#livin' the dream!

[fenmere]

We want to give some context for "Livin' the Dream!" Because we have some.

The first and last time we've heard that phrase, and we heard it repeatedly every day for two and a half years, was when we worked for an international footwear company headquartered in a small town of rural Western Washington.

This company was an E.S.O.P. or Employ-owned Stock Option Plan. Which is corporate speak for "We want you to believe this is a co-op, but it isn't."

They regularly talked about wanting their employees to "drink the koolaid." And harbored the desire for all of us to make that company our entire life, while at the same time talking about work/life balance.

This was from 2009 to 2012.

We heard "Livin' the Dream!" from a tiny handful of obviously stressed people. But primarily, like 99% of the time, it came from this one bald salesman.

Not that being bald is typically an indicator of anything, but he clipped his remaining hair super short. And he looked good that way. But, it was a low maintenance kind of deal, allowing him to focus on his numbers.

We don't know what's happened to him. We're the ones who burnt out first, as one of the graphic designers. We burnt out due to being autistic and trans and plural and closeted and never meant for any kind of full time job.

Our whole point here is that the one person we knew who said this every single day, was a sales rep for a tiny international company that was trying too hard to grow bigger as fast as possible. If you've worked with and alongside sales reps, you know what this means.

The weirdest, most David Lynchian bullshit we've ever seen pulled in the name of office politics was done by sales reps, because of the pressure they're under.

He wasn't the senior rep, but he was working on it.

2-3 times a day, he'd say he was livin' the dream.

When we first saw this post, we were going to reblog it by adding: "Livin' the Dream!" = "Help, I'm a sales rep. Please kill me. I'm too far gone."

But "Actively daydreaming about swan diving into a wood chipper" explains everything we ever saw in that man's face.

[buggachat]

THIS IS NORMAL I THINK IM A GAMER

[starstruckgentlemencreator]

Amirah Dyme

[clairedelune-13]

Haters: DaViD tOoK aWaY fRoM nCUtI.

Meanwhile, Ncuti Gatwa in David Tennant’s presence:

[ewkpop]

fat happy slug babie

[council-of-beetroot]

¡Kuatro kandelas para mí!

[alackofghosts]

catchin some zzzzs

[isawken]

this is Total Time in Car. train trips don't count. do not count time spent in hotels. if you slept in your car you can put those hours towards your total tho. doesn't matter if you were the one driving or were just a passenger. and put in the tags where you went :)

[iliveforaussiegrit]

Not bad for a number 1 rider, cheers!

[s0ull3ss-p3rs0n]

Arin is an Y/N type character, change my mind.

Like bro doesn't have an elemental power, yet manages to be special due to the form of spinjitzu he ended up creating while learning spinjitzu by himself through observing what the ninja did (which we all tried to do as children), he gets to be trained by Lloyd to become a ninja, he fanboys over the ninja to a level that it becomes an autistic hyperfixation, he keeps representing the fandom with the fanboying, the "Zane" haircut thingy (tfym like half of you didn't try to get one of the character's haircuts as a kid I swear some of you tried), his backstory literally being normal child gets lost in the merge alongside his parents and befriend a cool catgirl mechanic, the list goes on like HE'S THE Y/N OF THE NINJAGO UNIVERSE FIGHT ME

[wombywoo]

ok so I have got my bluesky account to work and I'm trying to actually use it this time 🤙 follow me if you must <3

[tweakerbtch-98]

NYC

[hooked-on-elvis]

Sweet yet menacing.

Just like we like him.

Elvis Presley as Jimmy Tompkins (Deke Rivers) in "Loving You" (1957) – Dir. Hal Kanter · Paramount Pictures.

[starstruckgentlemencreator]

Chelsea Wilde

[blankinspace]

Sooo……I missed Evan’s brithday— 😀🥲

Uhhh as an apology I got some sketch book doodles!

[mama-vaggie]

Hey everyone.

I love you guys but hate doing all these damn dishes. Imagine washing 30 toddler trays every night, all those little nooks and crannies filled with ketchup and cheese sauce and nugget crumbs. Yuck.

You're getting Zoo Pals for every meal until further notice. Don't worry, they're biodegradable.