Work is...

Let the person who has insight calculate the number of the beast, for it is the number of a man. That number is 666.
--Revelation 13:18

But the beast was captured, and with it the false prophet who had performed the signs on its behalf. With these signs he had deluded those who had received the mark of the beast and worshiped its image. The two of them were thrown alive into the fiery lake of burning sulfur.
--Revelation 19:20 (NIV)

At the industrial site where I work, there is a sulfuric acid plant. The first step of sulfuric acid production is to burn sulfur. That sounds pretty horrible, but the vast majority of the product of combustion is converted to sulfuric acid; only a little bit is emitted into the air.

When I've read Revelation in the Bible since I started working at this plant, the parts about the lake of burning sulfur always remind me of work. While we don't have a lake of burning sulfur there, we do have a pit of molten sulfur, and the sulfur gets pumped out of the pit to a furnace where it is burned.

Now I'm involved in a project involving a bunch of the plant's motors. This includes connecting them to a modern computerized control system instead of buttons on the control room panel. Every set of on / off switches on this control system needs a tag number, and one of these motors got the tag number HS-666. This motor runs a pump. This pump moves molten sulfur from the sulfur pit to the burner.

Conclusion: work is hell.