Comments | uvula_fr_b4: Why I'm glad to have had MLK Day off in 2013.

uvula_fr_b4

Why I'm glad to have had MLK Day off in 2013.

Jan 21, 2013 23:01

When I heard my youngest refer to President Obama's swearing-in as the "inniggeration," I realized that, had my company been open today, I would've very likely heard the same unlovely phrase from at least three or four of my co-workers (not including a couple of my bosses); even money that at least one of them would've coupled it with describing ( Read more... )

politics, domestic bliss, prejudice, decline & fall of the human race

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tabby_of_doom January 23 2013, 06:11:33 UTC

Erm...silence is golden for some things.

On the other hand: HOLY CRAP! THEY TOOK HOW MUCH OUT OF MY SOCIAL SECURITY TAX THIS MONTH?!?!?!

I hate my paycheck.

uvula_fr_b4 January 23 2013, 17:48:01 UTC

Yeah, the payroll "tax holiday" ended, so everybody's payroll taxes went back up by 2%. OTOH, my employer has futzed with their insurance plans and medical expense accounts, so it actually balances out for me, somewhat -- so far (until there's another tax hike, of course), even with the much higher family deductible, and the extra simoleons dedicated to my medical expense account to cover same.

Don't know if there ever really was a time or place where people would keep their prejudices under their damn hats. I'm obliged to listen to the welter of ethnic hatreds and nutbar conspiracy theories that my co-workers subscribe to (one of whom is stockpiling AR-15s against the coming ZOMBIE APOCALYPSE; and how nice for her that the Discovery Channel has just premiered a show titled just that...) and practice my poker face and stoic silence, neither of which traits I excel at.

Yet, if I went on one of my rants about wishing that the entire human race would pack it in and give the lemurs, cockroaches, or transmissible spongiform ( ... )