You know what’s crazy? I’ll tell you what’s crazy.
People getting paid to do their jobs badly. Last time I checked, unemployment lines were long enough to circle the Earth two times.
If you have a job today, then shut up, be grateful and work your ass off! Then on your first work authorized break, take a moment to thank Jesus and blow a kiss to Allah in thanks because in today’s economy, jobs are harder to find than an Indian Motel manager not named Patel.
In today’s society, people should be happy to have a job. In today’s society people should be afraid not to do their jobs exceptionally well because there is always someone lurking over their shoulder that can take their place. In today’s society people should be alert and awake and looking for ways to improve their performance.
And yet, we have people employed in this country who are taking up space, and getting paid to do a job they neither do well nor deserve. American workers are sleep walking while collecting a check. The level of ineptitude has risen to the level of a Tom and Jerry cartoon.
Mediocre job performance is always an issue. But how hard you suck is relative. If you clean floors in a wax museum it’s a yawner. If you extract donut holes from donuts, nobody is going to call the cops if the donuts are “unholed”
But if you suck at your job and your job is to guide a 747 down from 28,000 feet onto a narrow landing strip, then sucking at your job might get a lot of people dead.
A recent Fox News report cites a “whistle blower” – a former air traffic controller who came forward claiming that his fellow work mates were asleep at the wheel, literally.
The unnamed source claims that some of his air traffic control brethren were actually playing video games when they should have been doing their jobs, jobs that could spell the difference between uneventful and calamity.
Any air traffic controller playing Pong while they should be watching their radar screen is a danger to society. If you are playing Super Mario Bros instead of making sure my family’s 737 stays free of fire and concussive force, then you sir are a douche bag.
Union reps for the Air Traffic Controllers say the charges are unfounded citing the amazing number of safe take offs and landings without a major incident.
But according to the whistle blower who has come forward, some of these ATC’s are playing Donkey Kong and down loading the latest iphone apps instead of doing their jobs.
They say one bad apple spoils the whole bunch. In this case one idiot ATC can destroy lives.
I wish I knew who these guys were so I could drop kick their scrotum into their collective dungeons and dragons playing throat.
What ever happened to pride in this country? When did integrity take a freaking detour into the cess pool of indolence and who gives a crap?
American Workers use to be the bench mark, the gold standard. Now, I’m not so sure. Made in the USA use to mean something. It was a badge of honor. Made by the Red White and Blue. You knew that it was made by a human who cared, who would go the extra mile to create a product, to deliver a service that was second to none.
Now I think Americans would rather take a smoke break and facebook each other than do their jobs.
Misery loves company would seem to be the new American Work Force Anthem.
Remember when made in Japan was a joke?
Now it’s the other way around. Made in America means made by people who feel that life owes them something. Americans don’t realize they live in the greatest country on Earth. They have become fat lazy and stupid which is evident by simply watching Jay Leno ask regular Americans questions your third grader is learning in school.
American workers forget that this country was forged on the greatness of the generations who preceeded them. Americans who worked hard and cared about what they produced.
Now Americans believe it is their unalienable right to have a flat screen tv. If I’m an American, I must have 500 channels of high def tv. How come we don’t get the NFL channel. Boo freakin Hoo!
Just the idea that some dude thinks it is OK to watch youtube asleep at the wheel in a control tower makes me want to go down to the FAA and beat someone’s ass.
I literally want to rip the hinges off one of those control tower doors, storm the stairs and start kicking the crap out of every pencil pushing, eye glass wearing geek who isn’t nose deep in a radar screen moving aircraft safely from one fly zone to the next.
It’s a story about sorry ass humans who should do their jobs with integrity, especially when my life is in their hands. Instead, they take their job for granted, as if it doesn’t matter that two planes are on the same collision course.
We’re not flipping eggs sunny side up on a grill at Denny’s here. We’re not screwing caps on toothpaste here. We’re not cutting the grass in the median at the supermarket here people.
We’re talking 500 people going 500 miles an hour and smashing into the Earth.
Dead!
Playing video games when you should be directing aircraft is like combing your hair with razor blades. It’s a terrible idea that is eventually going to spill blood in your eyes.
I hope that this whistle blower’s story gets people fired. If I find out that an air traffic controller was sexting some fat wench instead of guiding an aircraft safely, I hope his ass is kicked to the curb. I hope he is spray painted red and then beaten by a gay motor cycle gang reacting badly to the latest don’t ask don’t tell policy.
Take pride in your job America. I don’t care if you wipe elderly asses, brew coffee at Starbucks, or calculate interest on a high yield investment for Prudential, do it with pride. Give it your all.
Remember; this is America. We still stand for something. It still means something to be paid for an honest day’s wage for an honest day’s work.
Red White and Blue means stand up and kick ass and know that you stand for something greater than yourself.
We’re the United States of America. She don’t owe you a damn thing. It’s you who owe her.
And that is crazy!