Working At Street Lights

[camp_hazzard]

Hey there... I'm writing here again... I've been busy sleeping and going to work. Work, for the NONE OF YOU who are reading this, is at Tessy Plastics in Elbridge, NY... or sometimes listed as Auburn or Weedsport, NY... It's claimed by several townships, I guess

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[goddamngenius]

"Think about this: If you get drunk all the time while you're working, you can claim disability for alcoholism and go to mandatory treatment... if you have to leave work for "drug related illness" then it's the same deal... but if you just get nabbed on one of these tests for something you did casually a year or so or more before you were even hired, it's grounds for immediate dismissal... so it's okay to have a "problem" with drugs and alcohol in the workplace, but if you are or have been a user who has controled or resolved their issues without therapy or meetings (often chuck full of religious propoganda) then you lose your job... If you get caught with a drug issue at work, claim you have a horrible addiction, I guess... and see if you can get a medical leave...
I hate the way that works out. I really don't think it encourages people to take control of their lives. Sure, I don't want some crack head running the over-head crane at work, but I think there should be some kind of review before tossing people out on their ass because of the results of testing. But hey, I don't know much about the issue at all... I only know that by creating an adult world which is harsh and cold, it encourages the young to live like crazy animals and fuck up as much as possible to get it out of their systems before the "real world" forces them to walk the line for 40 odd years... and of course when they get to that 9-5 life, they learn it's better to just go completely crazy rather than risk a simple small screw up...
Really, I think we've got everybody too damned tense now. Employees are freaked out about their job security, kids look at the future and say "fuck it", and people across the board are just letting things build until they go all out with one big push, rather than sitting down at least a few times in their life and saying, "I don't want this" and walking on... I was raised NEVER to walk until the job or the comittment was done, and that virtue is only so noble for so long... pretty soon, you're hanging yourself. In life, you sometimes try things you're not good at. You sometimes start a thing you don't want to see through... and you only live once, and no amount of nobility is going to give you the time back."

please write a letter to Congress and to the local papers. That's an excellent observation - my T and Y keys fell off my computer, so I have to deliberately press them which fucks with my whole stream of thought wriing processes..... fuck this.

Seriously honey, wrie an angry book that makes people angry at the way hings are. You have a knack for seeing those systems which are detrimental and putting it in a very simple light. And your characters fucking rule. Please please please....