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Post by Eolith on May 2, 2006 17:44:01 GMT -5
No, I’m not complaining about some petty little argument with my parents about whether I could wear a strapless dress or something. (In fact I wouldn’t be caught dead in one of those.) What I’m talking about is the whole corporate way of working things. My dad was laid off today. No rhyme, no reason. The company just wanted to save money. They didn’t want to pay an experienced employee that much more and give him that much more vacation when they could just work a novice into the ground for less pay and less vacation. 12 years. As long as I can remember. Now I come home to find out that it’s all over… and conveniently just two or three years before he could have retired with pay. Businesses don’t view employees as humans any more. In their minds the definition of an employee seems to have morphed into ‘an expendable object that will work for your means indefinitely until fired when it becomes too inconvenient’. I’m mad… and I’m so… so… sorry. I don’t know what to say. My dad has been handling it so well as far as I can see. I hope he just isn’t hiding anything beneath the surface. It’ll be more time to spend with the family. It’ll give us a chance to finish up some things around the house that we’ve been wanting to do. The way Life works:
Take your pick, Money or Time… ‘cause there’s no way in heck you’ll be getting both.
The Big Questions:
What’s the use of having Money if you don’t have Time?
What’s the use of having Time if you don’t have Money? |
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Post by Shades on May 2, 2006 21:48:35 GMT -5
wow those are very profound questions. Maybe I'll write something up on that. I'm so sorry about that, ur right life is unfair, my dad had a $150,000 dollar desk job when I was born and then a week after I was born he was laid off because they thought that he should have taken the job in Guam, and that he should seek a job somewhere else, now tell me why the job in Guam ment anything to Kana it isnt like he was gunna solve poverty over there for them, yeah you're right Eolith life is unfair, but life is also what you make it.
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Post by Eolith on May 2, 2006 22:57:09 GMT -5
Lol, I'm glad to have sparked creative thoughts. I tend to get pretty riled up sometimes, and those times are always when I write best... no surprise really
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Post by Shades on May 3, 2006 2:19:51 GMT -5
Then write something for us  |
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Post by vermilition on May 3, 2006 5:03:43 GMT -5
those are good questions...  its a shame about your dad you are right though corporations use and abuse employies the worker is a tool not a human being thats the problem with working for a big corporation if you work with people on a personal level i.e. small convenience store or a horse farm you have the oppertunity to know your boss and to let him know you but in a coporation you are talkin to a guy in a suit not a person... |
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Post by Eolith on May 3, 2006 19:29:16 GMT -5
Exactly. You know what though? He was fired yesterday and he got a job offer today. I'm stunned. It's almost too quick. He still has four months during which the company will pay him without him working. He kind of wants to use that time.
This is totally off topic, but it really bugged me at the time. In my English class we're doing novel projects and we have little reading groups. My group is reading The Eight. I don't know if you've heard of it, but it's super good so far... kind of like the DaVinci code... but not as sacrilegious towards religion. Anyway, it's a good 600 pages... in fine print I might add. One of the girls in my group finished it in a day and a half. She was giving me a hard time because I've had the book a week and I'm only 2/3 of the way through! Excuse me for having a life. I think I'm chewing through it fast enough, this book is more than twice the length of the books other groups are reading. If I were reading any other book, I'd be done.
That's not all! Each member in the group has to write a paragraph for one of the characters. This speed-read girl calls working on the main character (Catherine or Cat). I say I'll work on Solarin and then she decides that she's going to do Solarin. Fortunately the teacher had overheard me saying that I'd do Solarin and sorted everything out before things got too Kindergarten-ish. So it was finalized that I'd do Solarin. A few minutes later, the speed-read girl says that she'll write a paragraph for him anyways and we'll just use whichever is better! Let me tell you that she is miss perfection when it comes to these essays and paragraphs. Of course anything she did would be better than mine. -folds arms in a huff- I feel so inadequate compared to her, and she's just rubbing it in as deep as she can.
Thank you for surviving my rant... if you did. ;D
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Post by vermilition on May 4, 2006 0:40:18 GMT -5
*picks half dead body up from ground*
no i think i survived but i cant feel the left side of my body
only kiding cool about your dads job offer!!!
good luck to him...
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Post by ♠Kari♠ on Dec 16, 2006 16:50:36 GMT -5
All this happened last night? I really need to pay attention. Um, I'm sorry your dad got laid off. That happened to my dad a couple years ago.
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Post by ddddyyyy on Aug 2, 2009 22:29:05 GMT -5
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Post by Shades Not Logged In on Aug 6, 2009 5:57:54 GMT -5
expand maybe?
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Post by faithless on Aug 22, 2009 0:19:00 GMT -5
Oh, where to begin... Such ripe, young blossoms to be picked apart and dissected in the search of truth...
Life isn't fair, you say. Yet I see nothing of life in what you follow up with. What I do see is faceless rambling about a machine, or rather, an illusion as false as morality.
I see no questions posed, as both time and this monetary filth are both equally worthless.
I see no point, as you've missed reality.
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