Something Stinks......

Corporations are a lot like Vultures. From the 30 thousand foot level they look beautiful, graceful and not so big but when you see them up close they are pretty hard on the nose and the eyes.

Don't get me wrong, they do have purpose. They make a lot of money but at what expense? There are CEO's that make millions of dollars every year at our expense. We put in the hard work and time. We take the heat for mistakes and short comings of the company but there that CEO is far above the trouble on their way to their yacht in the Pacific.

You as the regular population want and even need to believe that what you are working for is a better company. You want to exceed their expectation. Many of us will even preach to our coworkers of the glories of doing a better job. We will use buzz words like focus. We have focus groups. We have "round" table meetings so that every one believes that they are equal and they can speak their minds in which you are actually being culled out secretly for your forwardness and they list it as being unprofessional. 

You can never be creative or imaginative because they have their system of doing things. They want you to sell the populace a program or a concept that will leak small change out of the clients bank accounts and credit cards in an unrealistic 4.5 minutes. 

I ask you this question. Would you trust a person that you just met and give them $12.95 out of your hard earned money every month because they served you and speedily blurted out something about monitoring you credit file?

I wouldn't.

Here is another question. If you had a man or woman that showed up an hour early every work day, worked hard, tried new ways to make the job easier for everyone, was friendly a well thought of by his coworkers, if he called another coworker dude, brother or man, would you fire him?

That is exactly what happen to a good friend of mine. He was blind sided last week by a huge corporation that if I spoke the name would be recognized immediately. 

He told them that he didn't understand. He asked them if he did his job, they agreed that he did. He asked them why they were firing him and they said that they had "heard" that he had made some remarks that were deemed unprofessional.

He told them that they were stepping on his Freedom of Speech rights and the Constitution of the United States by doing this and they simply smiled at him and said they didn't care about his Constitutional rights! 

He sat in that office with his manager and her boss as they humiliated him and singled him out.

He was a veteran of the United States Army and a Senior Citizen.

Tears flowed down his face as he left their office and was removed from the building by security.

Is this right? Is this why he served his country so that this could happen?

I ask you. What can we do to keep this from happening to another human being?

   Thank You, Mothers!

I wanted to take the time today to thank all of the Mothers for what you do.

I want to thank you for making the choice to have that child. Even though it was not the easy choice it was the best choice and the right thing to do.

 I want to thank you for all of the pain and anguish that you endured as well as the cravings for all of their weird things thru out your pregnancy.

 I wanted to thank you for the endless hours that you spent in labor, breathing and eating ice until you thought that you would go insane.

I want to thank you for the time that you took, patiently teaching us how to be us. Teaching us to comb our hair, tie our shoes, brush our teeth, clean our rooms, take out the garbage. 

Thank you for the discipline that you gave us in love so that we wouldn't do stupid things. 

Thank you for feeding us even when we spit it out and threw up on your best dress. 

Thank you for playing with us and allowing us to use our imaginations. 

Thank you for letting us fall so that you could pick us up and kiss away our tears.

Thank you for letting us go free, to make mistakes, to fly! 

Thanks for being there when our hearts hurt from the crush of that first break up.

Thanks for your love even when we do unlovely things.

Thanks for  cuddling us and making us feel better when we were sick.

Thanks for taking us to Church even when we didn't want to.

Thanks for praying for me.

Thanks for reading the Bible to me.

Thanks for taking food out of your mouth so that I could have sustenance. 

Thanks for all the great cooking!

We love you so much, Mom.

This is an appreciation to all Mothers but especially to my wonderful Mother. 

                                Jewel Irene Peters/Thornton.