Storytime Tapestry Newsletter

The newsletter devoted to spreading love and cultural awareness around the world.

April 22, 2008

 Today’s Announcement

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 tell them it would help support the newsletter and they can earn money from it. They need to sign up and install it but they don't need to do anything else. They just do what they normally would anyways on the net and they earn money while it’s on. In other words they just keep it running while they are online. It’s small doesn't take up much system resources and they can earn more if they advertise their own link and get people under them as well. Let them know some people make 5-10$ a day on it and its been open since 2002. 

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Sometimes

Lynn Stevenson

Sometimes life just doesn't work out like you planned. No matter how much you plan or prepare for somethings, the outcome is never quite what you expect. I have often heard the expression "God laughs when you make other plans." I have recently come to believe this is so. 

      After years of attending colleges sporadically, I finally graduated with my BA degree. Now I am in the process of attempting to pay off some bills and save some money for graduate school, hopefully at one day in the not too distant future. The economy where I live is so bad that there is no way I can make a viable living with merely an undergraduate degree.

      Recently I have come to the conclusion that the only jobs I can get at this point are with idiots who have very little or no people skills and are so paranoid that someone wants their job, they talk down to everyone and make them feel less than inadequate. Most of the people I work with never finished high school and it scares them to think that I came in off of the street with a BA degree making more than they do and could do their jobs much better than they do, except for the fact that they have many more years of seniority with the company.

      What really disappoints me is the fact that I worked previously with this company for nine years and had to quit after my mother died in order to take care of my father. I had a really great work record with them until now. Every time I turn around, my immediate "supervisor" is making snide remarks about "keeping me out of trouble" when I don't do anything wrong. She has a bad habit of talking about people and it makes her furious when I walk off and refuse to discuss them behind their backs. I know she has said enough about me behind my back to cause problems and I try to stay clear when I have to work with her. She has been with the company for 17 years and was given her job of authority after everyone else either quit or was fired. She surely doesn't have the personality or people skills to be in a supervisory position. She also dropped out of high school in the either the 10th or 11th grades and resents anyone who has a college degree. 

     There are the two cronies of this aforementioned person who are also on my "short tolerance list." One has been with the company for about 7 years and has been somehow placed in the number 2 position. She has gotten up in my face twice attempting to start things in front of my cashiers and customers and I have managed to walk away. When I know she is trying to bait me into an argument, I walk away from her, making her furious. For someone unknown reason, she seems to get off on embarrassing me in front of people and one day I know coming soon, I will not be able to walk away and will most likely become unemployed, after she gets what is coming to her.

      The latest incident happened last week when one of my cashiers came up to me and wanted to know which register I wanted her to get on. Since I was in the middle of making change orders for three different registers and wasn't really paying attention, I told her to pick one, that I didn't care. This other person came screaming at me about two hours later and wanted to know why I put her beside one of her friends. Since I had no idea that they were supposed to be separated, I told her that no, that I had not talked to the other girl involved, but I had talked to the one who asked and I had not seen any problem at the time. She huffed off as I was making change orders for two other cashiers and I didn't see her again for the rest of the night. 

      "Miss Thing" number three has made my son furious. This girl is about 24 years old and is considered to be white trash. She tries to dress and speak like an uneducated black person and makes a point of discussing her "baby daddy" and the fact that they have four children together. She is constantly talking on her cell phone and tries to make herself a whole lot more important than she is. One night my son and his girlfriend drove over there looking for me at work, on a night when I was off. This same person loudly announced to my son in front of customers and cashiers that "Hell no, she doesn't work here." Then she proceeded to put her finger in my son's face and roll her eyes at him. He said it took everything he had not to slap her down right there in the front of the store.

      It is a shame that people can't be mature adults in a working environment. The management team there isn't any better. If it wasn't for the Affirmative Action program, half of them would have been Welfare mothers with eight illegitimate children by eight different men, living off of the government. They act like it would kill them to speak to anyone respectably, and they treat everyone as if they were three years old.

      I have begun a new job search and hope to find something else soon. On one of the applications I submitted online, I wrote that I wanted to work in an environment where I was appreciated as a mature adult and not treated as a three year old child. I had parents already and I don't think I need any substitutes or additional ones, especially ones who don't have a clue themselves. 

Lynn Stevenson

Poetry Corner

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Passover Joy

Cynthia Groopman

Passover is crowned with triumphant joy,

For the harsh slavery and tyranny, God through miracles did destroy.

The red sea, God did part,

As the Israelites crossed over with a renewed soul and freedom in their heart.

Majestic miracles, God did perform, as the children of Israel were set free,

 For Passover is full of great rejoicing and festivity.

In the seder service, the story of the Exodus is told in a grateful way

So future generations will forever know and cherish this special freedom day..

Special food we savor and eat,

Indeed a meal of flors and delightful treats..

Family and friends we do invite and our food with them we do lovingly share,

As we thank God in loving happiness prayer.

 Cynthia Groopmancynthia.Groopman@verizon.net  ~**~**~    Never Look Back
Cynthia Groopman

Never look back,And mourn and grieve over life's sorrows and sad attack.Never look back with regrets and misgivings of the past,Because  misfortune and hopelessness,
Like the winter snows do not perpetually last.Never look back with emotions of disappointment and dismay,Because your mind and heart will be filled with peace and serenity,
When you pray.Never look back with fear and trepidation,For optimism is smiling at you clothed in a glowing sky of zest, energy and elation.For God is always part of everyday of our life,Caressing us with reassurance and comfort that will triumph,
Over desperation and strife.
Cynthia Groopmancynthia.Groopman@verizon.net 
    

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