You Don't Need To Know This But...v2.0: Picky and Griping

Thursday, November 23, 2006

Picky and Griping

I know this is picky. I know what they mean to express. I know they are doing good deeds for others. I know I'm sitting on my rear and criticizing those making an effort. BUT---if I hear one more celebrity use the phrase "giving back to the community" I think I am going to bury my TV in the back yard.

Second grumpy item; one thing that I actually DO is that I won't shop, call or encourage, in even the slightest way, businesses to be open on Thanksgiving Day. If a particular store is so close to the brink of disaster that it has to be open on Thanksgiving Day then perhaps they are doomed to failure regardless of today's receipts. I realize my opinion is tainted by the fact that I had to work a partial day at work today. I also understand that there are countless people, police persons, fire and rescue, theme park employees, etc., that have no choice but to work today. However, not one person on this planet would have been harmed if Big Lots respected and appreciated their employees and allowed those employees to spend their holiday as they wished. No, I am not an employee of Big Lots, but I use them as an example.

In my particular case, there was not one reservation, one reservation cancellation, or one reservation modification that could not have waited until 7:00 am Friday morning. (The Vacation Club is closed on holidays and weekends and I haven't heard of any Emergency Room admissions due to this affront.) What is so bad about a message saying "We are sorry we missed your call on this Thanksgiving Day holiday. We hope our Cast Members are enjoying their holiday with family and friends as many of our Guests are today. Please call back after 7:00 am tomorrow, Friday, November 24th and we'll happily assist you with all your reservation needs."?

So here's what I don't do. I don't do business today. I don't stop at fast-food restaurants on my way to work today. I don't get gasoline. I don't pick-up last minute groceries at Winn Dixie. I don't do ANYTHING that would tell business owners that it's OK for them to have employees work on holidays.

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"If you think health care is expensive now, wait until you see what it costs when it’s free!"~P.J. O’Rourke

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~Lillian Hellman

"Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys."
~P J O'Rourke

"A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves money from the public treasure. From that moment on the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most money from the public treasury, with the result that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy followed by a dictatorship. The average age of the world's great civilizations has been two hundred years. These nations have progressed through the following sequence: from bondage to spiritual faith, from spiritual faith to great courage, from courage to liberty, from liberty to abundance, from abundance to selfishness, from selfishness to complacency from complacency to apathy, from apathy to dependency, from dependency back to bondage."
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~George W Bush

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~Winston Churchill

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"We know what our policy is regarding the territory of Israel, Kosovo, Bosnia, Macedonia and even Nagorno-Karabakh. What is our policy regarding the territory of the United States? No nation in history has ever been as willing to accommodate those who would dismember it as has the United States of America. Trying to get a straight pro-U. S. comment out of a U.S. elected official is like trying to nail a custard pie to the side of a barn."
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You Don't Need To Know This But...v2.0

Thursday, November 23, 2006

Picky and Griping

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