Working in a Call Center

If you work in a telemarketing / call center, you have lots of time to:
1. Make up fictitious company slogans:
Blah Blah the call center company that lowers your expectations one call at
a time.
Blah Blah the call center company that lowers the service bar one call at a time.
2. You also have time to call people you who actually want to know if they are on candid camera?

Call center employees are minor executives in minor corporations.

The Beginning of the End

I firmly believe that when Microsoft created the Excel spreadsheet program, most middle managers lost their minds. What I mean is managers actually believe that if they can put some figures and some words into a spreadsheet they must be true. Somehow spreadsheets have come to mean credibility. And what is even is spreadsheets have became invincible. Whatever an off the wall manager puts into a spreadsheet must be doable, and once something is supposedly doable, in this economy the downstream workers can't say no to doing it. No matter how outrageous or impossible to accomplish the goals are, as set forth in any spreadsheet the worker bees must agree to actually trying to reach these ridiculous goals. Goals used to be attainable and mutually agreed on. Today all middle management has to do is create a spreadsheet or a Word document and all of a sudden all the worker bees have to line up and agree to march into the sunset and commit suicide if they don't reach the absurd middle management goals.

Career Politicians

I am sick and tired of career politicians. Elected officials who act as if their only job is too get themselves re-elected. What has brought anger on my part to a head, is the Democratic Party primary in Pennsylvania between the incumbent Senator Arlen Spector and his challenger Rep. Joe Sestak. What Spector has done is to attack Sestak on minor unimportant points and too attack Sestak's "mental health" and Sestak's allegiance to the United States, even though Sestak served as a three star Admiral in the US Navy.
Arlen Spector has been in the Senate too long, and he needs to be sent home. The founding fathers made a mistake but not including term limits in the original US Constitution and now is the time for the voters of PA to exercise their version of term limits and send Arlen Spector home to Pennsylvania.

What Used Car Salesman Say between talking to Used Car buyers

So, I have been advised I have to blog a few lines each day. So here goes:
Some of these lines were said by others, but I found them funny enough to at least remember to write them down. These were said by various used car salesmen I used to work with:
1. Here comes the Woodall Family. They Woodall have come to the showroom floor but they can't fit into their current car.
2. Down South we use automobile air bag recovery systems for only larger women. Weatherman can predict everything, including tornadoes.
God made whiskey so the Irish would not rule the world.
3. While at a small church in the South during a witness service an Old Man got up and said" I am thank full to the Lord because I had a bowl movement this morning and I feel great."
4. The theory of Relativity is only for people who can tolerate illegal drugs.

The Beer Police

I just finished reading an article about how my PA state legislators just held a hearing about how PA State Police were sent into some bars to check on whether or not all the beer for sale in these bars was registered with the state. Give me a break. Is there no other thing for PA State police to do then to police whether retail beer is registered ?
Stop protecting me from unregistered beer and start protecting me from beer with no taste !!!

My First Thoughts

For years my daughter has been all over me to begin blogging. Well get ready world because I have finally found the psych energy to begin doing the aforementioned blogging.

First, I have never seen American Idol and/or Dancing with the Stars, and I can't understand why anyone would spend any of their precarious time here on Earth watching either of these shows. I know they must entertain some people, but getting entertained is no excuse for mindless activity.

Also why did Ben Stiller make a movie called Greenberg to entertain one person in the world, Woody Allen? And why did I have to waste 17.00 dollars of my money so that Woody Allen could see Greenberg? And to add insult to injury I'm sure that Allen got to see Greenberg for free !