Slugs at Work

Collapse of the American Dream

Hi all!
I'd ask how you are, but really What kind of a Richard Noggin would I be if I showed the least little bit of concern? A fake, a phony, a fraud! That's what I'd be. I may be called a lot of things...a whole lot of things, but you can't call me a fake. If you haven't read my first lens introducing myself, I encourage you to do so (Click Here). This will give you a little bit better understanding of where I'm coming from.
The American Dream is different for each person. It even varies depending on where you are in your life. For instance, when I was a kid, growing up in the Midwest, we didn't have much of anything except siblings. I was number seven of eight. Mom and Dad did the best they could and considering the hardships they faced, they really were amazing people. For us kids at the time, the American Dream was surviving the Saturday night death cage match. The prize was the fabled "extra piece of the colonel's original recipe". Dad always did like watching sports. Usually the older kids won and I never even saw the chicken we valiantly risked death for. Of course no one ever died, but I spent my fair share of time at the hospital getting stitches; and I'm pretty certain I survived at least one assassination attempt at the hands of an older sister. But I'm off topic.
Now days for me, the American Dream no longer consists of chicken or family brawls. Those are just distant memories. I have grown older and wiser over the years. The Dream has become a vision of abetter life for me and my children. A life, not free of troubles but full of hope. Hope that I can go to the local Wal-Mart without being robbed at gunpoint. Hope that a drunk driver won't plow into me on my way home. Hope that the economy won't collapse tomorrow and the company I work for won't close and leave me jobless. Are you seeing the pattern yet? Yes, there is hope in my life, but there is also fear. Because every day I go to work and see the same old slugs doing the same old things, and I know in my heart that one thing is certain. THEY ARE SCREWING IT UP FOR ALL OF US!

Slugs at work

Thanks for joining me,

Today I would like to discuss a little thing I like to call "WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH PEOPLE!" I know what you are thinking. This is such a broad subject how can we ever afford that kind of time? Well, let me narrow the subject matter down a bit. I want to specifically discuss slugs in the work place. I have to save "Idiots in the workplace for another time."
I live in a "Right to Work and be incredibly lazy state". Now, before you get all bitchy about it, I have nothing against "Right to Work" I am not an expert on the subject, but in this day and age it seems to me that we have to allow businesses to be competitive. We now live in a global marketplace after all and the competition is tough. It is the "Right to be incredibly lazy, still making as much as the guy who has to work extra hard to carry the dead weight" that really pulls my chain. When did our "Just Do It" society start sporting the motto "Let someone else do it while I screw off ". We went from "Can do" people, to a bunch of "It's not my job"  people. It just makes me sick to hear people whining because the company they collect their pay from is actually expecting them to WORK for their wages!
The company I work for has about two thousand employees at this location. Of this, I would guess about half actually come CLOSE to earning their pay. That means nearly fifty percent of the indigenous population of this manufacturing plant are nothing but a bunch of free loaders! They are charlatans, passing themselves off as part of the "Working Class" when in fact they are part of the national welfare system that is breaking this once great country. People, wake up and realize that the biggest reason for unemployment going up is that businesses are moving out. They are moving overseas or worse still, they are closing their doors! They just can't compete in today's market, paying twice the wage for half the work! To add insult to injury, most of what I see going on belongs in a teen movie.
Buddy, if you want to get into her pants, do it after work. Don't stand around on the clock acting like Don Frigging Juan. This is a business, not a whore house! If you can't hook up with this trollop after work, you can still go home to your spouse. Who knows, you might wind up getting lucky after all! She was good enough for you to marry and to have your children, how about giving her a little respect?
Don't get me wrong, it's not just the swinging dicks that are stealing from the company here. Many of the women are basking in the attention of their coworkers (or should I say co-employees) instead of earning their keep. They worry more about how they look then they do about what they should be accomplishing. I dare say many are looking for that "Ring of Destiny". The golden ring that promised them the easy life while the giver of the ring works to pay the bills! I'm sure you know to what I'm referring; after all it is the oldest form of slavery known to mankind.
Who do you suppose winds up paying for all of this mating in the workplace? The consumer pays. Every time the consumer is forced to spend three times what they should have to for goods and services, they are paying people to cheat their employer. But there is good news!
Forget that the economy is in the toilet. Forget that unemployment is on the rise. Forget that people are losing their homes, their cars, their savings and their Frigging minds! There is an upside to all of this. You know that immigration problem that the United States has been having. There is something in the neighborhood of 11 million illegal immigrants and counting. This is soon going to change. You see, when the U.S. becomes a third world country, our borders are going to explode outward! It's the Damn Canadians that will have the immigration problem, not us! Now, isn't that good news? See, the silver lining? I wonder if the Canadians are going to force their children to learn American English to accommodate their new work force? I can almost hear the teacher now..."Ok class, repeat after me. Ya'll fixin viddles?" That'll be sweet.
What? You say you don't want the Great and Powerful U.S. to collapse? It can't be too late? What can we do about it? That's easy, WORK. If you have a job, then JUST DO IT! Earn your pay and chase the ladies or the little swinging thingies on your TIME OFF! When employers are getting their moneys worth, they can start competing in the marketplace again and EVERYBODY WINS! Now isn that easy? It is time that Americans learn the value of work again; and for goodness sakes TEACH IT TO YOUR KIDS.
Here ends the soapbox sermon. Now, go take your blood pressure medicine and try to calm down. That's what I'M going to do.

Until next time remember, "If at first you don't succeed, you probably didn't follow the instructions". Read more at Slugs at Work .