So I quit my job yesterday so I could do yours. I mean, I was doing it anyway and decided, hey! Why should I do your job AND my job? Seems like a lot of work. I remember the good old days when I used to just do my job and have other people do their jobs and I could still get in a nap every so often. But with the advent of the internet and those pesky little cost-cutting ideas by the budgeting dept., it seems I'm now doing everybody's job. For free!

When planning a trip, I USED to call my travel agent and she would book the flights, the rental car and the hotel. Now, when I call my travel agent she tells me, "really, if you go on-line you'll get a better price." So I dutifully spend hours at orbitz and travelocity and You've-Been-Had.Com. And Budget rental car. And HamptonInn.com.

I used to have a Realtor who would send me listings, sift through the best, do all the leg work and come by, go over the listing with me, then drive me around to see them. Now my realtor tells me, "Here's the MLS website, go on and check out all the listings and let me know which ones you like. Buh-bye."

I used to have an IT department at work so when one of the 10,000 systems I need to work to do my job goes down, I'd call them and they'd spend hours figuring out the problem then fixing it then giving me the go-ahead. Now when I call my IT dept. they tell me, "We're really busy working on 10,000 system complaints so if you could just go on and do this, press that, print this out, do a couple of jumping jacks and call us back and let us know what happened? maybe we can trouble-shoot it over the phone, do you have speaker phone? Good. Cuz this might take awhile."

I remember when I pulled into the gas station, they used to fill my gas, check under the hood and wash my windows. Now I fill the gas, scrub the windows. And vacuum it out at carwashes.

When my iMac crashed due to one of their uploads I called for help. They kept me on the phone for 2 hours telling me all the things I was supposed to do to make it run again. I was like their long-distance robot, they smoked with their boots up on a desk, somewhere in India while I sweated and swore and ran that disk a 5th time.

My internet connection went down: I called for help. Like Sears & the Termite man they said they could come in 3 weeks between 8-12 or 1-5. "But we both work full time!" I bleeted, sheep like. Surely they must know some people work full time? She just kept asking the same question over & over until she wore me down. I said I'll take the afternoon off from my job: he showed up at 5:30pm.

What next? My house is on fire & the firefighters tell me to hose it down and hope for the best?

I go to my Doctor and he hands me a stethoscope and a tongue depressor and goes out for coffee?

My house is broken into and the police throw me a fingerprint kit and wish me luck?

I go to my favorite upscale restaurant and they hand me an apron and a servers tray to serve myself? [Oh wait a minute, I think that's called a Buffet]

[Post your favorite delegated job that isn't yours here.]

So I quit my job yesterday. I just couldn't keep up the pace and now I can finally just work 40 hours a week....doing your job. For free.