Think of how the podiatrist feels
September 5th, 2007 2:44 pm
Not much to write today. Been swamped at work. And I’m only swamped because other people are lazy and/or also swamped.
I’m doing shit that I don’t know how to do and that I’m not qualified to do. So, why am I doing it? Because the company is too cheap to hire extra help and those that should be doing it are already too busy.
Seriously, that’s how this company works. Everyone is working 60 hour weeks every week and working outside of their knowledge base.
It isn’t that I don’t want to learn new things, it’s just that I wanted my professional career to head in one direction. Now, thanks to this job, it’s heading in a million different directions. None of which I’m happy about.
Let me put it this way. It’s like a podiatrist being asked to preform a colonoscopy. Sure, he’s a doctor, maybe he could do it. But the podiatrist wanted to work with feet, he didn’t want to spend 12 hours a day digging around in someone’s ass.
Surely you can understand his problem, yeah?
He’s walking around with his foot up his ass?
No, Scott. He doesn’t like ass.
Jesus pay attention.
You lost me at digging and ass. I really don’t see where the problem lies after that analogy.
OMG
Maybe spaghetti and meatball, if you’re more comfortable with that analogy?
HEY YOU DON’T WANT TO BE NO MEATBALL!
Jon Glaser quote:
“No real rhyme or reason. I don’t sit down and try to think of characters or ideas. It usually just kind of happens from whatever I’m doing. This is a bit lengthy a description, but if you’re looking for examples, I was watching the movie “Meatballs”, and there actually is a song in the movie called “Meat Balls”, by Rick Dees, the guy who did ‘Disco Duck’. There is a line in the song that goes something like “When you’re walkin’ down the street, and shufflin’ your feet, you don’t wanna be no meat ball!” I fucking lost it when I heard that. I wish we could attach an audio button or something to this interview so people could hear what that lyric sounds like sung instead of just reading it, it’s hilarious. Anyway, I loved the idea of people sincerely using the word “meatball” in their every day vernacular, as a common insult or put down, and that’s where the idea came from for this scene that I did with Jon Benjamin awhile ago. We were an educational community group that acted out scenes for parents as a way to help them broach certain issues with their teen age kids. I played the father, and Jon played the son, who was neglecting his chores. I ask him why he forgot to take out the garbage again, and then calmly tell him that I think he’s been acting like a real meatball lately. He gets mad and says that he’s not a meatball. I tell him that meatballs don’t forget to take out the garbage three weeks in a row. The scene goes on for a very long time with us saying the word ‘meatball’ as many times as we could. It was as annoying as it sounds.”
Erech is a fucking meatball!