Hard work and hard study are just
two parts of the formula for getting ahead.
Most people do not come from money.
They must rise and go to work daily, get along with the boss, and
maintain civility with fellow employees, all while juggling a spouse, home, and
kids.
That’s right; jobs are more than
just going to work and erasing all personal problems from your mind. Then, after work, seamless switching back
from work mode to home life is expected.
An example would be asking about French fry accompaniments at the
drive-thru window.
Unfortunately, today’s work force
is chock full of training seminar buttinski’s who feel your attitude needs changing.
It doesn’t matter if you are a long-term, stellar employee who deserves
– or have already earned – awards for exceptional service, you likely need
emotional tweaking.
It seems odd that your boss
closely watches the clock when you scoot off to the bathroom, but has nothing
to say when you are mandated to attend stupid, time-wasting “training”
seminars.
These training seminars would
make Karl Marx and Bernie Sanders very proud.
They amount to nothing more than Orwellian mind games to make you a
better person. Sure.
Throughout my career I attended
mandatory “training” for so many goofy things, such as racial sensitivity,
gender sensitivity, ageism sensitivity, cultural appropriation awareness, and
LGBQWERTY or something, training.
In today’s world, non-whites feel
they are being discriminated from attending schools, or getting jobs, or playing
for some sports team. All this,
according to race experts, is the fault of anyone other than the offendee; but I’m
the one who needs awareness training to prevent this from occurring.
It doesn’t matter I grew up in
segregated America
Gender sensitivity is another
good training seminar that helped me not to expect my female boss to make my
coffee or press my shirts. Thank
goodness I was afforded this life-altering guidance.
Cultural appropriation is
something relatively new. This actually
began in the 1950’s when some unknown singer named Elvis Presley began singing
rhythm and blues. Blacks are still complaining
Mr. Presley, a white man, stole their music.
Tragic!
And the gay and lesbian and
whatever other letters have climbed aboard the sensitivity train to legitimize
themselves need addressing. Not to be
left out, this newly-protected class is a bit off-base.
They claim you cannot look at
someone and discern their sexual orientation.
Yet, they demand “equal” rights for something they perceive as a slight.
While on the job, people should
not be discussing their sexual proclivities or activities. Just when and why do we need to protect this
offended group, and from what? That’s
just confusing to me.
And now we are into the fashionable
microagression thing. An example of microagression
is when you are offered to go to lunch for tacos, and you decline. Clearly this is a slam against brown people,
in general, and Mexicans, in particular.
I hope we can solve this one quickly. It’s all so simple.
And those college students who
recently entered the workforce – the ones who were found under their desks when
someone uttered the “R-word” – yes, Republican – are now complaining to their
private and guvment sector jobs bosses.
All those progressive college and
university safe spaces will no longer exist, unless their bosses are weenies
just like their new charges.
I’m not sure when all this
started or how often the average citizen chuckled when political correctness
began bobbing around society like a turd in the punchbowl.
Charlton Heston said, "Political correctness is tyranny with manners. He was right.
