and you can always rely on rev. sharpton to swoop in with his anti-racism flag and save the day. i'm wondering... how much does the FCC commission him for monitoring all their air-space? he needs to get a life. he wants to rid our country of racism? he needs to let the issue go and stop calling people out on every single verbal mishap. people say things that they don't necessarily mean. i'm sure rev. sharpton has said some pretty crazy things, but because he is a man of such stature, nobody will call him out on it. give it a rest.
@Onyxium: yea. totally not the same people. if they are calling YOU, they're telemarketers. they call you to sell things to you. the customer service people in India are CUSTOMER SERVICE PEOPLE. YOU call THEM.
@everyone else who complained about outsourcing to india: realize this. the american economy is changing and it will continue to DRASTICALLY change in the next decades to come. the only way you can stop this is by becoming the owner of a company. once you achieve this goal, don't send your simple jobs to other countries. oh wait- it's cheaper.. mortgage rates will probably still be falling and you won't be able to stay in the building your comany is run in. you have two choices: close your business and face bankruptcy, or outsource your customer service for a cheaper price and keep the business. now i'm not saying you necessarily want to do anything about outsourcing, because you understand it's role within its given societies, and of course it's not this black and white.
objectively speaking, i think what message we should get from this is to well, be nicer. how hard must it be for them? some people commented on here that their friends (or even they) worked at a place like this and it was awful. imagine entire populations of young kids going through this every day. how would you feel if you were one of them? and how would you feel towards people who were intolerant of you because you happened to have a terrible job? i'm sure many can relate to this... i'm sure anyone who has worked in the food service has felt this way a couple times. allow me to get off my soap box now... enjoy your days.
the dharma cake is awesome. my friends and i have a LOST night too and i've seen all the episodes... but i didn't get some of the subtle references mentioned up-top. oh well. doesn't change my opinion of the show, though.
here's what i'm wondering... did the judge ask them if they were of a specific religion or did they just come right out and say they were athiests? a part of religious freedom (and this may sound really awful) is kinda like 'don't ask; don't tell.' it goes along the lines of a job interview... they don't ask you what religion you are because it doesn't matter. and if you tell them right out, you face the problem of saying the "wrong" thing. it just doesn't matter.
My friend got pulled over and ticketed in Cleveland for going 55 in a 65. He drives a huge Lincoln Towncar and was in the right lane. everybody else was going around him, as he had no problem with being passed. apparently, if a cop drives up behind you, regardless of whether their lights are on or not, you have to move over to let them pass. my friend stayed in the right lane and waited for the cop to pass him (not knowing this ridiculous law), but instead got pulled over for going too slow and failing to get over into the middle lane. he got pulled over again that day for going too slow, but was not ticketed. now, i can understand why the woman in this article was pulled over.. she could have hurt somebody. but my friend was doing nothing wrong.
what, alec and i can't share the same kind of sarcasm?
i do realize people have every right to be of whatever faith they choose; i can't put that against them. nor can i put against huckabee that he's a minister. but promoting himself as such and promoting his own faith in place of political standing is what i'm against.
"Beyond this, candidates can be of any faith they choose and voters can consider this relevant-good, relevant-bad, or irrelevant, per their choosing." -- i agree; people have the right to believe what they want. "You ill-informed “separation” people want to remove freedom by disallowing candidates on the basis of faith." i'm not ill-informed. i just don't want someone telling me that their belief system is better than mine (not saying mine is any better than theirs).
what, only TWO female geeks?! what about the blog geek? the facebook geek? there are child geeks too.. what about the webkins geek? not to shit on the geek poster, just making an observation.
@andrew: yea, it made me throw-up in my mouth a little. i'm not really surprised by this statistic, more-so apalled that separation of church and state really doesn't exist.
i'm apalled by the majority that it continues to seek protection from the government, yet, fights for democracy as if it's something new and popular. the government doesn't recognize that "we the people" means WE the PEOPLE. i'm hoping that something turns around because as soon as an evangelical baptist preacher makes it to the white house, i'm moving to canada.
@everyone else who complained about outsourcing to india: realize this. the american economy is changing and it will continue to DRASTICALLY change in the next decades to come. the only way you can stop this is by becoming the owner of a company. once you achieve this goal, don't send your simple jobs to other countries. oh wait- it's cheaper.. mortgage rates will probably still be falling and you won't be able to stay in the building your comany is run in. you have two choices: close your business and face bankruptcy, or outsource your customer service for a cheaper price and keep the business. now i'm not saying you necessarily want to do anything about outsourcing, because you understand it's role within its given societies, and of course it's not this black and white.
objectively speaking, i think what message we should get from this is to well, be nicer. how hard must it be for them? some people commented on here that their friends (or even they) worked at a place like this and it was awful. imagine entire populations of young kids going through this every day. how would you feel if you were one of them? and how would you feel towards people who were intolerant of you because you happened to have a terrible job? i'm sure many can relate to this... i'm sure anyone who has worked in the food service has felt this way a couple times. allow me to get off my soap box now... enjoy your days.
question #4: who is she actually marrying here?
question #2: which part of the cake is she going to save in the freezer for them to eat on their year anniversary?
question #3: considering the topic of the cake, will she and her new hubby even make it to their first wedding anniversary?
i do realize people have every right to be of whatever faith they choose; i can't put that against them. nor can i put against huckabee that he's a minister. but promoting himself as such and promoting his own faith in place of political standing is what i'm against.
"Beyond this, candidates can be of any faith they choose and voters can consider this relevant-good, relevant-bad, or irrelevant, per their choosing." -- i agree; people have the right to believe what they want. "You ill-informed “separation” people want to remove freedom by disallowing candidates on the basis of faith." i'm not ill-informed. i just don't want someone telling me that their belief system is better than mine (not saying mine is any better than theirs).
apparently hammer and my boyfriend's sister are on a first-name basis because he holds stock at the company she works for.
i'm apalled by the majority that it continues to seek protection from the government, yet, fights for democracy as if it's something new and popular. the government doesn't recognize that "we the people" means WE the PEOPLE. i'm hoping that something turns around because as soon as an evangelical baptist preacher makes it to the white house, i'm moving to canada.
best part: the look on the guy's face, because he's utterly disappointed that his beer is everywhere else but inside his mug. sad.