Make no mistake, people: the school that insists upon making eagles run and fish climb trees is intended to create workers for the company that hires a fish to be a swimmer, for swimmers' wages, but expects the fish to climb and run whenever they demand it.. sometimes because they failed to hire any runners, sometimes just to make sure this fish is earning his pay. If the fish feels bad that he can't climb the tree that he has to climb every friday, all the better as the Managers see it. They want the fish to 'know his place' and not try for anything better or ask for anything more. If the budget doesn't allow for enough flyers, they can always try picking up the fish and throwing it, telling it how grateful they are that it's a team player. (Their gratitude has no monetary value, but they use it sparingly anyway, just in case.)
I work for a company that would rather everyone do any given procedure the same way, even if the method was chosen arbitrarily and without any real-world testing and doesn't actually work, rather than letting people do things their own way and possibly thereby figure out a better way. (I'm amazed we haven't been displaced yet by a up-from-the-roots crowdsourcing does-everything-the-opposite competitor, but efficiency and actually treating people right doesn't have a level playing field against already-successful-and-pushy. not on this playing field, anyway.)
I work as hard as I can at my job, and it is only-to-be-expected. When I find a way to work a little faster, push a littler harder, they just ask for more, and more after that. I always meet expectations but I never exceed expectations, because they don't really have expectations, they just want every drop of blood and sweat they can get from me.

Day 3 of NaNoWriMo, day after Election Day. Once I found out who and what won*, I was too angry to write the Glory story I slogged through yesterday. So I switched and did 1905 words of my unfinished Chicagoplex story, which was easier, more planned out, more anticipated (technically), more violent, and altogether more 'Sally'. Not sure which one I'll do tonight. Finish the short story? or save it for 'angry' nights? probably I won't have much time tonight, so easier might be the way to go.
*Stupid won. The Smart and Gives a D# Party decided to fight fair** this year, knowing the zombies would not. When asked why she didn't carry a single county in the whole state, S&GDm gubernatorial candidate said, "Well, I was an incumbent (in another position) and I was a S&GDm." Isn't that like an NFL quarterback saying, "Yeah, we lost the game, but I'm with the Green Bay Packers, and everyone knows we suck." ?
I'm getting really tired of political flunkies just saying stuff that wouldn't slide by on wikipedia, and huge masses of people just believing it without consulting even a dictionary.
**by which I meant "clean elections" rules, but I've since read in old newspapers that the certain factions within the party went for mean-meany negative campaigning that only cost them goodwill...against the independent candidate, sparing nary a speck of mud for the candidate who wound up actually winning. Somedays, I wonder if they even want to win, or even remember that their intention had been to drain the proverbial swamp.