In my previous employment, I was asked to edit the graduation speech of a young women, who in the middle of the speech thanked God and Jesus for her success. Rambled about couldn't have made it through the neighborhood without her faith, etc. Then went on to thank teachers, parents, etc... I was asked to remove ALL the religious comments because it was "FEARED" that it would offend someone of another faith. A specific faith was mentioned, but I'll let you jump to your own conclusions so people don't call ME the hatemonger.

I asked to refuse based on MY faith and my disbelief in the "separation of church and state" crap. My argument was that if the speech was that inspiring that the school wanted to play it in front of incoming class, that it should be played in the entirety and we had no right to edit the speech without her permission. It was my first REAL exposure to a "progressive" agenda. Usually I gave the benefit of the doubt, when I heard about stuff like this happening. But here I was, being told to remove these comments from her speech. I was abhorred to the idea of doing such an edit. I was practically in tears while I explained WHY I could not do this.

I told the boss he can use my computer because that is where the editing software was, but I refused to do it myself. He told me to leave and complete other work while he did it. I left to putz around, but couldn't keep a clear head after all of this. The rest of the day was shot.

Later I was told in an "unofficial" meeting of just me and the boss (no witnesses, He just came in to the office the next morning and sat down) that I was being insubordinate. That it was in my contract I had to do the job appointed to me and if I had problems to bring up a complaint about it later. I was then told that would be the expected results if it ever happened again that I had no other choice. I then told my boss that I DID have another choice, that was to NOT do it, and QUIT my job. He said that wasn't a choice and besides; was I ready, with two toddlers at home, to take that action based on the current economic conditions that I might not find a replacement job.

What he didn't know was that since my kid had started Kindergarten in our school district that I lived in (not the the one I worked for) and we were already contemplating one of the parents quitting a job to deal with the school issues and the two kids. I was drawing the short end of the straw because of my pay being less than the wife's.

So I quit my job later that week because of "the kids" but for me it was the this last straw that lead me to do it. Do I regret it... Nope. The only thing I regret is that I should of raised more of a ruckus about it. I should of brought it up in public and made them contact the girl who made the speech. But I was just happy to leave and not have anything added to my "file". Oh, He quit a few months after I did because I was carrying his butt and without me around to run stuff, he was slowly being exposed... But that is little consolation to the fact that they still have the video that was edited to take out Jesus. Yep, for some reason GOD was "ok" as it was a general acknowledgment to a supreme deity that is common in most faiths, but the JESUS part had to go. I'm actually glad I'm not in that boat anymore.

So, Yes, it is out there... There are people who are in a minority that have majority power to effect the rights of others. Simply because they are in a position of power and they abuse it.

Yep, it was a cool movie in a 'B' way, but isn't that what makes it great. :)

No, the real reason is they are all on the same team, they just switch shirts occasionally to confuse us. In reality, what one starts, the other will finish because it is still a power for the puppet masters that are really in charge. WAKE UP SHEEPEOPLE! I wish it was as easy as putting on a pair of cool sunglasses, but you have to PAY ATTENTION!

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I hate farmville to...

There may be 9-10% people who already have a degree looking for the same job you are. You picked a lousy time to graduate. Go back in for a masters, you can get four more years of beer drinking and racking up the loans.

I was going for funny but got troll... Oh well, life goes on.

Yes because once they find the undocumented workers, they could use it to guide them to water, weapons caches and drop off points. Sounds like a plan to me... Must guarantee the flow of blow to Whitehouse parties...

Spoiler... It points to a story about 60% of countries being in debt, etc...
BUT, HU are they in debt to? YES... This could make a great comedy routine.

 

If I worked on this project and wrote code for it, I'd put lots of John Connor / Terminator comments in the code documentation. It would be so much fun for future coders that try and fix a bug and have to read those comments.

(Because we've had just as many terrorists of domestic extraction as we've had foreign ones. Turns out there's nuts willing to blow themselves up for a cause in every country...) Citation needed...

Would you rather work in Dubia where the average imported labor for building the great grand buildings is about $1 (one!) dollar per hour? The problem with Minimum wage is not that it is "pesky", but that it is a moving target! Evertime you change it then the whole supply line down to the consumer has to adapt and that usually means cut services, persons or increase cost. Not a problem for me, raise the cost, let the true inflation show. Then we'll see how the inflated monetary system can hold together.

Would that not put the second monitor looking down against your desk? |/_ ??

Is it more productive for coding because now you cannot surf Youtube or read Slashdot when you should be coding? That would increase my productivity too. :)

Because they don't have redundancy? Everyone gets mad because the USA wants to control the internet, but let something go bad and then someone wants to point fingers? Really? I just don't get the mentality of "We want you to do this for free" and then people turn around and B&M about the service being down for a bit.

Actually dude, YOU brought up the Goldline thing... I tried to tell you I don't know about goldline and don't use them. Anything beyond that is your own issue with them. If you want to argue and feel superior then fine, find a mirror.

The whole thing seems to started because I said the goverment can make a law to take it away... You seemed to think I was encuraging Goldine. But I had no mention of them, nor have I ever used them, nor do I have any idea what their selling practice is. When it comes down to it, a fool and there money will soon be parted. If that is by Goldline or the local pot seller or the local Casino is of no matter as long as the fool is left happy. If they are dishonest about it then someone will take them to court, etc... Otherwise, Caveat emptor

Yes, by "leave' a loophole I was mistaken that they would put it in a "new law"... I will concede that point, but my point is that they did it in the past, they could easily do it again. You are correct that there is NOT a current law that limits it in this way. Of course, I'm sure you or someone else would love to point out that "Past Performance not a true indicator of Future results" But I like to learn from history and give it a wide berth, not ignore it.