Can I has a plow?

I am about tired of news companies creating (or trying to) catchy sound bite slogans for every news story. Ugh. It really irks me to no end they way they churn everything into a hype machine to gain views and hits.  Is it really  as if people who are in the affected areas are not going to check the weather? Maybe they want people in Texas to care.

Having said that, if you are in an area like I am where there is 40″ of snow on the ground with more coming then you may feel the same way I do.  After you spent 3-4 hours digging your car out, you then had to traverse the ice compacted roads that feel like you are driving on the dirt roads in back of Hazzard county.

As I bumped along in the snow I wondered what is so important that companies think they should force their employees to come to work evenwhen the government and state officials urge people to stay off the roads.  I mean, do not people already sacrifice their lives and time (Time that they will never, ever get back) in service to the CORPORATION? Is your time really only worth $7.00 USD an hour? How about $50.00? Ugh, don’t get me started on the route of workers’ rights and public education in this country . . . I am jumping off track here.

There are over 500,000 tons of snow that need to be removed. Crews are running out of places to pile it and just being another annoying chucklehead on the road is going to get in their way.

It puts it in perspective how much corporations care about you.

Of course, everyone is driving slow enough that if you hit the likelihood of death is slim, but why not put your property in danger so you can make it to work and file a TPS report, stock the shelves with the no returns of DVDs at the Blockbuster that is still open, or shlep that Ralph Lauren button down to all of the 2 people who will be dumb enough to shop at this time!Well, they make you do it! Why? Profit baby, pure profit. Granted not your profit or salary.  You will not see more money because of things like this. The profits will not trickle down or hit your .25 cent/3% raise this year. Times are tough out there you know . . .

Look, am I not anti-capitalism. (Though maybe I should be.) I understand the bottom line matters and that every penny counts in an Enron/AIG run world. I understand that it’s okay to bone over workers’ pensions and 401k’s and then take the government’s bail out tax money and run into the hills giggling with glee.  I know every penny counts, but when and where should be draw a line of common sense? I am sure you sense my sarcasm there. (And if you didn’t, then you need to go to reading skool. )

AmeriKans seem to have this notion of a “can do” attitude. And it is this blind adherence to things always working out and that leads to a lot of entries on FailBlog.  You know, maybe “Yes we can” but has anyone though that maybe sometimes we shouldn’t? I am not tying to perpetuate the idea that “it takes a villiage.” I really do not conern myself with that. For me, it is more like we are all stuck in this same stupid villiage so we should all behave in ways that do not annoy a lot of other people.

I guess if you work at a Khol’s or a Starbucks then you need to physically be there so people shell out the 2.19 for a cup of joe. If you weren’t there, then people would not buy coffee and you would be out of a job, but it just seems to me that no one is generally thinking on this one.

You know what it is? I hate snow. I hate Frosty, White Christmases, Frost Penguin’s stage in Mega Man, and Level 4 in Super Mario Brothers 2.