You’ll notice this Pizza, when I’m not replying to you, it only means that you’re being silly! XD
[QUOTE=“konan;485329”]You’ll notice this Pizza, when I’m not replying to you, it only means that you’re being silly! XD[/QUOTE]
I noticed you didn’t appreciate your avatar being described as a French looking Christian bale … The new one now just looks like a gay lumber jack lol… But hey, whatever gets you motivated.
agreed…
That’s Patrick Bateman. How dare you sir!
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That’s Patrick Bateman. How f%$&$ dare you sir![/QUOTE]
Is he a famous gay lumberjack?
why u interested?
I really do agree with the spirit of a couple of your points when it comes to the entitlement attitude and persuing excellance at what someone does for a living. But I’d also say that there is a legitimate flip side to what you’re saying.
There is some protection that employees need from predatory actions from their employer. The US is terrible when it comes to maternity leave, and really really terrible when it comes to paternity leave. If you start a professional job and then commit the sin of getting pregnant shortly after, even other women (I’m a man) will make jokes about your dedication, and I it can damage ones long term prospects at a company. There are laws in-place, but currently these laws do the least they can. When you’re over forty, finding a job becomes harder because employers know you’re going to want to avoid long hours to be with family and are more likely to get sick. That’s why there are protected categories to help protect workers from descrimination, but again, employers try to get around these laws. Sometimes women come back from their maternity leaves, and are economically forced to work excessive overtime at the office (even if they have the capability to work from home) while someone else is providing care to their newborns. If our only alternative as a society is to say ‘go work someplace else’ then something is wrong, and this is a common thing. Even companies with work life balance programs frown on their employees taking advantage of them frequently.
At financial service companies, most employees expect yearly incentive payments. The demand on ones time is often well beyond 9-5, level of stress and overall bs is pretty considerable. These are not stable feeling environments. Most of these companies as a part of the status quo announce annual cutbacks as a way to motivate employees to work harder and expect less in return for their work. It really is a demeaning way to treat people, and this definitely contributes to why Americans are unhealthier, having higher rates of obesity, high blood pressure, diabeties, etc. We are a stressed out culture, all of which affects the cost of medical care. Having worked for both European and US owned companies, the overall benefits and culture towards employee personal needs is far better at the European owned business.
Do you see the need for unions and laws (in industries where unions don’t traditionally exist) to protect employee rights, or are you in favor of complete deregulation when it comes to companies dealing with their employees?
Do you see the need for unions and laws (in industries where unions don’t traditionally exist) to protect employee rights, or are you in favor of complete deregulation when it comes to companies dealing with their employees?
Not for unions. Again, employees can negotiate themselves…it’s the NLRB (which is incredibly corrupt) who tries to prevent employees from directly negotiating with an employer.
I think the common sense laws about not stealing, lying, fraud, are good laws. I don’t think an employee has rights-to say for instance, 2 weeks paid vacation a year, or paid leave-those are considered as benefits, and are negotiable.
All that said, I know while it’s not usually business owners, but supervisors who can be hard to get along with, the person always has the choice to look for work elsewhere, and usually a high-turnover rate gets a good business owner’s attention, and if they’re attentive, they’ll fire that supervisor. This is how majority of US business work. Unions only have 8% of all US workers now, and non-union employees are doing just fine…union membership has been shrinking, especially in states that have voted in right to work, which allows employees to [B]choose[/B] whether to be in union or not.
All this JOB talk depresses the hell out of me. Thank Cheez-its those slave days are behind me
Hogarste,
Sorry for the delay replying to your post. This thread has been active lately, and your post got missed in the shuffle (even though you posted it twice!). You were questioning some things I said about the media, in regards to the [I]Frontline[/I] documentary video which I linked to.
Anyway, here’s my reply —
I was referring to the agenda of the mainstream media in this country, which I have dubbed the Obama Sock Puppet Media. Their agenda is to slavishly parrot everything Obama says, and to slavishly defend Obama from all manner of criticism.
Obama has ordered that the words [I]Muslim, Islam, Islamic, Islamist, jihad,[/I] and [I]war on terror[/I] be purged from all federal government documents and communications which deal with terrorist attacks against the U.S. here or abroad.
The Obama Regime is trying to manipulate the public perception of facts by sanitizing the language used to report those facts.
An honest news media would expose this sort of manipulation for the abuse of power that it is. But — with very few exceptions — we no longer have an honest news media in this country. Instead, we have the Obama Sock Puppet Media.
Those words absolutely belong in these reports, because Muslim terrorism is precisely what these reports are describing.
The Obama Sock Puppet Media have slavishly omitted the “forbidden words” from their reporting; and, in so doing, they have turned themselves into the propaganda arm of the Obama Regime.
If you listen carefully to the language used in that [I]Frontline[/I] program, I think you will agree that PBS created the false impression that the terrorist attacks against the U.S. have come from two enemies: [I]Afghanistan,[/I] and a shadowy criminal enterprise called [I]al-Qaeda.[/I]
That’s about as misleading as saying that the attack on Pearl Harbor came from Asia.
What Obama will not acknowledge, and the Obama Sock Puppet Media will no longer report, is that those terrorist attacks have come from the radical wing of the Muslim religion.
I don’t know what that comment means.
Lebanese Christians have not launched terrorist attacks against the U.S. (or against anyone else, as far as I know). There is no Christian holy war against the U.S.
There is no Buddhist holy war against the U.S. There is no Hindu holy war against the U.S.
But, [B]Muslim jihad (holy war) is being waged against the U.S.[/B] by a dangerous faction of the Muslim religion.
And we’d better start calling it what it is.
Which “faction of the Muslim religion” is that again?
Walter Williams once said, "Prior to capitalism, the way people amassed great wealth was by looting, plundering and enslaving their fellow man. Capitalism made it possible to become wealthy by serving your fellow man.
How true, how true.
It’s the hijacked-airplane / shoe-bomb / underwear-bomb / pressure-cooker-bomb faction.
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It’s the hijacked-airplane / shoe-bomb / underwear-bomb / pressure-cooker-bomb faction.[/QUOTE]
You forgot car-bomb, suicide-bomb, roadside-bomb, subway-bomb, and police checkpoint-bomb on that list.
also empty chair-bombs…Clint don’t like no empty chairs, he’s been yelling at them ever since Spike Lee called him a racist
Right, SwingTrader?!
I agree with u on many points, I am very much against unions and their strong arming business into outrageous demands and I agree capitalism promotes hard work and pushes people to aim higher. However not everyone is in a position to go to university and pure capitalism promotes a great divide between the rich and poor, ever notice how those same rich kids who go to top universities end up working in top jobs for either their daddies or his CEO golf buddies, further creating a greater divide. You say a business should pay whatever it wants and leave it to employees to negotiate, but when a job at maccas requires no skill how does an easily replaceable employee negotiate. Without minimum wage standards, and some form of union protection these people will never have an opportunity to be more than what they are. Working 60 hours a week to feed yourself doesn’t leave much time for studying, and I am guessing your pure capitalism society wouldn’t support free or subsidised education, so how do they move forward and go beyond maccas, the short answer is they don’t and the rich become kings and queens and the poor remain slaves to their jobs.
The truth is, the best solution is in the middle. Pure capitalism or pure socialism is bound to fail in the long-run. You need to protect the working class, but still provide a framework for healthy competition amongst business entities.
Not really. Not at a federal level at least.
Please explain?