Work vs. Prison

IN PRISON... you spend the majority of your time in an 8X10 cell.
AT WORK... you spend the majority of your time in a 6X8 cubicle.

IN PRISON... you get three meals a day.
AT WORK... you only get a break for one meal and you have to pay for it.

IN PRISON... you get time off for good behavior.
AT WORK... you get more work for good behavior.

IN PRISON... the guard locks and unlocks all the doors for you.
AT WORK... you must carry around a security card and open all the doors for yourself.

IN PRISON... you can watch TV and play games.
AT WORK... you get fired for watching TV and playing games.

IN PRISON... you get your own toilet.
AT WORK... you have to share with some idiot who pees on the seat.

IN PRISON...they allow your family and friends to visit.
AT WORK...you can't even speak to your family.

IN PRISON... all expenses are paid by the taxpayers with no work required
AT WORK... you get to pay all the expenses to go to work and then they deduct taxes from your salary to pay for prisoners.

IN PRISON... you spend most of your life inside bars wanting to get out.
AT WORK... you spend most of your time wanting to get out and go inside bars.

IN PRISON... you must deal with sadistic wardens.
AT WORK... they are called managers.

So why is it, again, that we work?

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IN Prison: cant have sex with WOMEN AT Work: depending on job, get paid to have sex with women.

I hope this is better than the last batch of shit you gave me. Produced more wood than Ron Jeremy. I don't want you to yell, "Reco!" anymore. Know what you should yell? "Timber!" Yeah, Mr. Fuckin' wood.
 

Accurate for minimum security prisons.

Don't even get me started on the prisons in Norway. They are better than my apartment.

 

So go to prison and let someone else have your job that wont bitch about it.

If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses - Henry Ford
 

is the OP steven cohen trying to justify his potential move behind the bars! must say...he does make a compelling case...and while you are it...in prison...you get to play "prison break" with the upside of enjoying life outside....in work you play "work break" only to end up in another 6 by 8 cubicle..

"A man travels the world over in search of what he needs and returns home to find it." ~George Moore
 

Now.. go get one of those cushy lifer jobs (you know, typical cubicle monkey in a big dead-end company... JCPenney for example- let's say marketing or equally BS job), maybe do 3 hours of actual work a day, pretend to pay attention during a meeting, BS with coworkers and say you're "brainstorming" for "synergy", screw around on tumblr, refuse to bother with anything after 4 PM, leave at 5. You don't like to actually do work? There's plenty of jobs for you, the government has several million and that's just one employer.

At work: 40 hours a week. In jail: 168 hours a week.

 

It's like when Adrian Peterson called the NFL modern day slavery. Prison/slavery is people more powerful than you deciding to take away your freedom. Work is you deciding to sell your freedom temporarily every day in exchange for money. No, these things are not alike. I'm pretty sure prisoners don't get to decide if they're going to have Chipotle or pizza for lunch.

 

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