Canada, My Canada - What's Next?

[KvHagedorn]

Originally posted by Hati
posted by Joel :
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I had one gay fellow tell me one time that since they were born that way that they should have minority status just like blacks and special laws that give them hiring perferences over hetros.
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Heard this too from a guy/gay at work.
Unfortunately I once had him as a co-worker.

One example:
At that time I was member of a DBA team and had to take care of some ADABAS databases and COM-PLETE TP-systems running on several IBM mainframes.
One morning when I checked the systems I saw nothing was working / everything was messed up.
So I took care of the production systems telling this guy to check the systems for application development and test.
After working for some time I turned around and saw my co-"worker" reading the newspaper. I asked him "Hey - what's up with the development/test systems?" (because I saw they were still down.)
He slowly looked up from the paper, looked at me very reproachful (how could I dare ...) and told me : "Hey, I can not work under stress !!!" then he continued reading the paper without making any attempt to check/fix anything.
Worst thing : When I complained about this, my boss told me that I could not treat this guy like everyone else because he was so over-sensitive/special.
In fact this guy was just lazy and not interested in doing any kind of work at all. (He considered himself being an artist for doing some painting in his spare time)
Finally this smart*ss managed that I was removed from the team because he constantly complained about how bad I treated him (I do NOT accept such an attitude!).
Although I got a better job as some kind of compensation (my boss knew where the problem was) I still find this totally unacceptable!
But you better do not dare to say something against this guy ! Or you are automatically considered being biased / homophobe.

The problem is your spineless management. If they had any guts they would fire the guy, specifically listing that the problem was him not doing his job. If he tried to bring any shit down because of it, the problem would be whether the courts are equally spineless. Trust me, if we put up with enough of this sort of shit, the world will rot from within and implode.

[Admiral]

Can't management secretly tape a normal day at work with said type and use a few coworkers to testify that it's routine when it comes to court ?

Or does that infringe some personal privacy/rights law ?

[KvHagedorn]

Pretty soon productivity will become illegal and our rights to be worthless slobs with high pay will be guaranteed.

[Ajax]

Originally posted by KvHagedorn
Pretty soon productivity will become illegal and our rights to be worthless slobs with high pay will be guaranteed.

I work with a few of those worthless slobs... Sad thing is, they get paid more than those of us who actually work.

[leech]

Originally posted by Ajax
I work with a few of those worthless slobs... Sad thing is, they get paid more than those of us who actually work.

Isn't that the way it has ALWAYS been. The rich/higher paid people do LESS work than the grunts. Basically the rich get richer and the poor get more poor.

Leech

[Joel]

Reluctant to get involved in another military fight, the Bush administration on Wednesday debated how to respond to international pressure that it send peacekeepers to Liberia.

"It is premature to say an announcement is forthcoming in the next day or so," Secretary of State Colin Powell said after consulting with U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan.

Despite U.S. reluctance, thousands of Liberians celebrated outside the U.S. Embassy in Monrovia late Tuesday as rumors spread about possible U.S. intervention.

Besides Annan, France, Britain and both sides in Liberia's fighting also have pushed for an American role in a peace force.

Looks like some do want US to be the world's policemen. Even those that didn't want US to do anything with Iraq, but we all know the reasoning behind that.

Joel

[Byock]

Originally posted by Joel
Looks like some do want US to be the world's policemen. Even those that didn't want US to do anything with Iraq, but we all know the reasoning behind that.

Joel

Yes, yes we do.

[KvHagedorn]

Screw liberia.. did anyone help Germany during the 30 years war? Yeah, they helped stir things up even more so they could profit from a weakend Empire.