Okay, that rant calls for the Kaiba icon. Seriously, who else to put the Magic Kingdom owners in their place?
Oddly, my brother and sister-in-law lived in Northridge for a while -- she was there during the big earthquake in the mid-80s and he had moved back here for the summer at the time working split shifts in a restaurant. We saw the news on the Today show, woke him up ("ah, we always have earthquakes out there..."), convinced him this one was bad ("no, I don't need to call, we always have earthquakes -- wadda-ya-mean I should get up?) and found out she was okay though a good chunk of town wasn't. When we finally pried him out of bed and down to watch the news he recognized various buildings he'd driven past on the way to his previous job that were now in pieces.
Corporations suck to work for. The pay is there and the benefits are there, but there's no heart. Contrast that with the job I had in a small frame shop / gallery which was paying slightly better than minimum, with no sick leave, no insurance, no vacation, but when I was pregnant and got stuck on a week of bed rest the boss and his wife showed up at the door unexpectedly with four sacks of groceries. In small business they bother to know you, worry about you, and occasionally take care of you. Corporations just see you as a number on a piece of paper...
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Date: 2008-08-30 08:28 am (UTC)Oddly, my brother and sister-in-law lived in Northridge for a while -- she was there during the big earthquake in the mid-80s and he had moved back here for the summer at the time working split shifts in a restaurant. We saw the news on the Today show, woke him up ("ah, we always have earthquakes out there..."), convinced him this one was bad ("no, I don't need to call, we always have earthquakes -- wadda-ya-mean I should get up?) and found out she was okay though a good chunk of town wasn't. When we finally pried him out of bed and down to watch the news he recognized various buildings he'd driven past on the way to his previous job that were now in pieces.
Corporations suck to work for. The pay is there and the benefits are there, but there's no heart. Contrast that with the job I had in a small frame shop / gallery which was paying slightly better than minimum, with no sick leave, no insurance, no vacation, but when I was pregnant and got stuck on a week of bed rest the boss and his wife showed up at the door unexpectedly with four sacks of groceries. In small business they bother to know you, worry about you, and occasionally take care of you. Corporations just see you as a number on a piece of paper...