DEAR AMERICAN:
I NEED TO ASK YOU TO SUPPORT AN URGENT SECRET BUSINESS RELATIONSHIP WITH A TRANSFER OF FUNDS OF GREAT MAGNITUDE.
I AM MINISTRY OF THE TREASURY OF THE REPUBLIC OF AMERICA. MY COUNTRY HAS HAD CRISIS THAT HAS CAUSED THE NEED FOR LARGE TRANSFER OF FUNDS OF 800 BILLION DOLLARS US. IF YOU WOULD ASSIST ME IN THIS TRANSFER, IT WOULD BE MOST PROFITABLE TO YOU.
The rest is here.
Further to my comments about my exit interview, that person also suggest a certain organisation that he thought I would benefit from. I struggled not to laugh out loud. Of course! Immediately, a lot of things about this guy started to make sense.
One of our project guys took this picture in Brunei, presumably at an airport.
Camden Council opposes Islamic school development
Pauline Hanson had this to say:
“Every school in Australia is Christian apart from the Islamic schools. I have no understanding of what they teach in the Islamic school, do you?” Ms Hanson asked.
Are we surprised that she has “no understanding”? I'm not. And as I remember, my public primary school was not Christian, it was secular.
This bigot had the lion share of jaw-dropping quotes from the ABC TV article:
“Our democratic rights are being taken away. We just don't want [muslims] here. Not only in Camden, we dont want them in Australia. [All their countries] are dictatorships, they want to rule our world.”
Some other mind-bogglingly stupid comments.
“We're not bigots, we have the right to express our opinion.”
You have the right to express your opinion, if you are express a bigoted opinion, you are a bigot.
“My kids don't speak Arabic, so they cant go to this church. Next thing you know there'll be a mosque, then a little town … it's not right. It's totally not appropriate for the area.”
I'm not catholic, but I don't have a problem with Catholic churches, even if they continue to fuck young boys.
“I'm not saying all Muslims are bad. They are not all bad, but their teaching is.”
That's like saying: “The people of Camden aren't all bad, but they are all crack-whores”
ABC Reporter: Why are you wearing an Australia flag?
Bigot: Why not? Why shouldn't I? Why is the ABC against Australia?
Google turned up some more depressing bigotry from some small-minded douchebags:
The pigs’ heads, planted on wooden stakes on the Camden site, with the Australian flag draped between them, are believed to be in protest of the Muslim school proposal.
Found here. My response to that
Why is it that alot of people confuse “secular” with “Christian”? Would they appose a Buddhist Temple?
Why is OK for you to be an idiot, but not OK for me to recognise it?
Brooklyn family court employee: What's your daughter's name?
Mother: Chicago.
Brooklyn family court employee: Like the state?
Mother: Yes.
From Overheard in NYC
… it proves that America generates fear of the world, from it's fear of its own people.
The fact that there are assassination fears shows that American's are afraid of themselves – meaning that those who hate Obama are feared by those who like him and what he stands for.
People tend to project their own values onto others by expecting from them no better than they expect from themselves.
If they are afraid that someone will pop Obama, its not hard to understand why they are afraid of Mexicans and Europeans.
It's almost like they're saying:
“We can protect you from the evils that we tricked you into believing”.
Little boy: Who's Buddha?
Grandfather: He's the Jesus of China.
OverHeardInNewYork
Earlier
When should common sense take priority over policy? Then there is money involved? Maybe only when there is more than $100 involved?
How about when its obvious that there aren't enough people to do the work scheduled, but there is no way to prove it according to the policy?
Maybe when entire departments are crumbling and there are no senior technical people or salesman left to represent entire region business areas?
Apparently none of these are true. The answer, according to the Spanish overlords is that policy is always right, no matter what.
Case in point #1
Just a few weeks ago, the purchasing and finance departments decide that all change orders will incure an extra 5% admin charge, without question, across the board, no exceptions. Now, everything from purchasing a mouse pad, or a 1 million dollar sub-contract carries an additional 5% charge.
Weird, but who cares.
Who cares? The project managers managing existing 8 year-old projects in the Middle East, who now have to turn to their sub contractors and say that they will receive 5% less. Or maybe they go to the customer and say “our purchasing department needs 5% to process these invoices, so you need to pay us an extra 5%”. Chaos and jihads ensue.
Case in point #2
The finance department cannot approve an invoice for a sub-contrator in the same 8 year-old project, because the contract did not get the correct approval signatures. So what you say, just get the right sigantures. First of all, there are 8 of them needed. Yep, 8. Second of all, some of these sigantures come from idiots in Spain who have no idea about anything, and who regularilty deny requests such as these. And the maddening thing is that these sub-contracts have been in place since way before we were even bought! And the sub-contract as it stands would never be approved, because the fucking polices have changed anyway!
Good fucking damn this company is fucked!