Tuesday, September 8, 2009

A felicitation to The Internet on Labor Day!


As we often take the time on Labor Day to commemorate human endeavo(u)r, I thought it appropriate to give kudos to one of our colleagues-at-work-and-home: The Internet!

Here are some reasons that makes sense:
  • My salary comes from the Internet (I work for an "Internet company"), and I even pay my damn taxes with it!
  • Many other peoples' salaries (or earnings) come from the Internet, via schemes of different flavors (Phishy or Spammy), and the Internet is an equal-opportunity payer, going all the way from Nigeria to the UK.
  • We don't have full time help, but the Internet does help me with my shopping, and many chores, like paying most of my bills and my scheduling.
  • For every interest I have (soccer), and for every one of a million interests I don't have (sailing, curling, etc.), there's a web site about it, and the Internet can take you there!
  • If my time is worth something (ha!), and I spend half of it on the Internet, The Internet must be really working hard for me. Remember CPU cycles = Busy cycles + Idle cycles
  • I send email and photos to my parents and family on the Internet. I think they'd still prefer that I visited more than once every 2 years, but I blame that on ... my job (the Internet).
  • If you want to not-work, you can do that through the Internet too - it's called YouTube, Facebook or Twitter. If you get caught - the Internet is always there to blame it on. It won't answer in its defense! (but be careful ...if you piss it off, you can get a virus! - or - as Obama says, "it can haunt you later")
  • When my kids ask me a question that I don't know/remember the answer to (getting more frequent these days), I delegate freely - "Ask the Internet"
  • The Internet is also a partner in crime. Download music? Internet! (Not that I would ever consider doing this!) Forgot to pay the bill? Blame the Internet (connection). If you can't find it on the Internet, it does not exist!
  • ...and ...the Internet does not have any of these 10 bad office behaviors!
Long live... our-favorite co-worker ... The Internet!

3 comments:

Martha A. said...

This is awesome!

Unknown said...

The internet is the best invention in the world ... hardly something he can overcome .. if not for this world would live in a very very different ... as our grandparents lived.. without generic viagra

Shafty said...

You are so right about the net not only giving us guys jobs, but i employ about 3 people that also depend on the web

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