the fact that we only have “herculean task” and “sisyphean task” feels so limiting. so here’s a few more tasks for your repertoire
icarian task: when you have a task you know you’re going to fail at anyways, so why not have some fun with it before it all comes crashing down
cassandrean task: when you have to deal with people you KNOW won’t listen to you, despite having accurate information, and having to watch them fumble about when you told them the solution from the start (most often witnessed in customer service)
feel free to chime in i ran out of ideas much faster than i anticipated
Promethean task: opposite of a Cassandraean task. You have the right information, and SOMEONE has to share it. But it’s all in the delivery and if you’re the person to identify the problem you WILL be hated forever.
Oedipal Task: (1) Attempting to avoid an unspeakably awful outcome and in doing so creating the circumstances that will bring it about. (2) Trying to solve an problem and discovering that you are in fact the problem you are trying to solve.
Odyssean task: you’ll complete it but it’ll take 20 times longer than it should and involve multiple side quests and mini-adventures
Pandorean task: some people fucked around and now it’s your job to make sure they find out
the tracking service for online orders at work keeps glitching and showing the drivers’ location as somewhere off the african coast, so me and my coworkers have developed a ritual of standing in a circle and chanting “banished to the ocean. banished to the ocean.” like evil sorcerers each time we go to accept an order and every time the location tracker shows them lost at sea we high five and cheer
NULL ISLAND
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CAN WE GET SOME APPLAUSE FOR NULL ISLAND
BANISHED TO THE OCEAN!
(It’s 0° N, 0° E, so lots of gps glitches return that point when they fuck up.)
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