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[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Remember that Sisyphus was a monster that killed people that he invited into his court. We are not Sisyphus, and we should not share his punishment.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

Prometheus.

The Romans/Greek gods were as shitty as gods usually are. Sisyphus wasn't so much punished for his crimes as he was for being a smartass to the gods. Sisyphus literally stopped everyone on Earth from dying, and because Ares the God of War complained that wars were no longer fun because no one died, it was undone. The claim that Sysiphus suffered his punishment because of how he toyed with people's lives is gaslighting, the gods did that all the time. Sysiphus' biggest crime was not being another god.

We do not share his punishment because thankfully because gods are fiction. Unfortunately, there's no shortage of Sysiphuses or enemies of Sysiphuses with the same or more power that would either act the same or worse.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 10 hours ago

Still looks ripped under that shirt. Let him sit there for a few years and see how that changes!

[–] [email protected] 22 points 10 hours ago

One must imagine Sisyphus dead inside.

[–] [email protected] 55 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

He should have kept working in the office naked.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 12 hours ago (4 children)

the issue with giving someone eternal office work as a punishment is that you cant have them fired without ending the eternal office work, and being dead presumably they cant starve to death, so if they just start slacking off and ignoring their "job", what are you gonna do?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 hours ago

That's the whole point of Sisyphus. He could stop at literally any time, he could slack off. No one forces him, except by virtue of the fact that there's nothing else for him to do. That friction between "I don't want to do this anymore, it's pointless" and "but doing nothing is more miserable" is one of the biggest absurdities in the myth.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Same thing you do when they stop pushing that rock. Force them.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 hours ago

Watch me fuck up these Excel numbers and projections for the next 6 quarters.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 hours ago

Have you not heard of "fluffy fingers"? Its what HR represenatives do in offices to enslaved employees. It's when you tie the employee up with handcuffs and ropes, and tickle their feet for their whole lunch break.

.......not that I ever got fired from my job of HR representitive for inappropriate behavior......

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Have you watched the show Severance? Excellent dive into that question and more.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 hours ago

Never heard of it to be honest

[–] [email protected] 15 points 12 hours ago

This hits too close to home.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 11 hours ago

This hurts. I need to think about what I'm doing for a living.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 hours ago

Put him on telephone support for QVC/Home Shopping Network