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Alice and the Hatter (Total Rhetoric). After reading this and you still support the Republicans and President Bush, you need to go see the queen, Alice. President Bush and the Republicans have proposed a bill that would do away with overtime for over ½ million American workers. If you have any education and you work for a company, you could find that work over 40 hours per week would be exempt from overtime. Now the Federal Wage Laws require companies to pay overtime for work performed over 40 hours per week at the rate of 1 and ½ times the normal pay rate. If this law is passed, companies could require you to work as many hours over 40 per week as they deem necessary and the worker would not get any pay or compensation for this work. Now, many companies pay overtime to current workers instead of hiring new employees in order to save on paying out benefits such as insurance and workers compensation. The president (The Hatter) believes that by eliminating the law and al

Just another day in Wonderland Alice. WHAT EVERY HAPPENED TO CUSTOMER SERVICE? I have been negligent in updating my blog so let me catch up. The house closes on the 15th of this month and I will be moving into my first apartment in my adult life. I hate to admit it but it is a little scary. Not that I am afraid of living in an apartment but with all the changes. I spent today contacting all the oligopolies “Big Buck Companies” to turn off my services to the old homestead and turned on at the new bedding stable. One of these huge conglomerates with their multi-million dollar CEOs has determined that customer service is a liability to the company and does not produce any revenue. Without naming names, the company to which I speak is known as Verizon. I contacted Verizon to have a new phone line installed with the new speedy DSL. After an hour of trying to get someone on the line and after going through phone tree hell, only to get a busy signal or try your call late

Good Morning my Blog. Well its Thursday and for me a Friday before the big long.... holiday weekend. My brother told me of a bumper sticker he seen that said “If you are not enraged, your not paying attention.” So very true! Yesterday with a stroke of a pin, the president wiped out a two billion dollar industry in the United States. Most of us hate telemarketing and getting those calls just about dinnertime. I must admit that they do drive me crazy. But in West Virginia, it means more loss of jobs and no where this army of unskilled workforce to go. I do not believe that even Walmart can absorb this number of people. The president is now moving on to eliminating overtime and wants to allow businesses to offer comp time in place of overtime. Most people know that this is not good for the worker. First, you will get one-hour comp for one-hour overtime. Now the American worker gets one and one half hours of overtime for all work over forty hours per week of work. To put this