Civil Liberties Violations and Entitlement Customer Idiocy
State Bill Would Limit Procreation Assistance — Fort Wayne Journal Gazette — Gays, lesbians and single Hoosiers would be prohibited from using medical science to help have a child under a bill being considered by an interim legislative committee.
I dunno . . . Every day at the restaurant, I see the results of letting any asshole who can figure out how breed willynilly. Mouthbreathing dumbasses come in with packs of skinny, dirty, screaming, poorly-behaved idiot children, and I stand up at my counter, watching, thinking, shouldn’t you have to have permission to breed?
On the other hand, there’s no way any government agency can ever be fit to decide who can have kids and who can’t. I mean, I certainly don’t want Jennifer Granholm (Michigan governor) in charge of who can breed and who can’t. As divided as this country is, there is no way you could ever legislate who is fit to produce children. Hell, even if the whole country was together on the values thing, I still don’t see how we’d all ever agree on who could have kids or not. I expect my decisions on who could have kids would differ from plenty of other reasonable people’s decisions.
This is also one of those “foot-in-the-door” legislations that I would oppose sheerly on principle. It’s one of those “if you give them this inch, they’ll be taking a mile” type of decisions. One sect of society can’t be allowed to make moral decisions for the entire society.
And this travesty of humanity: Annoying Quotes From Sales Clerks Listed — Associated Press — “Uh, that’s not my department.” Ever hear that in a store? Did visions of fiendish violence against the clerk flash through your mind? “Not my department” topped the list of Most Annoying Words from Salesperson’s Mouth, cited by 29 percent, in a poll of shopping mall customers by a retail consulting firm.
What the fuck. No, seriously, what the fuck.
“If it’s not on the rack, we don’t have it”? “I’m new here”? Are these not perfectly good answers to questions? If you ask somebody in a store a question, and they answer with, “I’m sorry, I’m new. I don’t know.”, then the appropriate response is not to get all pissy, it’s to say, “Oh, okay. Who else can I ask?” Like as not, the new person will either direct you to someone who knows the answer, or will go ask someone for you.
Small stores don’t have a lot of backroom space. Even the large grocery stores I’ve worked at didn’t keep a lot in back. If the stock is in the back, they can’t sell it to you, and the point of a store is to sell you crap. It’s what they want to do.
Another one is “I’m on break”. Guess what? In customer service, being on break means not getting paid. It’s also, in some places, the only chance you’ll get to eat, pee, smoke, or whatever, for the next few hours. Demanding that someone help you while they’re on break is just plain rude. Also, chances are that the employee isn’t allowed to do some things while they’re off the clock. For example, at my workplace, if I’m off the clock, I’m not allowed to touch the register. If I haven’t punched in yet, or if I’ve punched out on break, I can’t take your money. It’s company policy. I’d get in trouble for that.
Oh, there’s another one. “That’s the policy.” Those are the rules. If we, the employees, break the rules, we get in trouble, possibly lose our jobs. What makes you, the customer, so damn special, that it’s worth losing my job over? Let me answer that for you: not a goddamn thing. No havee job = no payee bills. That would be bad.
