I guess we have finally had a REAL snow. Almost a couple inches.
I was disgusted / amazed at what a big deal the Journal Star made out of this routine winter snow. Front page news.
Maybe it is just me but it seems we have to make a big deal about the first snow every year.
Noah decided to come home early from his Judo class because the roads were bad. He was also “on call” from work and received a phone call while he was slip-sliding his way home.
He did the smart thing and told them to call him back later. I didn’t know working from home was one of his new duties in this job but it doesn’t surprise me.
MjL 07 Dec 2007, 6:47 a.m.
Tracey was in a meeting all day yesterday. The #Fresenius corporate chair warmers passed another asinine rule that the staff can’t wear Crocs or other shoes that have open heels or holes in the sides or top because they are concerned about needle sticks or blood contamination to the workers.
Now if these facetious bureaucrats were honestly concerned about the health and safety of employees they would hire enough workers so that their employees wouldn’t have to work 16 hour shifts. But No — they want to make them stop wearing comfortable shoes so their feet can hurt all the more on these long shifts.
Actually they never give a thought to how their feet ache or how much they miss their families because it never occurs to them —— just make some more stupid rules so it appears they are doing their jobs. Or in this case, try to protect the company from some imagined worker’s comp case.
It never occurs to them to check the records to see that their fears are unbelievably rare compared to all the real injuries caused by overwork. I guess overworking the employees must be cost effective enough to pay the worker comp?
MjL 07 Dec 2007, 6:48 a.m.
I have been sorting this out for about a year now and this is the most simplified explanation I could find of why our economy is such dire straights.
The overwhelming majority of people have been lulled into thinking this home loan foreclosure disaster won’t effect them.
What they don’t realize is that their 401k, their pension, health insurance, life insurance and just about any other investment is tied into this mess. Remember about a decade ago when “home equity loans” were the rage and everyone paid their credit cards, car loans, etc. off with these things? Well pay back is coming and it won’t just be those who made risky loan arrangements —— it will be the entire economy.
There is a reason why the dollar is fading fast and this is a major part of it. Banks playing fast and loose with reality.
“It was Charles Mackay, the 19th-century Scottish journalist, who observed that men go mad in herds but only come to their senses one by one.”
This quote also explains Bush’s ratings.
Michael T. 07 Dec 2007, 10:03 a.m.
Isn’t that the truth! What I’m afraid of is that even though they have come to their senses about Duh-bya —— they will turn around and vote for another GQP war monger just because they are still stuck in GQP mode.
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