I don’t know how much longer I can tolerate it

I know it shouldn’t matter, but one of the best examples of hypocrisy happened today. I have a co-worker who has a birthday on Sunday. Of course the office went out for lunch for her birthday; we signed the obligatory card and even had cake and ice cream. Well today she received a small bouquet of flowers from another member of our team located in another state.

This is the funny part, almost on a daily basis this co-worker complains, speaks ill of and escalates any issue to upper management about this person. Now if it were me, I would feel like an ass or heel. Of course this girl didn’t at all. She called the person who sent her the flowers, thanked her and carried on a small conversation; afterward she started in again about how nice she was to call her back but the girl was still an idiot. I wonder if the other worker would send the flowers if she knew what my co-worker really thought about them.

I should record what I hear daily in this department. You then could witness the phenomenon and hear for yourselves how people can be extremely nice and polite one minute and nasty and vicious the next.

Hopefully you can understand why I dont speak at work.

Disappointing

Why are we so . . . . . . Immigrant!

I recently heard that there was a group of ILLEGAL immigrants who were suing a rancher for stopping them from entering the United States illegally. They cite it was a violation of their civil rights.  

At first I thought . . naw . . that cant be then found the article and was astounded!

http://washingtontimes.com/news/2009/feb/09/16-illegals-sue-arizona-rancher/

I can understand the need to treat everyone equally no matter what country they are from, what I cant understand is the increasing need for America to give rights and privileges to those who aren’t citizens and not bound by the same obligations the true citizens of this country are. 

As this trend continues we will see our rights slip away and our hard work handed out like halloween candy, to those who just show up on our doorstep.

I guess I will have to start looking for a doorstep to show up on my own for my families future. 

Grease Lightning

Recently certain actions have been appearing more and more in the corporate world and I find it interesting that people wonder why the country is in the mess it’s currently in.

To get more to the point, each generation has its own flair, its own common trait it’s known for. For example, my parents grew up in the Vietnam era or the 60’s and for the most part the good values remained from their parents. (Of course some were loosened with weed)

Now take my generation, looking back we were called generation X, but actually we should be called the High School’rs. For some reason it seems the majority of those in this generation (who were teens in the late 70’s and 80’s) mentally can’t graduate from high school. Movies like Grease, Dirty Dancing and Ferris Bullers Day off were a weekend staple no matter how many times we had seen them.

Fast forward into adulthood and look at their actions. Jobs are had by who you know and not what you know. While at work you had better be in the popularity contest, if not you will be quickly left behind. Almost all responsibility is avoided in ALL areas. The disappointing thing is that the generation following us is worse yet.

I guesstimate that in 10 to 20 years Jobs will be had by how nice of a present you bring to the interview. Some of the WHO you know will be there as well. Oh and forget about working ANYWHERE if you look like a goon and can afford a designer or knock off designer bag/ and or clothing.

All of this is greatly disheartening to people like me who hold close to what are now becoming ancient values like, integrity, honesty, trustworthy and the ability to be upfront with others.

I agree that networking is a great tool but I don’t think it should be the only tool in filling positions. Unfortunately skills, experience and education have fallen behind networking as requirements.

So my advice to those of you who have children in school, tell them to be social, participate in everything they can. As long as they have a passing grade they will do well if they are the most popular kids at school. Oh and start saving now for that first interview bribe (whoops present) for when they get out of college. They’ll need a good job since by then minimum wage will be $100,000 a year. (With inflation and all)

End of rant