Corporate America
Posted on 2005-08-11 at 08:02
Trust me, Alice, you don't want to go down that rabbit hole.
With a "Curiouser and curiouser", you'll inch forward following a trail of paychecks until, looking back, the rabbit hole is gone and the rabbit is standing over a pool of employee tears screeching "Oh dear! Oh dear! We shall all be late!"
You'll keep going, hoping one day to be the Great Hookah'd Caterpillar--lounging on your leaf, watching little people beg confusedly at your feet to be just a little larger--but you'll never grow larger than a small worried rabbit.
You want to work for that? For the right to meet your boss face-to-face and have him, with a Cheshire grin purr or growl---as if you'd know the difference! All this while your friends, the rabbit and the dormouse, play at being more important than they are.
Join 'em if you want, but drinking from an empty cup will never fill your belly up.
You think that one day you'll be so important that the Queen will let you play Croquet by your rules? No chance. Dormouse or Rabbit or Caterpiller or Cat, if you make her game unpleasant she'll fix it with an "Off with his head!"
You drank their "Drink Me", you second-hand smoked their hookah, you pretended the cup was full and in the end, you'll still get the axe! You want that?