One of my aunts had the good fortune to fall into some good fortune. They bought a factory under a serious sweetheart deal, big customers already lined up, etc. Last Thanksgiving, my Aunt was going on and on about how one of her employees (Carlos or something) had a big family and couldn't really afford Christmas, and how she was going to buy the whole family Christmas presents.
Do you see where I'm going with that? Yeah. I wanted to yell "MAYBE IF YOU ARE HIS EMPLOYER AND YOU ARE SO FUCKING CONCERNED THAT HE CAN'T AFFORD CHRISTMAS MAYBE YOU SHOULD GIVE HIM A FUCKING RAISE???? EH???? HOLIDAY BONUS???? HMM????"
But I got myself under control. It took me a few months to really recover from that though, to remind myself how much I love her.
So yeah. I don't know any more about this fiasco than you've written, but I can identify with seeing things that way, and the rage that it brings.
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Date: 2006-06-03 03:57 am (UTC)Exactly.
One of my aunts had the good fortune to fall into some good fortune. They bought a factory under a serious sweetheart deal, big customers already lined up, etc. Last Thanksgiving, my Aunt was going on and on about how one of her employees (Carlos or something) had a big family and couldn't really afford Christmas, and how she was going to buy the whole family Christmas presents.
Do you see where I'm going with that? Yeah. I wanted to yell "MAYBE IF YOU ARE HIS EMPLOYER AND YOU ARE SO FUCKING CONCERNED THAT HE CAN'T AFFORD CHRISTMAS MAYBE YOU SHOULD GIVE HIM A FUCKING RAISE???? EH???? HOLIDAY BONUS???? HMM????"
But I got myself under control. It took me a few months to really recover from that though, to remind myself how much I love her.
So yeah. I don't know any more about this fiasco than you've written, but I can identify with seeing things that way, and the rage that it brings.