot races in the hallway.
The doctor says the shot is a proprietary multivitamin and energy shot that will give them a boost to work through the weekend. The ad folks seem to get stuck pulling a lot of weekends, and the office couches come in handy when the don't get to leave.
In the vitamin in the butt episode, the team is on a
deadline for the Chevy project, and it turns out that office workers trapped in
an office for the weekend on a project with a deadline and half of them on drugs can be funny. There
was even tap dancing by Ken after his shot. He was recently in a car accident
and injured his foot, and broke into a song and dance production with a recitation
of a list of crappy things he’s had to deal with because "it’s my job." Workers everywhere can relate.
Definitely not Reese's. |
Laziness prevents me from dashing out into the night in
search of Reese’s with built-in chips, so instead, it’s the baking cabinet to forage
for something. Anything. Pecans, almonds, craisins, raisins, and milk chocolate
chips are the substitute snack that can be assembled in a pinch with
ingredients usually on hand. Maybe tomorrow I’ll get look for the latest new
thing. Or maybe, with luck, I’ll forget about the candy after tonight’s heavy rotation
of boring pharmaceutical ads.
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