From time to time I see an article that sings the praises of telecommuting. I think that telecommuting is a great thing because it saves the employees a lot of time and money when they don’t have to drive to work. The only problem I’ve run into is that some companies only allow telecommuting to a select few management employees, and refuse to allow non-management employees that opportunity. I know quite a few people who feel that they could do their job just fine from home but their company won’t allow it. It seems that the company doesn’t trust the non-management employees to do their work if a manager isn’t standing right over their desks breathing down their necks.
I was reading an article about how important it seems to be to a lot of people to define Barack Obama as half-white OR half-black or all black or bi-racial or whatever. What is IS is a very well educated political leader that has been elected to be the next President of the United States. The color of his skin should not make any difference. The races mixed in his blood should make no difference. What he SAYS and what he DOES SHOULD make a lot of difference. So I think we should all just get over this debate and wish him luck in fixing this country’s troubles, because he is going to need all the luck he can get!
Daylight Savings Time begins today. I set the clocks back last night before I went to bed. I really wish that the country would just pick one time and stick to it! This business about “Spring Ahead and Fall Back” is just really hard for my poor body to adapt to! I really don’t like the changing back and forth at all! And I’ve heard that recent research suggests that even though the reason for doing the changing is to save energy costs, which have not happened. The energy costs in the summer have actually increased due to Daylight Savings time, not decreased.
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!
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.
