I’m upset.
Yesterday, one of the girls at work asked if she could go home early because “there is nothing to do”. Surprisingly, the request was granted.
At the end of today, she effectively got fired, but in a cleverly-worded way that tries to make it sound like it’s what she wanted.
Look, I know she’s got some faults, and I know that it was completely out of line for her to ask to go home early, but she still didn’t deserve this treatment. She has been talked about behind her back, and some of the things said have been most unfair. I would go so far as to say that she can be pretty damn indispensable sometimes, especially when there are lots of customers.
Take today, for instance. It was busy virtually the whole day. Before she came back from worker’s comp, I was the ONLY salesperson on the floor most of the time. Even if there were five sets of customers waiting to be served, none of the other staff members would leave the office and actually go and serve customers, without whom there would be no office work. The girl I’m talking about DID serve customers, without being told to. She’d also find odd jobs that needed doing, and do them. I did the same, which I guess is part of the reason why I get along with her so well compared to the others.
So, I’m upset that she’s been treated in this manner and I’m upset that my colleagues have been mean to her and mean behind her back. I’m upset that she was fired a mere eight hours after I gave her some vocational coaching in an effort to keep her from getting fired. I’m also upset that my workload is going to go back to the completely unrealistic levels it was before.
I’ll say it again: She’s got visible faults that can be a problem, and in fact she wasn’t going to stay at the shop for much longer anyway, but she didn’t deserve any of this, and I’m going to miss her. (I got her phone number anyway to keep in touch). So yes, I’m upset at the moment; I see that Mary Poppins is going to be on TV in twenty minutes and I just feel like lying down and watching it.
Two more things for today: I heard on the radio that the State government budget is in the red already - remember, we’re half-way through financial year! I would like to start the call for Colin Barnett and his government to be investigated for corruption. Barnett is famous for not spending money on anything (and blaming it on Royalties For Regions and the “Global Economic Downturn”), so how on earth is WA in deficit? The answer: Somebody must be siphoning off money. There’s no other way this could be happening.
From the “A Bit Hypocritical” files: Christians have been complaining about the atheist advertisements in the buses and trains of England, that say “God probably doesn’t exist”, and demanding that the atheists be made to prove their claim. I’d like to see the Christians be made to prove their advertised claim that “God loves you”.
But what really annoys me is that the atheist ads were made “In response to the Christian ads threatening damnation to non-believers”. Well if you want to retaliate against the Christians, that’s fine - but the wording of the ads implies very strongly that NO god exists. This is offensive to me as a non-Christian and non-atheist, and VERY misleading because no atheist has ever attempted to disprove the existence of MY god, only of the Christian god. Neither I nor anyone representing my god actually threatened damnation on anyone, so why are you attacking my beliefs?
That’s what atheists do - they don’t actually believe that no god exists; they just want to try and prove that the Christian god doesn’t exist. And then expand that claim into “No god exists”. You never find an atheist who was never involved in a religion when they were younger. It’s like a vendetta that they have against Christianity, only the ironic thing is that there’s still one core Christian belief that all atheists still hold: That if there’s a god, then it’s the Christian god. If atheists try to prove that the Christian god doesn’t exist, they think that it proves that no god exists.
It’s complicated, and darkly humourous.
Anyway, I’m still feeling a bit upset so I’ll leave it ’til later.
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While I fully agree with you on certain aspects, I would like to point out that not all Christian’s condemn non-Christian’s to Hell. I have never and I am a Christian. While I disapprove, because of personal beliefs, what the atheists are doing, I would nver call foul, or try to make them “prove” anything. I believe in freedom of religion completely and that all people have different beliefs. Would I prefer not to be attacked at every turn because of my beliefs? Yes, I would. Am I going to strike back at the people who strike at me? No, I will not. Regardless of what Christian’s have done in the past, and still do now, Jesus was a complete pacifist and would have me love those who strike out at me. And so I do. I guess it all boils down to is, I agree with you on people being hypocrites (I am not getting into the the whole one God thing (it is all faith, my friend)). I do think think we all should have our beliefs and any attack on ANY faith in a country with freedom of religion should be frowned upon by all. The fact that the atheists put the signs up shows that they don’t thing freedom of religion is right (there is a difference between signs saying “Take your family to church”, et al and “There is no God”, et al)
My name actually is Christian, so it was not me being cute, and I apologize for the spelling errors.
That’s a good point too: With the advertisements, the atheists are attacking even the Christians like yourself who don’t intrude their own beliefs on everyone else. I should have said “I’d like to see those Christians be made to prove…”, as in “those Christians who demanded that the atheists prove their claim of no god”.
And by making ads that retaliate against Christian-sponsored ads, aren’t those atheists just forcing the situation to escalate? As the song aptly says, “It’s a goddamned arms race”!