A bad place to work

Posted on 28th January 2009 in Business and/or office, Life, Opinion

I have had three relatives working at different “X”-Marts in the past couple of years. (Note: I am saying “X”-Mart but that is not the “real name” of the store – I don’t need any lawsuits so I’m changing the name to protect myself! Let’s just all say it’s a big company that most people know about.

I keep in close touch with them, and I have heard many horror stories from all three of them about their problems working there. I am going to explain this in three different posts to follow, so each one will get the proper “treatment” in my blog. I want to impress on you all how awful this company is to work for!

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Sentencing in China

Posted on 22nd January 2009 in Life, News, Opinion

I was really surprised to hear today that the China courts have sentenced two men to death, and one woman to life in prison over the tainted milk scandal in China.  I had not heard much about the case recently.  The fact that I had not heard much about it makes me realize exactly how much goes on in the world that we don’t hear about here in the USA.  I don’t like feeling uninformed!

I wonder if that makes us egotistical?  I wish we DID hear more about those types of things.  I understand that we have a lot of important news going on here, but there are channels that dedicate themselves to news 24/7 and I have often watched them and just seen the same stories repeated over and over.  I’m not talking about the “headline news” channels, either.  I think we, as a country, could do better about that kind of thing.

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