Disturbing that the word can be read as The Rapist. Any more out there?
Are You a Reaper?
My wife works in a large company… and as you well know many of these companies have been forced to scale down on the amount of staff in their offices. While many people will focus on logos when they hear of a lay-off… have you ever given thought that there are people that are given the unenviable task of delivering the bad news to the employees at a given unit. So upon hearing that “the Reaper” had visited my wife
s office I could not help but shudder thinking what a crappy task that is. I have laid off people, yet it was through the course of normal business. People saw me everyday and having meetings with me was not an uncommon thing. But when a specific person that never interacts with you shows up and leads five people out of the office with a couple of security guards…. that gets you noticed – thus the moniker, that while not too creative, designates the way she will now be perceived from here on. Her arrival this week created tension, tears and of course thoughts of her last visit. This time she took care of one person… not without causing a great amount of emotional devastation to those remaining.
In a way, it is like being in a cage…awaiting to be the next chicken cast into a boiling pot. A bad feeling for an employee – yet have you given thought that perhaps the Reaper has her own feelings, did not go to college just to fire and lay people off. Human Resources is about so much more, so it is sad that in these days some HR staffers are viewed as messengers of doom and death.
Part of this is the cowardice of corporate executives to take this task upon themselves – i.e. sit down with employees and give them the news personally.
When I was laid off two years ago, my boss sat down with me in a one on one meeting. It was shocking, yet I got it, it was not easy for him – and it has never been easy for me to lay off people, but I would not delegate the “dirty deed” to HR just out of respect to those I have lead.
If you are a Reaper, remember the feelings of the people that have formed a bond with you. Respect their reactions and offer your support. None of this should violate mandates to avoid lawsuits, etc. It should affirm your place in this World as a Human, not a messenger of death.
Chavez Anuncia Nuevo Orden
Y porque esto siquiera califico como noticia? Es triste que la gente escuche lo que este bribon tenga por decir. Es un delincuente que habla como si estuviera sentado en una mesa jugando domino, medio borracho.
Boost Mobile and its last ditch effort
Moribund Boost Mobile is trying to catch some market share by throwing a Hail Mary without any receivers. The Irvine based MVNO (that means they do not own their own network, rather they use Sprints old iDEN network). If you remember how bad iDEN was during the Nextel days and then how it died out with Sprint’s engineers hammering nails into the towers, then you know that the $50 dollars is not buying you much.
The intent is to be disruptive, sabotaging MetroPCS’ impending launch in Boston and New York, something that is already starting a huge buzz as signs and banners are popping up in these metro areas. Both Boost and TMobile will start to engage in lies and create myths about MetroPCS in desperation to keep their shrinking customer base.
As a customer you should question why they are not using the CDMA network? Why is Boost even around? MetroPCS has a JD Power award for customer service, Boost?
MetroPCS, according to engineers in the know is building a large network, a network that will catch the old, rickety iDEN bound Boost with its pants down.
High Cost Domestic Cars Must End
They cite National Security as a reason to save the big three. Leftists denounce Republicans for NOT saving Capitalists… topsy Turvy, Cambalache!!!! Craziness… Passenger cars can be built by the Chinese, Koreans, Japanese, Germans, Swedes… I do not care. Quality, a good price is what I need. National Security? Let GM build the Humvees that get blown up because the lack bottom armor. No big deal, specialize, I said it before. It is a good thing. I will not pay for UAW bloated hourly wages just so they can keep these jobs. Efficiency will bring better cars.
Why do we not have Green Cars? Why? Is it just the stupid ass executives fault? American Motors died owing to worker intransigence, will it happen again? Will it be the Tri-fecta?
Pocky-Stan Still Needs To Deliver
So Pakistanis have delivered some middle level combatant from the Lakshar Ola Homicidal group that massacred hundreds of innocents in Mumbai but really failed to anything else. The fact that Pakistan has nuclear capability is already an issue. They have been openly duplicitous on the Afghani border. If you really focus and think about it, Pakistan is a double agent working with the US. The Indians have every right to mistrust them – they are not going to get rid of A-Qaeda or Lakshar or any other militant groups anytime soon. It is apparent that the Pakistani officials and military are beholden monetarily to terrorist interests.
I certainly hope that the fire they play with will burn them. And then that they burn in hell (or what ever version they might believe in or should choose to believe in).
Illinois – Land of Lincoln or Land of Corruption?
Arrogant, Stupid, Pitiful, Bad Haircut – Governor Rod Blagojevich has shown what many of his fellow Illini pols are made of. The FBI officer made a comment about IL being if not the most corrupt state in the Union, a strong competitor.
Why did it take so long to clean up? Why are there others he is aware of? (arrest them!) How many more scandals can we expect Mr. FBI?
First ex-Governor Spitzer and now this clown. Arrogant (oh, I said that) and vindictive. This man will go down in history with many epithets, his greed and drunken ambition did him in. Perhaps he thought he was above wire taps and other crude surveillance techniques? Selling a Senate seat…. just begs to ask: How many have been bought?
Will Caroline Kennedy be given Hillary’s seat just because? How is she more qualified than Fran Drescher? Really, she is just a Kennedy, many of them drunkards, philanderers and some great statesmen. Is she buying the seat?
Time to clean up America my friends. These guys belong in Venezuela as supporters of the Chavez regime along with mediocrity abettors Sean Penn and Danny Glover. Perhaps banishment to Cuba for corrupt pols is a better punishment. Screw them all.
Bookies and your Stock Broker, What is the Difference???
Bookies and oddsmakers do not really undergo training that provides them a certification, they learn to analyze odds based the many transactions they have engaged on very human factors – injuries of a key player, ability to play in a snowstorm, etc… A Broker undergoes trainings that are required by the SEC and sometimes their employer if they happen to work for an “investment house”.
The differences aren’t much except that gambling is “illegal” in many states when it comes to betting on Sports, events, etc and “investing” is allowed in every state of the Union. I would be curious to know the return rates for somebody that actually had an investment account vs somebody that had a betting account. Both expenditures are not guaranteed, one has a veneer of sophistication, the other that of shadiness. The economic downturn has exposed many charlatans in the financial industry while fueling others. Our bailout is in the hands of glorified bookies trained by Goldman Sachs, but with the way the system was built, they are still perceived by many to be above the operations in Vegas or Atlantic City. Now let me ask you something, who is in the black?
Is it really that different?
Estampas de Mediocridad – Mediocrity’s Watermark: Hugo Chavez
Venezuelan Clown, Hugo Chavez has once again sunken to depths unimaginable. He should have a nickname like Submarine to justify his muckraking classless personality. He made no mention of the attacks in Mumbai this past week and of course made no effort to denounce terrorism.
Mr. Chavez would hardly have the moral backing to do so given his outright financial and tactical support of the FARC terrorists in Colombia. On the other hand, Dmitry Medvedev who was with Mr. Chavez visiting about nuclear power and showing their toothless grins to the world did take the time to denounce the barbaric actions.
La Desverguenza Musulmana
A pesar de la cantidad de asesinatos y masacres cuyos correligionarios orgullosamente proclaman, el clero musulman y su comunidad en general hace poco por demostrar si quiera pena o algun tipo de remordimiento. Actuan como si no pudieran controlar a las huestes de bombarderos suicidas o si no tuvieran alguna inteligencia previa de los atentados.
En la ONU pasan todo tipo de resoluciones para que no hagan caricaturas del Cabron Mohammed pero nada condenando los crimenes que estos gusanos perpetuan contra la humanidad. Mientras no cambie esto, poco pasara en el camino a la paz. Estos seres diabolicos, llamados terroristas quizas sean enviados de HaShem para recordarnos algo? No me cabe en la mente que tanta barbarie no sea castigada en lo divino ya que en lo terrenal, tu sangre y la mia valen poco.
