Weekly Meetings, Money Memes and Self-Censoring

Ugghhhhhhhhh.

My department consists of three people and our boss, who doesn’t actually do what we do, but manages like…three to five different departments that are all considered “centralized services” but require completely different skill sets.

We also all work in completely different locations and I’ve only met my boss in person, my other two coworkers I’ve only Skyped and phoned and emailed with.

So we have these weekly meetings to touch base and discuss issues and check in on projects and stuff that could generally be done in casual conversations but, because reasons, requires weekly meetings.

Did I mention that these are Skype meetings? They are.

So.

To be clear, that’s an hour long, video imaging required, screen sharing meeting once a week, ya’ll.

Anyway.

To “make things fun” we’re having themes, and are required to upload memes in keeping with the theme of the week. Since it’s a pay week, the theme is money.

Now. I’m, at my heart, an socialist anti-capitalist queermo who believes in universal basic income, the redistribution of wealth, and, just generally, the idea that people deserve some basic dignity and access to education for simply being alive. I know most of these values are unrealistic for a million and three reasons that, if I had the time, wherewithal, motivation, and attention span, I could probably have the top fifty slots on medium for at least three years. Sadly, I am a moderately depressed slacker with lots of good ideas and no energy with which to expound upon them and no credentials with which to implement them.

I kept finding memes that I wanted to share but felt that, perhaps, they were inappropriate for the workplace. (Although, and I brought this up at last week’s meeting when we decided we were going to be doing this, if you invite memes to a work meeting, you’ve got to be ready to get to know your coworkers a lot better.) So I’m trying to get my yayas out here not sound like I hate my job. I don’t, but I’d also really like to be able to pay my bills and stuff.

This is my favorite. I work for a non-profit, so I know that most of the money is actually going to places I don’t wholly disagree with. But still. Taking home less than $450 a week is rough.