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19 Nov 2004 By

I thought of my friend Carla who is a flush-with-your-foot kinda gal, when I read this on automating the public bathroom. Premature evacuation. Heh.

I’m thinking it’s only a matter of time before internet access becomes a public utitlity. Iowa (of all places), is going for the fiber.

As economic times get leaner, I think some companies are probably cutting back on the goodies they give their employees, but non-traditional work situations like naps, telecommuting, flex time, etc., are getting more and more popular.

  • http://www.shastamacnasty.com/blog.html Shasta MacNasty

    Yeah, those things are great, but you can’t necessarily take those to the bank. And those things can get cut or terminated at the drop of a hat. I’m saying this as I think about an article I read in the WSJ last week about how companies are suing retirees so they don’t have to pay for their health insurance. Ya hear me? They are suing individual people knowing they could never afford to fight back so they can take their insurance away. What adds further insult is that some of these people negotiated lower pay during their working years so they could be provided insurance during retirement. The money in your paycheck is the only thing they can with you. Negotiate for more insurance, more days off, etc. in lieu of a higher salary, and you could get royally screwed. Right, because those paychecks we get are so big..ugh! Four more years of this crap…

  • http://www.swirlspice.com Erica

    Now that is beyond fucked up. That is so lowdown! Between that and now people being screwed out of their overtime pay… Sheesh.

  • http://coconnell.blogspot.com Casey

    Okay, when you said premature evacuation, I thought you meant that people go doo-doo before they could get firmly placed over the toilet hole. As a fecal management professional, I’ve had to clean too many outhouses where that form of freecalating occurred. I hate my job.

  • http://www.swirlspice.com Erica

    freecalating

    !?!?!?!?

  • http://www.dawnpennington.com dawn

    Hell, at my ex-job, I was the only one not hopped up on Prozac nor curled up under my desk. I thought all workplaces offered naps and legal narcotics? LOL