On November 10, I blogged about a middle-aged woman friend of mine who’s been trying to find a job since May.
Well, What Did They Expect?
Imagine, if you will, that you have been offered a good-paying job in the call center of a prestige company that offers top-of-the-line training, benefits, security and unlimited opportunities for growth and advancement.
Imagine further that your job exists because another worker was fired from theirs, leaving them without a means to support themselves or their kids, no health insurance and no realistic prospects for the future.
Finally, imagine that your CUSTOMER is that worker, or a friend or relative of that worker.
So, when you sit down at your nice new desk and pick up your nice new headset, what would YOU expect to hear on the other end of your nice new telephone?
Does this sound like a nightmare scenario to you?
The Good, the Bad, the Ugly
As to the good: the new IKEA store in Stoughton, about an hour away from the Cape.
Cope, Dammit!
Concerned about additional anomalies in my left eye, I called the opthalmologist’s office this morning, and they booked an immediate follow-on appointment for me.
Indian Summer
Having suffered our first hard frost, we are now experiencing the phenomenon known as Indian Summer – right now, it’s close to 70 degrees outside and almost stultifyingly humid.
Liberation Theology and the Death Penalty
I did not know until about 10 minutes ago that there are two versions of the Beatitudes in the New Testament, one in Luke and one in Matthew.
So, given this appalling level of ignorance, take the following with a grain of salt.
I-OK (Apparently)
The opthalmologist peered deep into my left eye yesterday and pronounced it unimpaired.
Let’s hope he’s right.
When It Rains…..
This morning, I went to a showing of “WAL-MART: The High Cost of Low Price” at a local church, when my left eye popped.
I started seeing big “floaters” and thousands of tiny black spots, and the characterisic “waves” of an eye migraine – there is no pain, but your vision is distorted, as if you’re looking through a thin waterfall.
So, watching the excesses of the WAL-MART Corporation made me sick.
Gardener’s Diary
First hard frost last night.
Madam President
In glorious counterpoint to the US’s dismal record of non-equal opportunities for women in the commercial and political spheres, Liberia’s Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf was elected the President of her country, thus becoming the first woman elected head of state in modern African history.