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by Spooky23 793 days ago
This is great, but this person is 4/10 on the disgruntled scale.

A truly miserable government worker has a daily countdown to retirement. At extreme levels, down to the hour.

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Was about to leave a similar comment. A lot of this was pretty neutral, some of it heart-warming, and there isn't a lot of evidence of negativity here. And I loved the little illustrations, all in all it felt like someone who took effort to make their environment prettier.
I was going to say, too! This seems absolutely joyful in comparison to my dreary (online) work calendar which just contains the same weekly recurring status meetings with the same people week after week, color coded by project.

It would be cool to have interoperability between calendar software and illustrative art software so modern office workers could create something like this during downtime/boredom!

Mine aren't even color coded - imagine, yours but monochrome :|
I color code mine. Yellow if I’m listed as an optional participant, blue if I’m required.

I don’t attend the yellow ones.

Rather a 0/10. He seems optimistic about Reagan, the US, Israel etc.

Unless you count cheering your measly 5 day vacation as 'disgruntled' I would say he is not disgruntled at all.

Rather a refreshing bit of hopefull and cares?

Maybe not optimistic about Reagan.

> On January 20, 1983 we read “THE HUMP: TWO YEARS OF REAGAN DONE AND TWO MORE TO YEARS GO.” He was of course to be disappointed in this, and Election Day 1984 is colored a somber black. In April 1986, however, the calendars begin a month-by-month countdown: “Thirty-four months of Reagan left!!!”

Ah, true. I only saw some neautral 'Reagan did X'. I didn't read all.
How could you be a human being and not be small D disgruntled?
I'm pretty gruntled myself.
You’re agreeing with me! I said 4/10! Moderate disgruntlement.
The phrase “going postal” was coined for the truly 10/10 disgruntled government employee.