[MichiganMat]

I work at a huge software company, a dream-job for those in the industry, but the culture of the company is a far cry from the perception of it. The majority of the guys I work with are what I would call "The working dead", sorry, lonely, often alcoholic, albiet brilliant, souls who drag themselves to work everyday only to crap all over everyone.

Software work, good software work, is almost like creating art, it quickly becomes "your baby", and IMO every engineer wants to make a good product. It only takes one jerkoff to ruin any excitment you may have. "Yeah, its ok, I guess..." I've been working with these jokers for 4 years now and I've reached my limit, Im ready to move on. There isn't a team at the company that Im interested in working with, not one, just more of the same.

Am I asking too much here? I come from a working-class Union family where you take what you can get and I feel a little guilty about giving up a job just because I don't like the people. Regardless, tomorrow Im going to go my teamates office and tell him he should quit, Im tired of hearing about how much he hates working there. This guy is like a big black cloud, he sullys every good feeling I have about life just by looking at him. If only he wasn't a better engineer than me... {grumble}

Its a big company, but even the guys I eat lunch with have got zero-zip-nodda to say about anything. Zombies!

Is the entire world full of "The working dead"?