Sigh...
Posted on 06/09/2004 6:18:49 AM PDT by Hemingway's Ghost
I felt like I had to share this with all of you . . . I'm sitting here in the offices of a major investment company in Boston, and here's a sampling of some of the comments flying over the cubicle walls:
"I don't see why everyone's celebrating the life of this utterly stupid, incompetent man." "It's obvious he had Alzheimer's long before he left office." "The man was stupid, lazy, and a complete disaster for this country." "It's horseshit that Reagan defeated communism. Communism defeated communism." Normally this wouldn't disturb me one bit, as I believe people should be free to speak their minds, even if what they say is stupid (it's up to us to set them right). But a few months ago, my boss came up to me and said she needed to talk to me "about a human resources issue." She took me aside and told me that someone had overheard me saying something that was offensive; something that reflected poorly on our department. Yes, someone had overheard me having a private conversation with a co-worker in which I said "that's so gay," as in "that's ridiculous," or "that's lame"---a common use of that phrase in the area and era I grew up in. My boss was embarrassed to have to bring this to my attention---she had grown up using the phrase in the same way so she knew I meant nothing hostile by it. But she also knew if she didn't say something to me, and the person who complained found out that she didn't, she'd have an awful HR fiasco on her hands. Imagine if I was so thin-skinned? When I overheard the bravo sierra above (the anti-Reagan shite) I piped up: "EASY," etc., trying to use a bit of humor to convey my point and diffuse the hostility. After all, the people doing the griping are directors. Just a real-world, every-day example of how tolerance only goes one way here in Boston, Massachusetts. If you're a member of a protected class, you get tolerance. If you're not---and worse, if you're not one of the herd---you get squat. "I'm sure if you're really broken up over this, on Friday you can go into one of the quiet rooms and snivel."
Well, what else should one expect from the city that's bending over and grabbing its ankles for the DNC. They don't make Bostonians like they used to.
Sometimes I really loathe this mother effing city bump.
"WHY ALL THIS CELEBRATION OVER A PRESIDENT SO UTTERLY STUPID?"
What is so intelligent about a president sitting in the Oval Office with his trousers around his ankles??
You said a mouthful.
Otis, Adams, Warren, Franklin, Revere . . . all dead, gone, and forgotten.
Compolain about the insensitivity you are hearing uttered about persons afflected with alsheimers.
Good one!
The City and State that keep the Kennedys and Kerrys of the world in office, what would you expect?
so utterly stupid to be elected twice -landslides both times
He went to Oxford, don't you know.
Sigh...
You're in Boston. Why are you surprised?
You have ben takin spel chek lesons frum mi ; )
He was very much his own man and was an intellectual thinker, just not the type of thinker that liberals want to hear or acknowledge.
do you know what? the LEFT assumes everyone agrees with them. that is the mindset. i am an extreme minority in my professional setting as well, and it frosts me every single time. i NEVER assume that someone that i might be speaking to, agrees with me. NEVER. because i feel relatively certain that they don't. But the left is so arrogant as to hold the opinion that ANYONE WITH A BRAIN must think as they do, so why not speak their minds.
Boston = home of Islamo Kerrorists!
If I were one of those pussy weasels who complained to others, i.e, going to HR at the drop of the hat, I would. However, I prefer to fight my own battles.
I'm so happy to have moved from Massachusetts to Cincinnati. The flags in my town were at half mast at every single government and school building ...by Sunday afternoon!
Wish I new which investment company...I certinly dont want a bunch of iditos like that managing my portfolio...
I read this in my local liberal-biased paper this morning. I had a chuckle hoping that the DemocRATS would get what they deserve:
June 8, 2004, 9:31PM
Protesters flood convention site
Potential headaches loom for Dems as union workers voice displeasure
Associated Press
BOSTON -- Hundreds of union pickets sympathetic to a police labor dispute surrounded the site of the Democratic National Convention on Tuesday, preventing preparations for the political gathering scheduled to begin in less than two months.
Union firefighters, electricians and other trade workers joined police officers picketing over a long-simmering dispute with Mayor Thomas Menino. The 1,400-member police union has been without a contract for two years. Talks broke down Monday, with each side blaming the other for the impasse.
The dispute could extend to the party itself. The head of Maine's Democratic Party said she thinks her state's delegates -- many of whom are union members -- will refuse to cross the picket lines during the convention.
"The Maine Democratic Party has very close ties to organized labor," chairwoman Dottie Melanson said. "A great many members of our delegation would absolutely not cross a picket line."
The beginning of round-the-clock picketing coincided with the start of a $14 million construction project to prepare the FleetCenter, a sports arena, for the Democratic National Convention on July 26-29. Telecommunications workers have already said they won't cross police pickets to install thousands of miles of telephone and data lines.
Pickets gathered at the city's North Station commuter site, which shares a building with the FleetCenter, handed out leaflets critical of Menino to people on their way to work. Some held signs reading, "Friends Don't Let Friends Cross Picket Lines."
"The message is being sent that we're serious," said Thomas Nee, president of the Boston Police Patrolmen's Association. "Solidarity is alive and well in Boston."
Faced with crossing the picket line, many subcontractors reporting for work turned back instead, including a fleet of 18 moving trucks driven by Teamsters.
"We've been Teamsters for 43 years," said Ed Owens, president of Owens Movers. "We don't cross picket lines. Our guys were excited. It's the biggest move in Boston. It was disappointing."
The Greater Boston Labor Council, which represents 90,000 workers in 93 unions in the area, rejected a project labor agreement Monday that promised no union strikes if convention organizers used only unionized labor on construction projects at the FleetCenter. Organizers could be forced to hire nonunion workers, an unthinkable prospect for a Democratic Party built on a foundation of organized labor.
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