Time Out Tuesday

Someone got me thinking about weekly postings as a way to ensure that Your blog constantly has new content. I thought... why not every day? So I bring you.. Timeout Tuesday!

Each Tuesday, I will write a blog entry that details anywhere from 1 to 5 people I dealt with over the past week that I would like very much to place in the Time Out Box for one offense or another. Since it's the inaugural entry, we'll go with 4.

My boss. The woman. IVF Lady. Facebook. Bailouts.

1) The woman. I will simply call her this, and keep details to a minimum, because I don't want it to be gossip; rather, just a Do Not Do This lesson. There's a boss who just cut his pay by about 15% in order to keep his staff from having to take cuts or get laid off. This Woman is on his staff. Her job description has shrunk significantly since she was hired, but her pay hasn't reflected this.The boss been incredibly lenient with her. She was originally hired as an interim until he found someone to replace the last person in this position, and he hired her as the permanent replacement conditionally upon getting a degree in the field, which he agreed to pay for. She decided to change the degree to a different field without consulting him and became upset when he said the company could no longer pay for the education. She started spreading a lot of lies and drama and generally making trouble for the rest of the staff. She was asked by the boss and the board to resign, and since then it has gone to Hell. Literally. She's got people glaring at the boss and ignoring his wife socially. The chair of the board was accused of drunk driving and arriving drunk to meetings, when he never drinks outside of his own home. She had her youngest son spread it among his friends who have parents that know the boss, etc. I spoke out against her actions, and because my boss is friends with her, my boss chopped my hours, and is now trying to spread rumors about my character and ethics. It's just.... this woman claims to be a Christian example, has a position of leadership inside the church. Seriously, lady? I'm a Christian and you've made me hate Christianity, so I can't even IMAGINE what effect this has on outsiders to the faith, who don't differentiate between Jesus and the Church. Time out box. Now!

3) It's a tough call on who I want to go to time out more here - the IVF lady or the people who actually allowed her to have that much fertility treatment when already on "The Dole."

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1142566/The-mother-baby-bumps-Octuplets-mum-bares-ENORMOUS-stomach-just-days-giving-birth.html

That article pretty much sums it up situationally. I am all about repro rights for women, but... Come on. She's on welfare. There are a ton of potential parents all over the county who are trying very hard to have kids, who would dote on these kids and love them and support them - without welfare - that are being denied this treatment, or are being told that they just don't have enough eggs, sperm, etc. So why does this woman get so many chances when these other women are being denied? That does not compute with me.

4) Facebook. Specifically their frequent privacy and TOS changes. Regardless of whether they do or don't claim the right to your content indefinitely - even after it's removed - they still get a Time Out. If this is all a misunderstanding, as they claim, and they don't -really- claim your content interminably, then all they have to do is add the sentence back to their TOS to reassure users. That's it. If they don't plan on using it for evil either way, and it doesn't make a difference to them whether it exists or not, then what's stopping them from issuing a revised edition of their new TOS that includes the sentence in question. It's stupid and stubborn to not replace it, and it has caused more hassle than if they'd just come out and said, "Oops! We messed up! We're adding it back in as we speak."

5) Bailouts. Okay, so times are hard and people are spending less. You didn't. You overspent, and as a result you laid people off, so now they have even less to spend. Then, you go and you cry for mercy to the Congress, who bails you out for fear of losing all the lobbyist money they get from you to keep their cushy position. Okay, I really feel like crying, "No taxation without representation!!" and tossing some tea into the Atlantic. Yeah, I know, we have representatives that We the People voted into office. But we voted them in under the understanding that they are OUR representatives there to serve OUR needs. (Yes, I know none of us actually expect this, but theoretically...) When we have very little disposable income, when we are being laid off, it is NOT in our best interest to keep bailing out these companies. Let them bail themselves out. We're a capitalist nation (again, theoretically) and as such they should find a way to bail themselves out, be bought out, whatever. Either way, it's not on me and my tax dollar to bail them out of their "crisis" when their executives are still making more money in a few months than I make all year. So, time out to you, Congress, and time out to you as well, Executives. Try living on half your salary and putting the other half back into your company. If all of you did that, you wouldn't need us to bail you out, and you'd still have more money than the average American worker.

As TheJadeGeek pointed out, "Capitalism without bankruptcy is like religion without Hell." -Unknown