My hatred of the word “utilize” goes back to my Army days, but I’ll skip that and just put in a plug for Big Daddy Cool’s blog for the underutilized worker. The writing’s great, the posts are long, the site is fun, the attitude is good, even though he hasn’t worked in over 6 years (well not in a real job anyway), and this post where he actually defends American autoworkers in particular is full of fire, ire, and insight.
Here’s a quote: (Jolie-884782 is someone he found on the Internet sparring with someone else)
Jolie-884782:
I would love to see nothing more then you out of job.
That last comment is the most unpatriotic thing I have ever seen or read in my life! What kind of a person do you have to be to wish that someone, ANYONE would lose their job. What Jolie-884782 doesn’t get is that it doesn’t stop with the loss of a job. What Jolie-884782 is saying is that they want everyone at GM, Ford and Chrysler to lose their jobs, to lose their health insurance, to lose their homes, for their children to go hungry and for their loved ones to be put in harm’s way. That is what Jolie-884782 is really saying. What kind of a person do you have to be to actually wish that on innocent children?
Actually you don’t have to be a person – you just have to be a monster.
Yeah, and there’s lots of people like that, happy to see people who belong to organizations they don’t like out of jobs.
Oh and about the blog, there is one problem. The text is very light and hard to read.
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Thanks for the plug Jack. It’s good to see that my words are actually reaching someone out there and that they are willing to spread the word.
By the way, I took some steps to darken the text so it should be a little easier to read from now on.
Great. It was hard to read. I’ll come back and read more of your blog. I’m in Philly right now. No cheese steaks, so far.