the chicken pox vaccination is completely unnecessary. it immunizes by inducing the virus- meaning you may get a disease you never would have gotten if you hadn’t taken a medicine to prevent you from getting it. if the shot does not induce a strain of chicken pox, chances are, you probably never would have contracted it, regardless of having the shot.

unless there is a large outbreak of a disease (like say ten to twenty percent of the school), we do not have to notify parents of contagious diseases. for one, it’s a big HIPPAA violation- for two, by the time kids show symptoms, they’ve already exposed everyone, and whoever is going to catch it, has already caught it.

be nice to the people who clean your offices at night. did it a long time ago and one floor was particularly nasty to us- we would get written up if it wasn’t spotless in the morning, but workers who stayed late would re-use emptied trash cans (not their own), refuse to let us vaccuum because “the sound irritated” them, and walked across mopped floors. drank coffee and left cups on tables, talked about us like we weren’t in the room (”i can’t imagine cleaning after people, i wouldn’t be able to look at myself in a mirror, hahaha…”). we would wait until they took cigarette or bathroom breaks and jump on their computers, go to sex sites, and then backspace them to their original page. why? because all websites not on a specific list triggered a screen print in the supervisors office. in the morning, the supervisor would get a printer full of explicit sites accessed by those employees computers. two people got fired. i won’t even comment on things i saw being done to food- but unattended cups at desks were subject to being dunked in dirty toilets and left to dry overnight.

teachers DO talk shit about your kids. they also talk shit about YOU. when your ten year old is telling people she wants to be a stripper, and you come to the office dressed in a miniskirt, tank top, stripper heels, and body glitter, you’re asking for it. remember you’re somebody’s mother and act like it.

fussy dry cleaners is a sweat shop. people work 10, 12 hour days and don’t get breaks. if you do take a break, you become so backed up in work that you get reprimanded. we also laugh at really fat people because their pants stink horribly- when they go up on the press, it’s like noxious fumes hit you in the face. we used to bet on how badly a persons clothes would smell based on body weight.

be nice to people at the deli counter. we can overcharge you when we weigh your food by reducing the weight of the container used for your order. ie, if chicken salad is 6.99 a pound, before we can total we have to subtract say 1.4 ounces for container weight. if we subtract 8 ounces for container weight you get half a pound of free food. but if we subtract say -8 ounces for container weight you will be charged an extra 3.50 for salad- and the scale won’t tell you what we’ve done.it will say you got a pound of salad because it only weighs after we enter the data.

telemarketers who sell magazines also sell playboy, hustler, penthouse, you name it. you just have to ask for it.

telemarketers are people too, who generally cringe every time they pick up a headset. when you refuse to buy, they make less money. want to get one off the phone? agree to buy. a week later someone will call to confirm that you actually want what you’ve bought. say no and it’s canceled- no harm, no foul, and the telemarketer still gets a bonus, about a quarter a pop, but that’s a lot when you get minimum wage or barely more than that.

telemarketers CAN NOT just hang up because you say no. that’s why they keep going. YOU have to hang up on THEM, or they have to try three more times during the call. don’t try to be nice- i’ve done this, and it was nicer if you just hung up and didn’t waste out time- we’d rather call other people than keep trying to sell you something you OBVIOUSLY don’t want. and yes, we are being listened to, which is why we can’t hang up.

telemarketers can give you a fake name- but the name has to be on file with the telemarketing company.

don’t be an ass to telemarketers, or instead of putting you on a “no call” list, they will simply mark you as “call at a different time” and you will be called by another telemarketer. you can get calls everyday for weeks before someone catches on- and when they do, telemarketers can just say they “hit the wrong code” when entering your callback data.

collection agencies have to take whatever you give them. if you make a check to them for a PENNY, they have to cash the check. they can not refuse to take any payment of any amount on any bill, even though they may tell you they can’t accept less than a certain amount. if they refuse to take a payment, then they screw up their own collection case.

kinda long- but, i’ve had a lot of jobs.

I see, here, countless people who lie, cheat, steal, deceive, invade privacy, etc.

People like you, or your bosses who encourage this behavior, are weak, and your parents failed.

Lucky for you there are honest, responsible people who have provided science, technology, public utilities, and works for you and your kind…..perhaps I am being too pesimistic….you will grow up one day, won’t you?

Will you feel proud, lying on your deathbed, knowing that you took so much, but never contributed?