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My yearly performance review. From my cat.

No wonder everyone is quitting their jobs!

K.D. Orlich
4 min readJan 13, 2022
“Thanks for your time today. Let’s get this over with.”

Other than my fiancee the only other life form that I take orders from anymore is the cat. I really thought everything was going well this year but cat really let me have it during a recent performance review. If this is how it's going out there for most workers today, we clearly need more and stronger labor unions. I bust my ass all year for that furry bastard and I never even get a shitty corporate Christmas card much less a break or better hours.

Here it is.

Cat Incorporated Performance Review

Employee name: Old Man

Job Title: Slave

Department: Whatever I need whenever I want it or no one gets an ounce of peace until I do.

Rate the following 1 to 5. 5 being excellent.

Job Knowledge: 1

Comments: This guy is an idiot. I am to be fed four times a day and at best he does it twice. Twice?! What in the Eff is that all about? I remind him of this every day but he never knows what needs to be done and that’s feed me more. He seems to think I want to play with toys or be held or some other BS instead. Nothing could be further from the truth. I am immune to his gaslighting but he…

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K.D. Orlich
K.D. Orlich

Written by K.D. Orlich

It's about to get weird in here.

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