OK so I have been gone a long time. But here I am back with my id and password. Proof that their is a deity.
More OLD bitchiness to follow. :)
Wednesday, January 18, 2012
Saturday, April 17, 2010
On Being Self Employed
While at the hair salon (a 4 week interval event) this bitch just happened to see a copy of Bloombergs' Business Week. The cover story was titled 'The Permanent Temporary Workforce'. On the cover is a picture of a female executive with a shoulder bag over one shoulder, a skewed corporate badge around her neck and a potted plant in her right hand. The picture is completed by little 'blurbs' about being self employed complete with linear pointers to each of the items in the shoulder bag as well as various body parts of this female.
I would like to respond to this offensiveness by addressing each 'blurb' and the body part or accessory associated with it. Mind you this is MY response and is not intended to speak for anyone else except me.
#1 blurb points to the females head and says 'higher rates of depression and anxiety'.
Depression? Anxiety? Hardly. As a self employed person I do not have to deal with the workplace bully or the executive that jumps up and down on a table in a client meeting. (Really happened.) I don't have to worry about some bosses nephew standing at my desk trying to have me his assignments to do and then getting PO'd and running to the boss and I end up in trouble because of his lazy ass.
#2 blurb points to a bottle of red vicks cough something in the shoulder bag and says 'pays for own health insurance'.
Health insurance? Is that what they called that rat ass plan that my husband put me on when we were married? The rat ass plan that had us going to this dentist whose office looked like a roach motel? The health insurance plan that had a 5.00 an hour customer service person tell me 'Well, you had better get this straight with your doctor, we are no longer paying for the brand name of this hormone. You are going to have to make do with the generic'. Health insurance? That rat ass plan that raises premiums every six months by zip code even if I have had no claims?
Children....please.
Speaking of doctors how about the OPTHAMOLOGIST that tried to kill me by giving me timolol when I was being treated for the glaucoma that SHE SAID I HAD, that subsequent evaluations by a real doctor that actually ran tests to measure my cornea show that I did not have? This same WOMAN doctor in Irving Texas also got angry with me for building up resistance to medications for the disease that I did not have and charged me when my husband too me back after using the timolol and was in occular migraine.
How about the GP that was SO CONCERNED about me getting a mammogram that she refused to write me a prescription for my hormones until I got the mammogram and then neglected to give me a prescription for the hormones when she sent me the letter informing me that the girls were just fine. That Miss Thang is in Flower Mound Texas.
I have no health insurance. I don't want health insurance. Since I have not had health insurance I take better care of myself and monitor my health with yearly blood work from DirectLabs.com. We have a medical investment account managed by my husband and I am able to get discounts for paying by credit card and some AA miles as well. Screw health insurance.
#3 blurb Zero sick days. How many people use their sick days for play days? Enough said. If my ass is that sick I will take my laptop to bed with me. As a matter of fact, since I am agile and mobile, I can take all my work on an external hard drive and work from anyplace I please.
#4 No Paid Vacation. See #3. I can work anyplace anywhere I want to be, that means on vacation as well.
#5 blurb 26% of US workers. Looks like more people are getting smart, to me that is.
#6 blurb No company funded retirement plan. OH!!! You mean that I don't have that crap stock that you want me to buy while you sell every share you have???? Happiness and joy that I do not have to participate in the company retirement plan that pushes under performing mutual funds and charges more in fees than interest earned if you go to cash. I get the Scottrade accounts and hubby who sits at the computer all day and trades and manages my money.
#7 blurb Easy to lay off, no severance. Oh no....it's easy for me to kick your non-paying pain in the ass client self to the curb.
#8 blurb No fixed occupancy costs (this one points to the plant). Excuse me, what part of 'I don't want to be chained to the crappy steel desk in the cramped cubicle do you not understand'? As a gunslinger I travel the world on everyone elses' money and take my office with me. Why would I want to 'clock in and out', get 30 minutes for lunch and have someone have an apoplexy fit if I posted on FaceBook or Twitter?
Bottom line. Bloomberg.....get a life. Not everyone in this employment situation is whining and crying.
Signed, Happy in Texas
I would like to respond to this offensiveness by addressing each 'blurb' and the body part or accessory associated with it. Mind you this is MY response and is not intended to speak for anyone else except me.
#1 blurb points to the females head and says 'higher rates of depression and anxiety'.
Depression? Anxiety? Hardly. As a self employed person I do not have to deal with the workplace bully or the executive that jumps up and down on a table in a client meeting. (Really happened.) I don't have to worry about some bosses nephew standing at my desk trying to have me his assignments to do and then getting PO'd and running to the boss and I end up in trouble because of his lazy ass.
#2 blurb points to a bottle of red vicks cough something in the shoulder bag and says 'pays for own health insurance'.
Health insurance? Is that what they called that rat ass plan that my husband put me on when we were married? The rat ass plan that had us going to this dentist whose office looked like a roach motel? The health insurance plan that had a 5.00 an hour customer service person tell me 'Well, you had better get this straight with your doctor, we are no longer paying for the brand name of this hormone. You are going to have to make do with the generic'. Health insurance? That rat ass plan that raises premiums every six months by zip code even if I have had no claims?
Children....please.
Speaking of doctors how about the OPTHAMOLOGIST that tried to kill me by giving me timolol when I was being treated for the glaucoma that SHE SAID I HAD, that subsequent evaluations by a real doctor that actually ran tests to measure my cornea show that I did not have? This same WOMAN doctor in Irving Texas also got angry with me for building up resistance to medications for the disease that I did not have and charged me when my husband too me back after using the timolol and was in occular migraine.
How about the GP that was SO CONCERNED about me getting a mammogram that she refused to write me a prescription for my hormones until I got the mammogram and then neglected to give me a prescription for the hormones when she sent me the letter informing me that the girls were just fine. That Miss Thang is in Flower Mound Texas.
I have no health insurance. I don't want health insurance. Since I have not had health insurance I take better care of myself and monitor my health with yearly blood work from DirectLabs.com. We have a medical investment account managed by my husband and I am able to get discounts for paying by credit card and some AA miles as well. Screw health insurance.
#3 blurb Zero sick days. How many people use their sick days for play days? Enough said. If my ass is that sick I will take my laptop to bed with me. As a matter of fact, since I am agile and mobile, I can take all my work on an external hard drive and work from anyplace I please.
#4 No Paid Vacation. See #3. I can work anyplace anywhere I want to be, that means on vacation as well.
#5 blurb 26% of US workers. Looks like more people are getting smart, to me that is.
#6 blurb No company funded retirement plan. OH!!! You mean that I don't have that crap stock that you want me to buy while you sell every share you have???? Happiness and joy that I do not have to participate in the company retirement plan that pushes under performing mutual funds and charges more in fees than interest earned if you go to cash. I get the Scottrade accounts and hubby who sits at the computer all day and trades and manages my money.
#7 blurb Easy to lay off, no severance. Oh no....it's easy for me to kick your non-paying pain in the ass client self to the curb.
#8 blurb No fixed occupancy costs (this one points to the plant). Excuse me, what part of 'I don't want to be chained to the crappy steel desk in the cramped cubicle do you not understand'? As a gunslinger I travel the world on everyone elses' money and take my office with me. Why would I want to 'clock in and out', get 30 minutes for lunch and have someone have an apoplexy fit if I posted on FaceBook or Twitter?
Bottom line. Bloomberg.....get a life. Not everyone in this employment situation is whining and crying.
Signed, Happy in Texas
Friday, December 18, 2009
A Big Change
The truth has finally reared its' ugly head:
A bitch is too cool and too intelligent for Microsoft Based computer technology. Therefore a bitches' husband is by association 'too cool' for Microsoft based computer technology as well.
A bitch and her family are going the Apple route.
I get a MacBook Air plus accessories and hubby darling gets a new iMac OMG WTF how big is that damn screen desktop and assorted other gadgetry to trade his stocks on every day.
2010 is going to be a fun year.
A bitch is too cool and too intelligent for Microsoft Based computer technology. Therefore a bitches' husband is by association 'too cool' for Microsoft based computer technology as well.
A bitch and her family are going the Apple route.
I get a MacBook Air plus accessories and hubby darling gets a new iMac OMG WTF how big is that damn screen desktop and assorted other gadgetry to trade his stocks on every day.
2010 is going to be a fun year.
Just DO IT Already...
A bitch has outdone herself this time.
Stopped a serious aircraft export because some silly assed men did not believe a bitch when she said to TEST that damn CVR & DFDR batteries. Worse than that, they read the scrap date and all the dumb asses canceled the card(s). Oh well ....when a bitch tells your ass that this shit is on the schedule, make like Nike and 'JUST DO IT!'
Of course no one bothered to ask a bitch this question, but the silly asses asked every other dumb question on the planet.
Stopped a serious aircraft export because some silly assed men did not believe a bitch when she said to TEST that damn CVR & DFDR batteries. Worse than that, they read the scrap date and all the dumb asses canceled the card(s). Oh well ....when a bitch tells your ass that this shit is on the schedule, make like Nike and 'JUST DO IT!'
Of course no one bothered to ask a bitch this question, but the silly asses asked every other dumb question on the planet.
Tuesday, November 17, 2009
Rage Against The Machine
For the past year I have just been trying to keep both my ass (read: household) and tech start up breathing. Just like everyone else out there as well. Even though things have been tight, I have always made all of my credit card payments on time and in full. Since I use these for groceries, gas and whatever to get my airline miles that I use to fly to see the daughter get married or meet with software team, it's important to me to treat these cards like cash and always stay on top of my budget. So, one may infer, that at the worst, I am a creditworthy customer who pays bills on time.
However, it seems that Citibank has decided that since I do pay off my card each month then I surely would not mind it if they raised my interest rate to 23.99%. Citibank fails to realize that the only reason that I have this card is for American Airlines AAdvantage miles. What to do? Canceling an account that I have had for 15 years will just ding my credit score, so I had to find an alternative. I did: American Express. Platinum, Plum and Blue. Amex figured out that if you give great service people will pay to carry your cards. So now I earn points for miles with AMEX platinum and blue and get 1.5% cash back if I pay my Plum card balance off within 10 days of the statement. Easy to do with Bill Pay.
So Citibank, when I pay off the 50.00 fast food balance every month, remember that it used to be 1500.00. You made more on merchant fees on 1500.00 than 50.00. Pretty good since you are a zombie bank anyway.
...while I am at it...
Has anyone noticed that Sarah Palin has the idea that she and Jesus are going to 'take back America?' My first question is 'Where did America go, and who has it?' Maybe Eric Prince of the XE (formerly known as Blackwater) will step in and help Sarah out when Jesus declines to attend the party.
Much ado about not a damn thing is being made about the end of the world December 21, 2012. One hopes that the right wing fundy wackos will go forth into their caves and just stay there. We all know when the world has come to an end: When there is NO MORE INTERNET. At that point, get out the grill, some steaks, make a salad and pour the wine.
Goldman Sachs says they are doing Gods' work. Satan is upset because he feels he should have all the credit and God himself has not weighed in since no bolts of lightning or massive flooding have hit 85 Broad Street in NYC.
Jim Cramer is still making Mad Money of course most of us are 'mad' since we don't have any disposable income (unless you count the grocery money) to invest these days.
GMAC is still a zombie bank even if they did change the name to Ally. WTF is with that???
As long as I can have a coffee I know life is still good. Life is pretty damn good right now. Finances are tighter than twistie ties on a bread wrapper but we are all healthy and the shih tzus are fine and fancy, grandkids and kids are doing well.
...and I sleep in on Sundays now.
...more coffee please???
Oh and Fuck the Machine.
However, it seems that Citibank has decided that since I do pay off my card each month then I surely would not mind it if they raised my interest rate to 23.99%. Citibank fails to realize that the only reason that I have this card is for American Airlines AAdvantage miles. What to do? Canceling an account that I have had for 15 years will just ding my credit score, so I had to find an alternative. I did: American Express. Platinum, Plum and Blue. Amex figured out that if you give great service people will pay to carry your cards. So now I earn points for miles with AMEX platinum and blue and get 1.5% cash back if I pay my Plum card balance off within 10 days of the statement. Easy to do with Bill Pay.
So Citibank, when I pay off the 50.00 fast food balance every month, remember that it used to be 1500.00. You made more on merchant fees on 1500.00 than 50.00. Pretty good since you are a zombie bank anyway.
...while I am at it...
Has anyone noticed that Sarah Palin has the idea that she and Jesus are going to 'take back America?' My first question is 'Where did America go, and who has it?' Maybe Eric Prince of the XE (formerly known as Blackwater) will step in and help Sarah out when Jesus declines to attend the party.
Much ado about not a damn thing is being made about the end of the world December 21, 2012. One hopes that the right wing fundy wackos will go forth into their caves and just stay there. We all know when the world has come to an end: When there is NO MORE INTERNET. At that point, get out the grill, some steaks, make a salad and pour the wine.
Goldman Sachs says they are doing Gods' work. Satan is upset because he feels he should have all the credit and God himself has not weighed in since no bolts of lightning or massive flooding have hit 85 Broad Street in NYC.
Jim Cramer is still making Mad Money of course most of us are 'mad' since we don't have any disposable income (unless you count the grocery money) to invest these days.
GMAC is still a zombie bank even if they did change the name to Ally. WTF is with that???
As long as I can have a coffee I know life is still good. Life is pretty damn good right now. Finances are tighter than twistie ties on a bread wrapper but we are all healthy and the shih tzus are fine and fancy, grandkids and kids are doing well.
...and I sleep in on Sundays now.
...more coffee please???
Oh and Fuck the Machine.
Sunday, August 02, 2009
Why I Quit Organized Religion
...don't get me wrong. My faith is intact...it's just left the psycho ward...and took me with it.
Free your mind...sooner or later your ass will follow. I can't remember who I need to ascribe that to but whoever you are 'thank you'. I started freeing my mind about a year ago, reading 'A New Earth' by Eckhart Tolle; then broke with the religious right and voted for Obama.
Now since then this bitch has been suffering through all manner of racist, bigoted garbage in her email box from a retired pastors wife, a current elders wife and other various and assorted sundry so called christian brethern. Scared white folks mad because a black man had the nerve to get elected President of the US of A.
Here is my problem. These people sit in church every Sunday, happy as all get out to call on the Lord and worship and confess their sins (except the emailing kind...) and then revert to some otherworld neuro-psychotic state of mind when it comes to our President. I finally figured out why these people are in church. They are there for the get-your-ass-out-of-jail-free-card. After all, we are taught that Jesus died for our sins...all of them. So people are certainly taking advantage of that by participating willfully in the small-church-group-psychosis-about-the-President, not realizing the damage they do to the very people they are supposed to care about.
There is nothing more evil and disgusting than a born again christian with an ego the size of Jupiter vomiting all over other people.
Free at last
Free at last
Thank God Almighty
I am free at last.
Free your mind...sooner or later your ass will follow. I can't remember who I need to ascribe that to but whoever you are 'thank you'. I started freeing my mind about a year ago, reading 'A New Earth' by Eckhart Tolle; then broke with the religious right and voted for Obama.
Now since then this bitch has been suffering through all manner of racist, bigoted garbage in her email box from a retired pastors wife, a current elders wife and other various and assorted sundry so called christian brethern. Scared white folks mad because a black man had the nerve to get elected President of the US of A.
Here is my problem. These people sit in church every Sunday, happy as all get out to call on the Lord and worship and confess their sins (except the emailing kind...) and then revert to some otherworld neuro-psychotic state of mind when it comes to our President. I finally figured out why these people are in church. They are there for the get-your-ass-out-of-jail-free-card. After all, we are taught that Jesus died for our sins...all of them. So people are certainly taking advantage of that by participating willfully in the small-church-group-psychosis-about-the-President, not realizing the damage they do to the very people they are supposed to care about.
There is nothing more evil and disgusting than a born again christian with an ego the size of Jupiter vomiting all over other people.
Free at last
Free at last
Thank God Almighty
I am free at last.
Sunday, July 05, 2009
What NOT to Do If You Are in a Position of Responsibility
This self employed and small business owner has had it.
Sick and tired of working for people who manage by riding the gravy train and then so something when things get 'interesting'. The problem is what they do: scream, jump up and down, blame everyone else, blah blah and more blah and blame and whining and victim hood.
"They haven't made their lease payments in six months!"
Wah and more wah. Do you think that maybe a proactive manager would have CALLED the lessee and DISCUSSED the situation with them? When they missed the FIRST PAYMENT????? Maybe they would have...but not this bunch! I have never seen a greater display of sloth in all my life.
As someone who believes in MANAGING their daily shit, this makes me crazy. Fortunately, people understand that when I represent my crazies, I am not crazy and we get things done.
Sick and tired of working for people who manage by riding the gravy train and then so something when things get 'interesting'. The problem is what they do: scream, jump up and down, blame everyone else, blah blah and more blah and blame and whining and victim hood.
"They haven't made their lease payments in six months!"
Wah and more wah. Do you think that maybe a proactive manager would have CALLED the lessee and DISCUSSED the situation with them? When they missed the FIRST PAYMENT????? Maybe they would have...but not this bunch! I have never seen a greater display of sloth in all my life.
As someone who believes in MANAGING their daily shit, this makes me crazy. Fortunately, people understand that when I represent my crazies, I am not crazy and we get things done.
Thursday, January 01, 2009
Bye Bye 2008 Hello 2009
Somehow this new year does not feel so new and so fresh.
As I was working out this AM (people that stay HOME on New Years' Eve can do that) FOX news channel was on the tv monitor and of course the big news is the attack on Gaza by Israel. After months of effectively blocking supply routes, (the reason for the Hamas rockets), Israel launched the attack that they started planning six months ago. Who knew? Israel has started a genocide against the Palenstinans and FOX news wants the evangelical right to 'stand with Israel' by emailing and calling in.
Hey let's all stand for G-E-N-O-C-I-D-E. Way to be a good christian these days in the good ole' US of A
I have a home in a safe neighborhhod. I have food and clothing and money. I am blessed that my son, shot in the head during a car jacking and left for dead in the spring is now fully recovered and starting college in one week. No one has declared war on me, and no one is trying to exterminate me.
Me and my life, the Palestinians and theirs. The inequality is staggering.
What I want for 2009 is:
A world where children go to sleep in their own beds with full stomachs.
A world where gender or nationality is not an excuse for attack.
A world that provides an equal opportunity financial system.
A world that provides food, education, medical care and housing for its' poor.
A world where religious fundamentalists don't run the governments of any country.
A world whose different cultures and societies respect and give equal rights to women.
A world where people of different religious backgrounds can live in peace as meighbors without having to worry that their mosques or churches or other places of worship will be burned to the ground by mobs incited by the local politicians.
A world where everyones' place is theirs and theirs alone.
Not the world that we have inherited as of January 1, 2009.
As I was working out this AM (people that stay HOME on New Years' Eve can do that) FOX news channel was on the tv monitor and of course the big news is the attack on Gaza by Israel. After months of effectively blocking supply routes, (the reason for the Hamas rockets), Israel launched the attack that they started planning six months ago. Who knew? Israel has started a genocide against the Palenstinans and FOX news wants the evangelical right to 'stand with Israel' by emailing and calling in.
Hey let's all stand for G-E-N-O-C-I-D-E. Way to be a good christian these days in the good ole' US of A
I have a home in a safe neighborhhod. I have food and clothing and money. I am blessed that my son, shot in the head during a car jacking and left for dead in the spring is now fully recovered and starting college in one week. No one has declared war on me, and no one is trying to exterminate me.
Me and my life, the Palestinians and theirs. The inequality is staggering.
What I want for 2009 is:
A world where children go to sleep in their own beds with full stomachs.
A world where gender or nationality is not an excuse for attack.
A world that provides an equal opportunity financial system.
A world that provides food, education, medical care and housing for its' poor.
A world where religious fundamentalists don't run the governments of any country.
A world whose different cultures and societies respect and give equal rights to women.
A world where people of different religious backgrounds can live in peace as meighbors without having to worry that their mosques or churches or other places of worship will be burned to the ground by mobs incited by the local politicians.
A world where everyones' place is theirs and theirs alone.
Not the world that we have inherited as of January 1, 2009.
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