June 9, 2010
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Exercise
My coworker worked out before work. We push paper and wait on customers. It isn’t strenuous activity. We get paid for that, namely, we get paid for our interpersonal skills and critical thinking. But it seems wholly backward to pay someone else to let you work on their machines, and that work not accomplishing anything but maintenance of muscles. Why not just get a part-time job with manual labor? Granted, the machines work on specific muscles you’re trying to tone and improve, but labor will get rid of fat and tone the muscles that are important for practical considerations.
Backward.
I spoke with my boss, who added to the mix another absurdity: getting unemployment (paid to do no work) and then paying to work at a fitness center. Paid not to work, but paying to work.
