The Point of Exhaustion

There are many demands on the employees of modern companies. Businesses want to stay open 24 hours a day to catch every possible customer, people want to be able to buy whatever they want where ever they are, and managers work feverishly to anticipate the evolving needs of these businesses and consumers. The internet has an eternal memory and time is measured in fractions of seconds. If we want more money, more of our time must be subject to the whim of our employers. Failing to sacrifice our time results in financial punishment. The voracious need for things drives us to work crazy hours and spend much of our remaining time surfing, tweeting, gaming, and staring at the TV. The speed we are expected to move often exceeds the ability to provide a thorough product. This results in a beta version, 1.0, 1.2, 1.3.5, 2.0 and the multiple downloadable (is that a word) patches to the system. The most important product we present is ourselves, yet we fail to get enough sleep, talk to our families at dinner(at the dinner table), and remind people why they are important. Does anyone send a paper invitation or a paper thank you anymore? Welcome to our evite world. If you have time to sleep, you have truly achieved "work-life balance". Now I have to go, I'm at the point of exhaustion, so I'll read CNN on my laptop, download an episode of Spartacus and collapse on a coach in a video coma. See you tomorrow,