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Pet store tale, true or not?

I came across this on an internet forum where people were revealing the ‘nasty unknowns’ of jobs they have had in the past.

“Pet shops only sell 2/3 of their puppies before they get too old, become less desireable and therefore less profitable. So, every quarter when The Puppy Truck arrives with new replacement pups, the older ones are loaded on the truck and returned to the breeders to be “recycled” into feed for something else. If it was widely known that all pet shops who sell puppies participated in this you can imagine the results. Therefore The Puppy Truck is designed to hide what it is. It’s a clean white unmarked semi on the outside but stainless steel wall to wall and floor to ceiling inside with small cages along the walls. No lights inside. The sound of three dozen barking, yowling, crying 8 week old pups in that metal box is beyond description. The drivers arrive at the stores after hours to do the swap. They have keys. No employees are -ever- told when they will come due to the fact they love animals and would likely quit en masse if they knew what was taking place. In fact as a rule they are not told about any of this. They order new pups from a breeders FAX sheet and the pups come and go without warning. Only the owner/manager knows and they don’t talk. ”

Do you buy it?

(P.S. Yahoo suggested I put this in Pets>Fish)
” You would also have to be a WEIRD FREAK to wanna kill animals on purpose” we do kill animals for meat. When we have livestock that is unfit to use for human food (like they are too old to be good meat) we grind them up and use them as protein additives in animal feed.

If someone is so heartless to run a puppymill keeping an adult mother in a small pen constantly churning out fresh puppies to sell, do you really think they’d balk at ‘disposing’ of puppies too old to be sold?

Do you think every puppy in a pet-store is eventually sold? Do you think the puppy store brings their too old puppies to the humane society animal shelters?

There are many products like magazines and newspapers and many fresh vegetables, where they only sell 2/3rds and the rest pass their ‘freshness date’. The companies price the items so the 2/3rds that are sold pay for the 1/3 that expires. Do you think that doesn’t happen for puppies?

Parents who can’t control their anger?

I feel like my parents can’t control their anger.

All my life, when my older siblings were children, and since he knew my mother, my dad has been angry and known to have fits of rage. I remember him throwing a chair when I was about three. And he screams, punches walls, breaks things, and generally scares me. Because of that I don’t really like him and have little of a relationship with him. Now that I’m 16 I appericate him for taking care of my family and all that and he’s not as scary anymore.

He gets mad at small things and blows up on them, and when him and my mom are drinking they fight which is what usually leads to him get mad, goes somewhere in the house alone, my mom bothers him, he starts screaming, busting a wall or something, and my mom crying. They’ve been close to getting a divorce.

My mom on the other hand always has to talk loud. Like she gets annoyed with my dad or is proven wrong and she starts almost yelling. In general she talks loud to us when she’s trying to control us and tell us what to do. She gets annoyed with small things. She just emptied the garbage and was outside, than she comes in slamming things, and starts yelling at me how it’s pretty much my fault there are rats in the garage because of the recycling bins we have, and I enforce recyciling, and she starts going on about how I’m sooo lazy despite the fact I take care of the dogs, clean the kitchen, and help her with things more than my brother or father do. My brother doesn’t do anything to help the house out, has no job, my mom use to use the excuse of him having a job so he wouldn’t have to mow the lawn or even put his dishes in the dishwasher.

Like she was fine before she took the garbage out than she comes inside three minutes later yelling at me and having a fit.

I don’t get mad about it anymore. I use to but I don’t want to end up like them so I’ve been working on being less mad and annoyed. I just say things like “Really, you’re going to scream about the garbage” and ask her why she’s yelling at me over something stupid.

I feel like my parents lack communication skills and how to handle things. Like they’re over 40 years old and they always get super annoyed over the stupidest things.

Is there anything I can do? Or any advice or any input on dealing with my parents?

What the hell am I supposed to have on a resume?

I have NEVER had a job in my life. I’m 17.
How am I supposed to create a resume? I have nothing to put on it.

I’ve volunteered with a friend at a music venue a couple of times working at the concession stands and cleaning the bathrooms. But that was only like 5 times and it was probably almost 4 years ago. I’ve also volunteered at a library working on the computer doing posting for the libraries blog, but that was so boring, that was only about 2 weeks and I decided to stop going cause I hated it, I was only doing it because I had to get community service hours.

I was in an advanced after school drama class, I have no interest in acting, but I was only there to do the stage design cause It seemed fun, that lasted about 2 weeks but then they cancelled it.

I was also into the green group (focuses on recycling, environment, etc.), I went to one of the meetings, but then I just started not caring.

I also went out one time with some ppl during school to go out and pick up trash around the area.

If I put those things on my resume, (leaving the fact that I just stopped volunteering at the library) would they contact those places?

I go to the gym everyday, I do my online high school classes, I love animals, I’m fluent in spanish, I like being around people of different ethnicities, I enjoy pretty looking things, I like helping around the house. Are those things that would matter?

Am I a conservative ……….. ?

I don’t relate with many conservatives of today and I call myself an Independant Constitutionalist. But after reading a little from conservatism long ago,I seem to relate more with those older cons ESPecialy compared to those of today. Here’s how I feel. I would like to reduce some of the jobs of the government. I beleive that federal authority should override state authority much less than they do. I also want to make it a point to add that history show us that bad things happen when certain groups are given either to much or to unique power. I think Gov should crack down on corporations over certain things to keep down greedy manipulation of the masses. I wont detail all that but other than that and the few examples i will give,i tjink that the people,their state and fre enterpriZe should do the rest.I think we need them for certain things like police,security,border control,military. Given the fact that I also think that those example ls of government power should be less in some and more in other areas. For instance,I think our military presence in the world should be reevaluated. To save money and to recycle some of those forces toward our US Mexican border.

How would you ask, implore, people to please?

please stop being so harsh in their judgments, their treatment of you. To please consider that I am 63 years old, I have been through hades. I deserve kindness, good treatment. I deserve to be treated well, not be treated so
harshly. I beg them to let me get out of my apartment and go shopping without getting into my auto. They are killing me by making me stay in.
I beg them to tell me how I am offending them. I am not driving a gas guzzler. As little as I drive my car, I hurt nothing. besides that, I recycle and am thrifty.
I am poor. I do not have the money to give to charity without doing without.
I have no really close friends here, just some acquaintances. I am not putting those few down. I am grateful for small favors. I cannot buy protection money from a church. I cannot afford to tithe. Right now, I am too ill and in too much pain to go to church. i am not able to work. I am scared to death regarding my health, with good reason. I do not want to die. Please please stop harassing me. Stay out of my apartment. Don’t make personal references vaguely.
Be yourself. I came here to never see those people back there again, and hopefully no one who reminded me of them. Please treat me
decently.

I have very few belongings. Most of them were not obtained in the town where I lived before coming here. I am keeping my auto. I bought it when I was
a licensed Professional Capable Competent REgistered Nurse who was
qualified, able and competent to do her job, and did it well. I am sick of the
perfectionists who fall way short. I am sick to death of the self righteous
holier than thou double standards and the straining at a gnat and swallowing a camel.
Where I came from, I was a prisoner., not for real, not deserved. I had committed no crime. Told all I was gay so no man would have any interest in me. I was told where to shop, where to work, where to sit in church, what I could wear, how to wear my hair, what shift to work, etc., etc. I moved. I went where I wanted when I wanted. Of course, I cannot dress the way I want to. I must wear clothes that fit, and I cannot afford new clothes. I cannot. I cannot afford to get my hair done. I will go or not go to church as I please. I am not a church member and have total rejection, for the denomination of which I was previously a member. I will not harm them.
My auto is mine, they did not give me anything, never. I am not, and was not a prostitute. I retain my belief in God and Jesus, but I am not a church member, local or invisible or universal.
took pride in being an RN. I was a good nurse, regardless. You cannot
tell me I was not. I know better I earned my license by hard work and study,
I did not cheat. Stop running me down. Stop attacking my achievements and accomplishments. You know absolutely nothing at all, regardless. State your facts, your source. You don’t know the difference between a medical diagnosis and a nursing diagnosis or what a nursing intervention is. You have no right to stalk, harass, judge or criticize me for that to me unless I can
have a chance to do the same to you.
My children: They were not perfect. No one said they were. Were you treated the way we were. Did you have the abuse, the harassment, the discrimination. Did your Mom get attacked twice due to working?
Did they try to murder your children’s mother for no reason. Could there be a good reason? Did they attack your children’s mother twice? Do they want to be like their mother? Did I do anything to cause these things. No. No more than a rape victim asks to be raped. I did not deserve the diseases you probably gave me here on purpose. I have been treated like a second
class citizen. I have. Don’t say I have not. Yes. I have an apartment.
I have not destroyed it. I have not lied about anything. I lived where I lived outside here, where the cost of living was far less, but wages far far lower
for about twelve years. For about 7 or eight years of that, I lived in a horrible shack which was not fit to live in without running water a lot of the time, wood heat for a good while, no ac or ac that hardly worked at all, no flushing toilett in the winter. I carried water from the spring for a good while. I scrimped and scrimped and scrimped to save money on very little pay and put down payments on my auto and car. I vow that all the money I put down on my auto and home were from cash earnings and not credit card money. I saved at the expense of my teeth, legs, lungs, heart, guts , nervous system. No one had compassion for me. I paid two student loan payments a month, they were not federal. I payed probably thousands of interest on that. I went to a real college, earned a real nursing degree, had a real license and was harassed out of it.
I had to let it go.
Please don’t harass me to death. Please let me live in peace. I am taking no money from your pocket, no job from you. Quite the opposite. I owe no
attorneys here. I

my parents don’t buy me anything?

now, i don’t ask for much – in fact i only need the necessities but even i can’t have those. i need a coat due to cold weather (plus my old coat is 3 years old and worn out – with most of the buttons lost) and when i asked (because there are sales at this time) they said no – yet my mum is going out to buy herself a jumper even though she has way too many clothes/makeup/hair stuff. see, my mom puts her self first because she views it as ‘her money’ even though she has to support me and my siblings and my dad is plain cheap – he will say no to everything just to save money, which i can kinda understand.

my younger brother saves up any money he can get (including lunch) just so he can buy stuff he needs otherwise he won’t get anything – and sometimes my mom even borrows from him. i know my parents are broke at this time, but i help by recycling my stuff and making the most but i feel like i’m treated as if it’s my fault for existing, how my mom always makes me feel guilty for everything – even birthday gifts, when she knows i appreciate them. and last birthday i didn’t even get anything because i didn’t want to be rude.

now before you ask me to get a job, i’ve handed in CVs with no luck so far so i’m going to call them in a couple days and try again so that i can provide for myself.

do you think this is a normal parent and child dynamic? our household is extremely dysfunctional because of my parents and me and my brother have to deal with this all the time.

What would you do when blamed for things that are not your fault at work?

I work at a Chamber of Commerce. There are only two people who work here (my boss and I) and there is a Board of Directors. I take care of all the marketing, including post cards, emails, website and brochures. I made a mistake on a postcard I created for a member of our Board of Directors. I wrote the time for a seminar as PM instead of AM. This was a major mistake because the postcards went out in the mail. I could have sworn that my boss told me to write this, but could didn’t have proof so took the blame. Then I found a note in my recycling bin explaining what to write on the postcard and it said PM (with my bosses handwriting). I have to deal with this person on our BOD a great deal. She talks to me like I am a complete moron. This is compounded by the fact that I made an spelling error once before on a postcard (last year). Now I am making a different postcard for her and she claims she sent me all the information for it. I know she did not because I save all my emails and don’t have it. She thinks I did get it and this is again my error (as if I am prone to mistakes). Should I just let it go? At this point is seems a little silly to throw my boss under the bus, but dealing with a person who talks to me like I am dumb is annoying. I am planning on getting a new job soon anyways.
PS. My rant was a little confusing. It is not my boss that talks to me like I am stupid. It is another woman on our Board of Directors I often have to to marketing brochures for her. I take responsiblity for the spelling error last year. Unfortunately now that she thinks I made another error, she thinks I constantly make mistakes (which I don’t).
PS. My rant was a little confusing. It is not my boss that talks to me like I am stupid. It is another woman on our Board of Directors I often have to to marketing brochures for her. I take responsiblity for the spelling error last year. Unfortunately now that she thinks I made another error, she thinks I constantly make mistakes (which I don’t).

Night Watchman?

A man got a job as a night watchman at a factory. There had been a lot of thefts by the workers on the night shift, and so every morning when the night shift workers passed through his gate it was his job to check their bags and pockets to make sure that nothing was being stolen.

Things were going along very well the first night on the job until a man pushing a wheelbarrow of newspapers came through the gate. Aha, he thought, that man thinks he can cover up what he is stealing with that newspaper. So he removed the paper only to find nothing. Still he felt that the man was acting strangley, so he questioned him about the paper.

“I get a little extra money from newspapers I recycle, so I go into the lunchroom and pick up all the ones people have thrown away.” The guard let him pass, but decided to keep a close eye on him. The next night it was the same, and the night after that. Week after week it went on. The same guy would push the wheelbarrow of newspapers past the guard’s checkpoint. The guard would always check and find nothing.

Then one night, about a year later, the guard reported for work only to find a message had been left for him telling him to report to the supervisor. He walked into the supervisor’s office and before he could say a word, the boss said, “You’re fired!”

“Fired?” he asked in total surprise. “Why? What did I do?”

“It was your job to make sure that no one stole anything from this plant and you have failed. So you’re fired.”

“Wait a minute, what do you mean failed. Nobody ever stole anything from this place while I was on guard.”

“Oh, really,” the boss answered. “Then how do you count for the fact that there are 365 wheelbarrows missing?”

Do You Think Julia Gillard is John Howard in Drag?

Do You Think Julia Gillard is John Howard in Drag?

Further to Julia Gillard is John Howard in Drag may I ask Who wants to see Gillard as pro-Israel and anti-Islam?

A regular reader of this site sent this on, exact source unknown, but certainly speaks for itself.

The ALP and Israel is like a disease that no medicine can cure

Australian unionist Paul Howes loves Israel. He supports its criminality, murder of opponents, defends it from everybody and would ideally like to make love to the Jewish state. He’s also one of the key figures behind the recent coup of Julia Gillard when overthrowing Kevin Rudd.

Welcome to the modern Australian Labor Party, where Israel is a state religion.
His column in yesterday’s Sunday Telegraph is a typical rant that conveniently forgets to mention that one of Australia’s leading Zionist lobbyists, Albert Dadon, is actually an Israeli lobbyist. He wields influence but of course we can’t mention this. Furthermore, Howes doesn’t want to see that there is a profound conflict of influence with the Prime Minister’s partner working for a Zionist lobbyist who is trying to affect government policy towards the Middle East. But of course for some, anything related to the Jewish state is beyond criticism. Fat chance:

It hasn’t taken long for the double standards to emerge, in the week since our first female Prime Minister took office.

While it’s significant that Julia Gillard is our first female PM, what’s really significant is how long it took us to get there.

I’m writing this column in the Sydney CBD, where we have a female Lord Mayor and State member, and female federal MP, a female Premier and a female Governor.

In Canberra, there’s a female Governor General and – at last – a female PM. With the exception of the dual-Lord Mayor/Member for Bligh, all these women are, or were appointed by, Labor.

The Liberal Party, on the other hand, is so bereft of female talent that they’ve recycled Julie Bishop as deputy leader three times for different leaders, despite the fact that she’s not considered competent enough to hold the shadow Treasury portfolio.

But the progressive side of politics has always championed women. In my own role as a union official, we have had female leaders of the Australian Council of Trade Unions since 1996, with the newest president, Ged Kearney, taking office in the past week.

She replaces Sharan Burrow, who has been elected as the head of the global trade union movement.

Yet we’ve already seen double standards being applied to our new PM with significant media coverage of Prime Minister Gillard’s hair, clothes, voice and domestic arrangements.

The Melbourne Age carried a front-page story last week about the employment status of the Prime Minister’s partner, Tim Mathieson.

He works as a salesman for a Melbourne property company, chaired by Albert Dadon, prominent in the local Jewish community.

The article implied that, somehow, because Mr Mathieson works for a company associated with a Jewish community member, this would somehow impact on the PM’s stance on foreign policy, particularly in relation to her views on Israel.

It was one of the crassest examples of shoddy journalism I’ve seen. The implication was, firstly, that because Mr Mathieson is a man and the PM a woman, whatever he thinks about the world or who he works for will impact on what Ms Gillard thinks.

The second implication was that, simply because Mr Mathieson works for a company owned by a prominent Jew, his personal views on policy matters will be skewed by his job.

One Canberra press gallery journalist summed it up best on Twitter when he said: “I can’t ever recall a male politician being the subject of claims his wife’s job would influence his views on the Middle East.”

He was spot on, summing up in one sentence the appalling double standards applied to Prime Minister Gillard in the article. In fact, outrage over the article was so intense that even former Age editor Michael Gawenda labelled it “bizarre”.

Mr Mathieson’s employer, apart from being Jewish, is a well-known jazz musician and was chairman of the Melbourne Jazz Festival.

Following the logic of The Age’s article, one could presume that our nation’s leader will redirect the Government’s arts funding solely towards the Australian jazz industry.

Ludicrous, isn’t it? Just as ludicrous as saying that the PM is going to toe some pro-Israel line simply because of who her partner works for. It’s the type of double standards and sexist reporting that belongs in the past.

Julia Gillard has shown she is her own person. It doesn’t matter what her hair looks like. I don’t think anyone is really interested in how she dresses. It doesn’t matter who her partner works for or what their living arrangements are.

What matters is that she’s the best pe
What matters is that she’s the best person for the job and light years ahead of Tony Abbott when it comes to understanding the needs of ordinary Australians. Yes, she’s different from her predecessors, but just like Kevin Rudd, John Howard, Paul Keating and Bob Hawke, she is her own person.
Any suggestion that her partner’s views, or her hairstyle, has any bearing on how she runs the country is laughable at best, sexist at worst.

Paul Howes is national secretary of the Australian Workers’ Union
For more: http://911andmanyunansweredquestions.blogspot.com/2010/07/julia-gillard-is-john-howard-in-drag.htm