Real life parallel with Time Chasers

[ilmatto]

Has anyone been reading the news about the company American Private Police Force, who recently entered Hardin Montana in black Mercedes SUVs. They announced that they intended to take over an empty local prison and start hiring local residents. One of the first people they hired was local newspaper reporter Becky Shay.

www.kulr8.com/home/related/62755172.html

I thought this affair was very similar to Time Chasers when the evil CEO offers local reporter Lisa Two-Plaid a job to keep her from filing unflattering reports about their takeover, and she delivers the best line in the whole movie, "who said you were the right hands."

Well anyway, the real life Lisa Two-Plaid took the job. Since APPF started getting bad press, now there are new stories titled, "The Tragedy of Becky Shay".

[The Mad Plumber]

There's a quote from the cartoon series Gargoyles that I like that goes, "Pay a man enough, and he'll walk barefoot into Hell."

Having quit a few jobs with little notice, I'd like to talk a little about chasing money. The first white collar job I ever got was some time after I quit my student assistant job at the college. It was working at a civil engineering firm doing AutoCAD detailing for around $8.50 to $9.00 an hour. It's not an exciting job, but it's better than digging storm drains for the college's lazy grounds crew. Eventually, when my superiors started to become aware of my proficiency with Microsoft Excel, they also tasked me with developing applications to help expedite tasks such as catch basin calculations. I was told that my work helped cut hundreds of hours out of production time ... and yet I never saw one dime of the money I saved. In fact, despite the supposed "time saved", one of my superiors mentioned cutting my hours.

Before I began working for the engineering firm, I had signed up for the pipefitter apprenticeship program when it was apparent that my accounting training was not paying off. So, when I surprising got a call that my number came up with the apprenticeship and that I would get paid better even just as an apprentice, I took the job. Unfortunately, despite all I put up with and that I showed up everyday for work and even did overtime, I got kicked out eight weeks into the program ... by a man who spent three years in prison for arson.

After nearly a year of unemployment, I ended up crawling back to the college. This time, however, it was a different administration in the maintenance department and the director preferred that I work on getting the department set up to a computer system. So, at minimum wage for 20 to 35 hours a week, I provided the advanced computer services for the maintenance department that their own full-time secretary couldn't provide ... and I still had to pay tuition to work there. Furthermore, after having been a student at the college for eight years, an employee for three, already having a skeleton key for the college, and knowing the college better than the president, they still wouldn't give me a full-time job.

I made no secret my search for a full-time job, and when another engineering firm called me out of the blue, I took it up and quite the college on the fly. They paid me much better than the first engineering firm and even desired that I pull overtime for various projects. Unfortunately, I was unaware that everyone in my department was only there for less than a year and that the job was only temporary. Three months later, I was out.

Do I regret my decisions? I have to say "no" because, given the opportunity again, I would take it. I would have stayed working at the college had they given me a full-time job instead of exploiting me a student assistant for more labor than they've paid for. Sometimes, I kick myself for my decisions because they never seemed to pay off, but they were the best decisions at the time and I made them.

In the "Frank's TV" folder, I brought up a thread talking about people that embarrass themselves on television, and I was forced to conclude that it must be for the money. For one to pass judgment on another for his or her actions, you neglect to consider how you would act were you presented with the same opportunities and problems.

[pyrozombie]

.......

wow.

I'm out of a job, usually I'm the guy with a incredible insight into the human mind(but for whatever reason, My bulb seems to dim here).

Thanks you for bringing a masterful insight into the human psyche, and for single-handedly making me feel silent.

[hopesfall]

Opportunity kills common sense.

[Crowfan]

I'd just be happy with reenactors taking over the world.

[doctorz]

Nov 4, 2009 18:50:34 GMT -5 Crowfan said:

I'd just be happy with reenactors taking over the world.

Oh great. Take it from one who knows. Most reenactors are heavily armed conservative crusaders. Not a world I'd want to live in.