Workplace Monotony Quotes

I had a Saturday job in a chemist. The pay was something ridiculous like £2 an hour - it was slave labour - and I spent all day cleaning shelves. On my first day an actress from Eldorado, which was on telly at the time, came in and said, 'Can I have some Replense please?' I didn't know what it was, so I had to ask her and she had to say, 'It's vaginal moisturiser,' in front of a massive queue of people. After one day I was like, 'I don't want to do this job any more, it's just boring.'

A lot of times in our jobs, we go day-to-day, we're in a routine, we sometimes become robots.

Contemporary industrial society is now characterised more than ever by "the need for stupefying work where it is no longer a real necessity."

There's something boring about people who have to go to an office for a living.

Even the coolest jobs get stultifying with repetition, and the only way to break that cycle is to bring another job into the mix.

At the office where the paper grows, she takes a break, drinks another coffee, and she finds it hard to stay awake. It's just another day.

When I watch like The Office I'm fascinated because most of America works in an environment where they see the same eight people every day.

Every job in the world has some built-in boredom. No man can stay excited about something every minute he is doing it. Routine is as necessary to life as water is to beer; it is the base that holds the flavors and spices together.