However, my luck ended right then and there, as later that night I did go and get a lottery piece. I bought a Seal scratcher and while singing Kissed by a Rose, I got diddly squat.
It was good while it lasted.
So is it just me, or when companies say they are going “green” do you see it as them just cutting costs and not actually caring about the environment?
Recently my company informed us that they were going “green” by switching us all to paperless paychecks aka Direct Deposit. I don’t really have any problem with this minus the issue of not having a stub easily viewable. However, it seems like too many companies hide behind this projection that they are doing their part saving their environment.
Hotel companies ask you to not have your linen changed, don’t open unnecessary bottles or commodities. And yet they’ll leave daily brochures and advertisements as well as parking tickets, and other what nots.
Retail companies reduce waste by 33% of their products and yet they do not offer recycle bins in their establishments to eliminate unnecessary waste all together.
It’s these kind of short sightings that anger me when companies are trying to put up the visage of actually caring for the planet. It’s all a lie. They aren’t planeteers, they don’t care. They’re just lazy schmucks trying pinch the pennies to maximize their profits.
The funny thing? I wouldn’t care if they maintained the same practices, but just told us whey they were doing it. Quotes like, “We’re cheapskates and want to hold onto those extra few pennies so we can dive into a pool of coins Ducktales style!”
I might even throw in a tip for something like that.
To round out the week, I eventually ended up getting out of Jury Duty. I just had to wait to be interviewed, letting the court here about how I believed I had been mistreated by the justice system. The judge even admitted that in all his years, he had never heard of such actions being leveraged against anyone.
The case would have been boring to sit in on. Some Black Belt beat the snot out of a guy that was sleeping with his girlfriend. Whoopty doo. At least I got paid $15 and some odd cents to spend two hours there this time around.
It just bugged me because not only did it interrupt my whole week, but in my honest opinion, it seems to undermine a lot about America. You know who just be sitting on these juries right now? Anyone and everyone that is collecting an unemployment check. I mean come on! We are already paying them to sit on their asses, instead of paying people measly compensation for interrupting their jobs, why not drag these lazy ass people in and put them to work. It’s what they’re looking for anyways right?
For a long time I’ve felt that we coddle the unemployed too much. Sure, I’ve never been on it myself, but it still makes me angry that people think they are entitled to it without giving anything back. Require unemployment to equal one weekend of the month doing charity work, or beautification. LET’S AT LEAST BETTER SOCIETY.
On a parting note, Borderlands is AMAZING and in a lot of ways, is one of the best games of the year. Combine Diablo and Counter-Strike and then throw it in a Mad Max environment. I think you get where I’m coming from here.
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